Online open Evening for Balliol College Access programmes for year 12 State School Students.
Résumé
TLDRThe presentation introduces academic programs at Bayal College designed for year 12 students from state schools in the UK, focusing on humanities, sciences, and mathematics through three distinct programs: Florat, Frontier, and Fibonacci. Florat is humanities-based and covers a wide range of subjects, including history and philosophy, while the Frontier program focuses on life sciences, such as biology and medicine. The Fibonacci program is centered on mathematics, also suitable for students interested in engineering or physics. All programs are free and offer online seminars, which require preparatory work. Successful candidates also attend a residential session where they experience tutorials akin to those at Oxford University, participate in various activities, and explore the campus. The programs aim to provide an insight into university-level learning and are open to students passionate about their subjects and able to commit time to additional academic work. Participants must not be engaged in another sustained contact program to focus fully on this opportunity. Past student reviews highlight the programs' community benefits, interaction with likeminded peers, and the helpfulness of the residential and tutorial experiences. For application, students should consult the website, discuss with parents and teachers, and ensure they meet the criteria for their chosen program. Additionally, multiple enrichment activities are mentioned, such as subject taster days and competitions, which can aid personal statements for university applications.
A retenir
- 🧠 Florat focuses on humanities subjects including history and philosophy.
- 🔬 Frontier offers a deep dive into life sciences, covering subjects like biology and biochemistry.
- 📐 Fibonacci is tailored for those interested in mathematics and related fields.
- 🎓 Programs are designed for Year 12 students in UK state schools to prepare for university-level education.
- 🆓 All programs are free, inclusive of materials and residential accommodation.
- 🔄 Participants should not be enrolled in another sustained contact program to ensure commitment.
- 🌐 Interactive online seminars require preparatory work and active participation.
- 🏫 The residential phase replicates the Oxford tutorial system, enhancing learning experiences.
- 📚 Students will benefit from networking with peers and gaining insights into university life.
- 🗓 Applications follow from the presentation, with necessary consultations for eligibility.
Chronologie
- 00:00:00 - 00:05:00
Pahi ønsker alle velkommen til Bayal College online-og forteller om tre programmer florat, Frontier, og Fibonacci. Hun forklarer hva hver av dem fokuserer på og hvordan de er strukturert, inkludert tidsforpliktelser, kostnader og hva deltakere kan oppnå etter å ha fullført dem. Hun presenterer også medhjelperen Jack og gir en oversikt over kvelden.
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Pahi fremhever betydningen av å delta aktivt i programmene for å få en reell følelse av undervisningen ved Oxford. Programmene er designet for å hjelpe studenter til å bli mer komfortable med ideen om å studere ved et toppuniversitet og er kuratering til å inkludere variasjon i innhold uten å overlappe med A-nivåstoff.
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Programmene er supercurricular, og ikke laget for å duplicere skoleinnhold, men å utvide perspektiver. Deltakere lærer av universitetslærere og drar nytte av et støttende nettverk av likesinnede. Den sosiale siden er fremtredende, og det er ikke en 'bakdør' til en plass ved universitetet.
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Med fokus på Pahi's kall for ekte læringslidenskap, understreker hun viktigheten av innstilling og tilgjengelighet til å bære gjennom kursforpliktelsene. Hun oppfordrer bare de som kan forplikte seg fullt ut til programmene om å søke.
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Florat-programmet dekker humaniora gjennom et bredt spekter av temaer, inkludert historie, juss og økonomi. Frontier fokuserer på vitenskap, med moduler innen biologi og bioengineering. Fibonacci er math-basert, med muligheter for å utforske anvendt matematikk.
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Programbeskrivelser fortsetter, hvor hver av programmene har spesifikke ukentlige forpliktelsestimer, begynner på vårterminen. Det er også spesielle introduksjonsmøter, og programmene forbereder studenter på valg av fagtutorial og setter klare forventninger til deltakelse.
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Pahi forklarer om residenstiden, hvor studentene kan bo ved universitetet, delta på seminarer og få praktisk erfaring. Dette inkluderer også workshop og turer på campus. De som deltar bør bare søke til ett program, basert på deres A-nivåer og interesser.
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Deltakerne forventes å gjøre forberedelser for hvert seminar, inkludert å bruke ekstra tid uker å fordype seg i materialet. Pahi legger vekt på viktigheten av å kommunisere med lærere og planlegge godt for å sikre suksess både i programmer og A-nivåer.
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Tidligere deltakere delte positive erfaringer fra deres deltakelse, og beskrev det som en gylden mulighet til å møte folk med lignende interesser og å utvide horisonter. Dette styrker følelsen av fellesskap og akademisk vekst.
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Q&A med studenter og fakultet hvor tidligere deltakere reflekterer over arbeidsmengde og muligheter. Diskusjoner om hvordan man balanserer deltidsstudier og programmene fremheves, og gir innsikt i hva fremtidige deltakere kan forvente.
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Avslutning med takknemlighet til deltakerne og en oppfordring til å reflektere før de sender inn søknader. Pahi minner deltakere på viktigheten av å forstå programmets krav og unngå overforpliktelser.
Carte mentale
Vidéo Q&R
What subjects does the Florat program focus on?
Florat focuses on humanities, covering subjects like English, history, and philosophy.
What is the content focus of the Frontier program?
The Frontier program is science-based, focusing on life sciences.
What is the focus of the Fibonacci program?
The Fibonacci program is math-based and suitable for students considering math-related degrees.
Are the programs free?
Yes, all programs are free, including materials and residential accommodations.
Who can apply for these programs?
The programs are designed for year 12 or S5 students in state schools in the UK.
Can I participate if I'm enrolled in another sustained contact program?
No, participants should not be enrolled in another sustained contact program to ensure commitment.
How are the online seminars structured?
Participants will have interactive online seminars, with materials provided for preparatory work.
How can I apply for the programs?
Applications open after this presentation, with forms available online. They are open to discussion with parents and teachers.
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- 00:00:10good evening and welcome to bayal
- 00:00:13College online uh tonight you are going
- 00:00:16to hear about three of our sustained
- 00:00:19contact programs called florat Frontier
- 00:00:23and
- 00:00:24fibon um first of all I just introduce
- 00:00:27myself my name is pahi and I'm run all
- 00:00:30the programs um with the assistance of
- 00:00:34my colleague Jack who you can see on the
- 00:00:36top of the screen at the
- 00:00:40moment so we might have people joining
- 00:00:43late and we will just allow them to join
- 00:00:47as they do uh I'm just going to ask Jack
- 00:00:51are you able to see the slide on the
- 00:00:53screen can you just let me know yeah
- 00:00:56absolutely fine lovely okay so the
- 00:00:59format of this evening is that we will
- 00:01:02give you quite a chunk of information
- 00:01:05about the three programs so that will
- 00:01:08involve learning about what each of them
- 00:01:11focus on in terms of content how they
- 00:01:14are structured the time commitment
- 00:01:18involved uh costs what people have gone
- 00:01:21on to do from them so I have uh muted
- 00:01:27your microphones and please don't touch
- 00:01:30the slides either this is being recorded
- 00:01:35um and we're doing that so that people
- 00:01:38who are arriving late or who haven't
- 00:01:40been able to get here tonight are able
- 00:01:43to see the recording and so you can go
- 00:01:46back on have a look at what's talked
- 00:01:49about right so um after we've talked
- 00:01:53about all our I'm just going to ask
- 00:01:56anyone who's got their microphone on to
- 00:01:58please mute
- 00:02:00it and I'm going to ask people not to
- 00:02:04touch the slides either okay so we can
- 00:02:09all um just get on
- 00:02:20the R I think you're muted
- 00:02:24there sorry think I for some reason I
- 00:02:26was muted there you are also going to
- 00:02:28have an opportunity toar here from
- 00:02:30students who've been on the program this
- 00:02:33year and also to ask any questions at
- 00:02:37the end so on the first slide you've got
- 00:02:40some pictures on a glorious summer day
- 00:02:42which came from one of our
- 00:02:45residentials and uh you can see that
- 00:02:47we've got a large group photo that's
- 00:02:50like the whole of one program about 40
- 00:02:53odd people there and then a closeup
- 00:02:56slide you know we get always have
- 00:02:58beautiful weather at Bor for these res
- 00:03:01presidentials
- 00:03:12uh you're muted again Prov I'm not sure
- 00:03:15why that keeps
- 00:03:17happening right keep letting me know
- 00:03:19Jack I don't know why that's doing that
- 00:03:22uh so just to say it's really important
- 00:03:25to consider the content of the programs
- 00:03:28because there may be different options
- 00:03:30there may be more than one option
- 00:03:35for gone on mute again uh there may be
- 00:03:38more than one option according to the a
- 00:03:41level choices that you actually
- 00:03:43do um and there might be particular
- 00:03:47subjects that are more in more than one
- 00:03:49of the programs so that's something else
- 00:03:51to
- 00:03:55consider so just a bit of background
- 00:03:58information about this college then so
- 00:04:00this college is over 750 years old and
- 00:04:04actually we were the college that
- 00:04:06pioneered the idea of coming to Oxford
- 00:04:09on Merit rather than to do with
- 00:04:11associations or your school background
- 00:04:14Etc we do have particular links with
- 00:04:18schools in different areas of the
- 00:04:20country and they're currently
- 00:04:21hartfordshire Norfolk suffk and Scotland
- 00:04:25but just to say really importantly these
- 00:04:28programs are open to you from any area
- 00:04:32of the country and we do have students
- 00:04:34from Scotland and Wales on these
- 00:04:37programs as
- 00:04:39well so why do we why do we bother
- 00:04:43spending the time and money sort of
- 00:04:45running on these programs there um first
- 00:04:49of all we know that there are a lot of
- 00:04:51able students out there who have the
- 00:04:54potential to thrive at Oxford but are
- 00:04:57put off it for some reason that could be
- 00:05:00you're just not feeling confident enough
- 00:05:02or someone's told you something about
- 00:05:05Oxford that makes you feel you wouldn't
- 00:05:08belong there so what we've decided to do
- 00:05:12with these programs is give you an
- 00:05:14exposure first to the kind of level of
- 00:05:18teaching you would get as a first year
- 00:05:21undergraduate um to experience the type
- 00:05:25of teaching can I just ask you all to
- 00:05:28mute your microphone
- 00:05:30please if you haven't done already so we
- 00:05:33want to expose you to the level and the
- 00:05:35type of teaching that You' get and
- 00:05:39that's why with this program the
- 00:05:42commitment is important because you will
- 00:05:44have to
- 00:05:51do the idea of doing the work to prepare
- 00:05:54for sessions kind of mirrors what would
- 00:05:56actually happen at Oxford so it's
- 00:05:58important that you you have that
- 00:06:01experience we also know from experience
- 00:06:04and research that people who've had the
- 00:06:08opportunity to come to the environment
- 00:06:11and experience the teaching are much
- 00:06:13more likely to apply because you feel
- 00:06:16less nervous having gone through it and
- 00:06:19particularly gaining from the tutorial
- 00:06:22so it's the sustained contact in
- 00:06:24particular right throughout the program
- 00:06:26through the tour online sessions and
- 00:06:30then the residential at the end that
- 00:06:32seems to work best in terms of
- 00:06:34encouraging people to feel at home and
- 00:06:37to go on and apply so we'll dig into the
- 00:06:41detail in a moment but just to be clear
- 00:06:44about a few things so these programs are
- 00:06:48super curricular so they are beyond the
- 00:06:51classroom learning so what they're not
- 00:06:55is they're not going to duplicate any a
- 00:06:58level content content that you might be
- 00:07:00getting in school or IB if you're doing
- 00:07:03that obviously they might make links to
- 00:07:05it or develop a topic at a higher level
- 00:07:07but they they're not there to repeat
- 00:07:09what you're already
- 00:07:11doing um what they should be doing I
- 00:07:14think is encouraging you to go and
- 00:07:16explore further on your own giving you
- 00:07:19ideas it might be things to go and read
- 00:07:21on your own
- 00:07:26or you're muted again provide I'm not
- 00:07:29sure we got a way of sort of changing
- 00:07:30the settings quickly to stop that cuz I
- 00:07:32think someone must be muting
- 00:07:35you um I'm just going to carry on Jack
- 00:07:38and you can you can have a look around
- 00:07:40if someone's stupid enough to do that I
- 00:07:42don't know why they'd be bothering
- 00:07:43attending so please please don't please
- 00:07:46actually respect what's going on
- 00:07:49here um you're going to be taught by
- 00:07:52people who are involved in undergraduate
- 00:07:56teaching so they might be teaching first
- 00:07:59is they might be involved in the
- 00:08:01admissions process they might be our
- 00:08:04actual tutors as well and the other
- 00:08:07thing that you're going to benefit
- 00:08:10from is the network so the other people
- 00:08:14who join the program benefiting from a
- 00:08:17network of support from people with sort
- 00:08:19of similar uh Ambitions you know maybe
- 00:08:23there's no one else in your school who's
- 00:08:25thinking about Oxford or Cambridge it's
- 00:08:28you're not compe meeting with each other
- 00:08:30you're there to support each other and
- 00:08:33we have about 40 places on each
- 00:08:39program what you have to bear in mind is
- 00:08:43that you know if you have put on your
- 00:08:45personal statement that you've taken
- 00:08:47part in one of these programs it's not a
- 00:08:49kind of back door or um you know that
- 00:08:52means I'm going to get a place the point
- 00:08:55is you'll have had an experience of what
- 00:08:57the teaching and learning is like but
- 00:09:00it's not necessarily going to mean that
- 00:09:02your application would be more favorable
- 00:09:05and if you do write about your
- 00:09:06experience you need to really focus on
- 00:09:08the learning that you've done in terms
- 00:09:10of Knowledge and
- 00:09:12Skills um I think that's pretty much it
- 00:09:15really so I suppose what I'm getting at
- 00:09:18is it's about the spirit so only apply
- 00:09:20for these programs if you really
- 00:09:23genuinely a passionate about
- 00:09:26learning um and have the time in your
- 00:09:31life to be able to fulfill the
- 00:09:33commitments that we're going to talk
- 00:09:35about so we are going to deal with
- 00:09:37questions at the end so I'm not going to
- 00:09:39respond to any of those at the
- 00:09:42moment okay so what we're going to do
- 00:09:44now is start by looking at each of the
- 00:09:46programs in
- 00:09:48detail so the florat program is a
- 00:09:52humanities-based program it's a very
- 00:09:54broad program so there will be content
- 00:09:59that comes from a whole range of
- 00:10:01different subjects so for example
- 00:10:05English History
- 00:10:08law um philosophy economics so there
- 00:10:12only be one session normally on each of
- 00:10:14these more on
- 00:10:17History um but bear in mind it's it's a
- 00:10:20really broad program and some of those
- 00:10:23topics are probably subjects that you
- 00:10:25haven't had the opportunity to explore
- 00:10:28before
- 00:10:30so you can see that florat runs on a
- 00:10:32Wednesday evening so that's 2 hours a
- 00:10:362our slot for our seminar
- 00:10:39sessions and it will begin with an
- 00:10:42introductory meeting in February and
- 00:10:45then you can see on the screen the list
- 00:10:48of sessions so where there are gaps you
- 00:10:51know you can probably work it out we've
- 00:10:53got half terms got Easter holidays Etc
- 00:10:56so it goes all through the spring term
- 00:10:59it goes into the summer term but stops
- 00:11:02well before the end of the summer term
- 00:11:04because a lot of you have internal
- 00:11:07exams and as I said you will be set work
- 00:11:12to do for each session which will talk
- 00:11:14about how you access that a bit
- 00:11:17later so if we move on to our next slide
- 00:11:22that's about our science-based program
- 00:11:25Frontier so this one runs on a Tuesday
- 00:11:27evening same time slot you'll see the
- 00:11:31dates are obviously slightly different
- 00:11:33because it's Tuesday but it's a similar
- 00:11:35time period so after you've completed
- 00:11:38all the online
- 00:11:40component you basically should by that
- 00:11:43time in the year have an idea about
- 00:11:47which subject or subjects you're most
- 00:11:49likely to apply for at degree
- 00:11:51level and you'll you'll have to decide
- 00:11:54which one you want your tutorial on and
- 00:11:57then you'll be set some tasks that you
- 00:11:59you need to complete in relation to that
- 00:12:01ready for the
- 00:12:05residential and then the third program
- 00:12:08is Fibonacci so what that is is a math
- 00:12:12based program so most of the people who
- 00:12:16come on Fibonacci are thinking about
- 00:12:19maths as a degree as a single or joint
- 00:12:21honors but they may be thinking about
- 00:12:24other degrees uh you know like for
- 00:12:27example physics or engineering or
- 00:12:30something like that that makes use of a
- 00:12:32lot of
- 00:12:33maths again you can see the dates up on
- 00:12:36screen don't worry about you know
- 00:12:39remembering these they'll be on the
- 00:12:41website but you can get a sense then
- 00:12:44that it is all the spring term half the
- 00:12:47summer term again similar time in the
- 00:12:50evening but this time on Monday's
- 00:12:52similar kind of
- 00:12:56Demands so we will have an application
- 00:13:00process that means that you a you're
- 00:13:03sort of applying for one of these
- 00:13:06programs before Christmas and we would
- 00:13:08let you know hopefully before Christmas
- 00:13:11ready to start with either an end of
- 00:13:13January introductory meeting or a
- 00:13:17meeting at the beginning of the February
- 00:13:19the the um sort of introduction it
- 00:13:21explains what it's going to be like in
- 00:13:23more detail make sure that you can find
- 00:13:26all the materials that you need so most
- 00:13:29most of the program is based online so
- 00:13:32that means you need to make sure that
- 00:13:34you have a reliable internet
- 00:13:37connection it's also expected that you
- 00:13:40are attending every session not like
- 00:13:43I'll come to the ones that I fancy
- 00:13:46that's not how it works and you need to
- 00:13:50set aside the time to do the work for
- 00:13:52the sessions because if you don't they
- 00:13:54become meaningless because you won't
- 00:13:57understand the material so we say that
- 00:13:59it's not going to be more than 2 hours a
- 00:14:02week but you have to think realistically
- 00:14:04you know if you've got a part-time job
- 00:14:07if you're struggling with a levels
- 00:14:09already uh you know you might have other
- 00:14:11commitments as well can you do yourself
- 00:14:15Justice you is it going to cause you too
- 00:14:17much stress is it the right thing for
- 00:14:20you there might be other programs or
- 00:14:22other experiences that are better for
- 00:14:24you as an individual so you'll be able
- 00:14:28to access materials that you need
- 00:14:30through the
- 00:14:33website okay so in the summer term as I
- 00:14:36said we we begin to finish the online
- 00:14:39sessions at the beginning of the summer
- 00:14:41term because we know people have exams
- 00:14:44often internal exams but we will ask you
- 00:14:48to choose at that point the topic for
- 00:14:50your
- 00:14:52tutorial we give you the work that you
- 00:14:55need to do for your tutorial in plenty
- 00:14:57of time and you'll know the residential
- 00:14:59date so please don't book a holiday when
- 00:15:02you're due to come on the residential
- 00:15:04because we can't change the
- 00:15:05residential um and what that residential
- 00:15:08does is it's short but it's busy and it
- 00:15:12will give you the opportunity apart from
- 00:15:15taking part in a
- 00:15:16tutorial to explore Oxford to spend time
- 00:15:20with each other to have some
- 00:15:22subject-based
- 00:15:24workshops perhaps some lectures you
- 00:15:27might have some sessions in a m Museum
- 00:15:30you'll have time to do things on your
- 00:15:32own as well you might have a personal
- 00:15:34statement
- 00:15:37meeting so I'm going to talk in a bit
- 00:15:39more depth now about the content of each
- 00:15:42of these programs and just for people
- 00:15:44who weren't here at the beginning as I
- 00:15:46said there may be some of you who would
- 00:15:49be eligible for more than one program
- 00:15:52you can only apply for one program so
- 00:15:55you have to think about the content of
- 00:15:57the program and also so the relevance to
- 00:16:01your current a levels and what you're
- 00:16:03thinking about doing so with Floria it's
- 00:16:06Humanities based as I said it's actually
- 00:16:08focused around an undergraduate history
- 00:16:12module on the Cold War many people have
- 00:16:15studied the Cold War at gcsc or a level
- 00:16:18there'll be other people who studied
- 00:16:20history but but haven't that's no
- 00:16:23barrier that's nothing to worry about
- 00:16:26and what we do is view the Cold War
- 00:16:28through the lens of different subjects
- 00:16:30so for instance in an English module
- 00:16:32we'd look at literature from the cold
- 00:16:35war in an art history module would be
- 00:16:37looking at paintings and other artifacts
- 00:16:40from the Cold War we'd be looking at
- 00:16:42legal issues relating to war in the law
- 00:16:45seminar and so and and so forth and an
- 00:16:49advantage of doing that is that you've
- 00:16:52got a genuinely
- 00:16:54multidisciplinary approach to a period
- 00:16:58in history but you're really getting the
- 00:17:00benefit from different subject
- 00:17:02perspectives and the material will come
- 00:17:05from University books there'll be
- 00:17:08Journal
- 00:17:09articles um sometimes it might be some
- 00:17:12video clips as well to read you're not
- 00:17:14going to be reading whole textbooks you
- 00:17:16would be reading you know a chapter of a
- 00:17:20textbook Frontier so Frontier in terms
- 00:17:24of science it's really focused on the
- 00:17:27life sciences um it's very varied so for
- 00:17:31example last year we've had modules on
- 00:17:33biology biochemistry chemistry
- 00:17:37bioengineering medicine so there's a lot
- 00:17:39of um focused on on this sort of
- 00:17:43interface between different areas like
- 00:17:46bioengineering biology and Engineering
- 00:17:49looking at how they work together to
- 00:17:51solve different contemporary problems we
- 00:17:54might be looking at topics like genetics
- 00:17:57Etc so you know for this program you do
- 00:18:02need well we've got a strong preference
- 00:18:04for two science a levels so most people
- 00:18:07tend to have biology and chemistry
- 00:18:10that's not a specific requirement we do
- 00:18:12have some people who've gone on to
- 00:18:13physics from this program but you have
- 00:18:15to think about the relevance for you in
- 00:18:18terms of Fibonacci well there's a lot of
- 00:18:21maths um there are some examples of
- 00:18:24topics there so we take topics that are
- 00:18:26explored in the first year of the
- 00:18:28undergrad graduate degree but we also
- 00:18:31look at other areas that use math like
- 00:18:34for example economics just to broaden it
- 00:18:37out and some computer science elements
- 00:18:40in
- 00:18:41there it is also worth saying I think
- 00:18:44that the content changes from year to
- 00:18:46year so different people teach on the
- 00:18:48program they bring their ideas and
- 00:18:51sometimes we will have different
- 00:18:54material uh as well so if you speak to
- 00:18:56someone who who was on theam program
- 00:18:59this year that's great but don't just
- 00:19:00think I really want that particular
- 00:19:03module or tutor obviously like school
- 00:19:05that's not necessarily going to
- 00:19:07happen Okay so why apply well hopefully
- 00:19:11as I said because you are passionate
- 00:19:14about learning you want to push
- 00:19:17yourself uh you're thinking of an
- 00:19:20academically stretching University and
- 00:19:23you want to see what that sort of
- 00:19:25experience of teaching and learning
- 00:19:27would be like like and you also have the
- 00:19:30time to do it it will really give you an
- 00:19:34understanding of how University style
- 00:19:36teaching is different from a levels from
- 00:19:38school teaching and
- 00:19:40specifically um Oxbridge teaching where
- 00:19:43you get the Ono one element it will also
- 00:19:47give you the chance to try out some very
- 00:19:49new subject material perhaps develop
- 00:19:51some new skills and as I say really
- 00:19:53create a network for yourself of
- 00:19:56likeminded people which hope you'll
- 00:19:59carry on with through
- 00:20:01life who should apply well there will be
- 00:20:06um a bit more information on the website
- 00:20:10but these are the basic elements of it
- 00:20:13you have to be in year2 or S5 you can
- 00:20:17see that on our website you need to be
- 00:20:20in a state
- 00:20:22school um you need to be aspirational so
- 00:20:25you need to have in mind really that you
- 00:20:27want to apply to Oxbridge or at least to
- 00:20:31Russell group
- 00:20:33University we don't set a specific
- 00:20:37number of gcss you can see a little bit
- 00:20:40more about that on our website but
- 00:20:42strong GCSE performance obviously the
- 00:20:45gcss that relate to the program so if
- 00:20:49you're going for science program You'
- 00:20:51we'd expect you to have strong Science
- 00:20:53grades and if you're applying to
- 00:20:56Humanities program strong grades for for
- 00:21:00that um you what you can't do is be
- 00:21:04involved in any other sustained contact
- 00:21:07program and that's not like oh we we're
- 00:21:10against other universities or anything
- 00:21:12what that's about is being realistic
- 00:21:15about your time commitments year 12 is
- 00:21:18busy you'll be doing lots of other
- 00:21:20things some of you do your Juke of
- 00:21:22Edinburgh your your epq whatever so you
- 00:21:25have to be realistic and you don't need
- 00:21:28to do loads and loads of things because
- 00:21:29actually the most important thing is to
- 00:21:32get really good a level
- 00:21:34grades so if you're going to apply for
- 00:21:37Floria our strong preference is for you
- 00:21:39to have two sa based a levels or
- 00:21:44equivalent for science um our strong
- 00:21:48preference is for you to have two
- 00:21:50science-based subjects for
- 00:21:53Fibonacci well obviously you need to be
- 00:21:55doing a level maths we don't say you
- 00:21:58have have to be doing further masth
- 00:22:00because a lot of students don't get the
- 00:22:01opportunity in their six forms to do it
- 00:22:04we've had quite a few students who have
- 00:22:06been self-taught
- 00:22:08um but so obviously you need to be keen
- 00:22:12on Ma you can again you'll see more
- 00:22:15detail on our website um we're
- 00:22:18particularly Keen to attract students
- 00:22:21from under represented groups and also
- 00:22:24from students who maybe come from
- 00:22:26schools where no one's actually um being
- 00:22:29successful in applying talks that before
- 00:22:31would be good to see people coming there
- 00:22:33and also we are interested particularly
- 00:22:37in recruiting service
- 00:22:40children okay so um I skipped a slide
- 00:22:45there by accident Just for
- 00:22:48information I've given you a sort of
- 00:22:50breakdown of some of the degrees the
- 00:22:53former participants have gone on to
- 00:22:55study so with florat as I said it's a
- 00:22:57broad program and it's not a surprise
- 00:23:00that students have gone on to study a
- 00:23:02really wide range of different degrees
- 00:23:05from anthropology and
- 00:23:07archaeology theology politics obviously
- 00:23:11I think you wouldn't be surprised that
- 00:23:12lots of them want to do history in
- 00:23:14English
- 00:23:15maybe um but it is a really broad range
- 00:23:18there with Frontier again it's pretty
- 00:23:21broad biology chemistry biochemistry
- 00:23:24computer science geography maths
- 00:23:25medicine Neuroscience biomedical science
- 00:23:29we couldn't put them all on there
- 00:23:31couldn't fit them all on the slides
- 00:23:33Fibonacci um well as I said it's
- 00:23:35math-based and lots of people are
- 00:23:37interested in maths or joint honors like
- 00:23:40math and stats or math with computer
- 00:23:43science um but we have had students a
- 00:23:46number of students on economics and
- 00:23:48Engineering materials and physics so
- 00:23:51possibly narrower than some of the
- 00:23:53others but still pretty
- 00:23:56broad so important important to allay
- 00:23:59your fears then so we don't charge for
- 00:24:02this program you get the materials
- 00:24:04through the website um you know you're
- 00:24:07you're doing it online you need you do
- 00:24:09need to make sure you've got a good
- 00:24:10broadband connection as I said when it
- 00:24:13comes to the residential so that is free
- 00:24:16we provide the
- 00:24:17accommodation and the food etc for free
- 00:24:22with travel Arrangements oh where have
- 00:24:24my slides gone something has happened
- 00:24:27there
- 00:24:29and we will have to reshare them but I
- 00:24:32will talk while we do that with travel
- 00:24:35Arrangements if you um are struggling
- 00:24:39around Finance for that then we have
- 00:24:43particular criteria about providing
- 00:24:46money for travel so sorry about this I
- 00:24:48will just flick through to that slide we
- 00:24:50need to go on
- 00:24:53again um
- 00:24:55yeah you know you don't have to worry
- 00:24:58about whether you're clever enough I've
- 00:25:00told you a little bit about you know
- 00:25:02having strong GCSE grades you can see
- 00:25:05that on our
- 00:25:06website actually it would be really good
- 00:25:08to have people who think they won't fit
- 00:25:10in because that's one of the parts of of
- 00:25:13you know the program to help people
- 00:25:15experience the environment and see who
- 00:25:18is at Oxford and help you feel that you
- 00:25:20would fit in and it doesn't matter if
- 00:25:22you've got no idea right now whether um
- 00:25:26you know you want to study philos
- 00:25:28philosophy or politics or chemistry or
- 00:25:31medicine again that's one of the other
- 00:25:33aspects that this program will help you
- 00:25:36with you're only a few years into year
- 00:25:3812 that you know by the time you have
- 00:25:41sort of got to the stage of the
- 00:25:43residential you would have to have a
- 00:25:46pretty good idea if you were applying to
- 00:25:48Oxford or Cambridge because of the
- 00:25:49earlier entrance date but right now you
- 00:25:52might well not know what you want to
- 00:25:54study but these are really sorry can I
- 00:25:57jump in are you sides res shared on your
- 00:26:00screen yes yeah I can't see them I don't
- 00:26:02know about anybody else but I've got
- 00:26:04nothing here it's got the red border
- 00:26:07saying that they are
- 00:26:09shared I see them we can see I can't say
- 00:26:13them
- 00:26:14either I I'll leave and
- 00:26:16rejoin can't see
- 00:26:19them I can't see them
- 00:26:22either we can see them can't see them so
- 00:26:26I think the answer is if if you can't
- 00:26:29see them just just leave and rejoin cuz
- 00:26:32my screen is saying that they're shared
- 00:26:35and obviously some people are I mean
- 00:26:37this is one of the things that happens
- 00:26:38with teams occasionally so I'll just
- 00:26:41pause for a moment and allow people to
- 00:26:43do
- 00:26:45that leaving and rejoined it fixed it
- 00:26:48for me okay so I'll just I'm just gonna
- 00:26:52pause a moment to allow people to just
- 00:26:54do that if you've got a problem
- 00:27:06okay
- 00:27:08so this section is about things to
- 00:27:11really
- 00:27:13consider um you have to be able to
- 00:27:16attend all of the sessions so that's the
- 00:27:19introductory meeting you know the online
- 00:27:21sessions and the residential it's not
- 00:27:23I'll drop in and I'll drop
- 00:27:26out we get large numbers of students
- 00:27:29applying for this program so it's very
- 00:27:32irritating if people don't make use of
- 00:27:35it when we know we could have taken so
- 00:27:37many more
- 00:27:39people and if it's that you're really
- 00:27:41only interested in one subject element
- 00:27:44there will be other things that you can
- 00:27:46do that would be really um very targeted
- 00:27:50and specific for you so you really need
- 00:27:53to be clear about that the other thing
- 00:27:57is as with most things you only get out
- 00:28:00what you put into something so you will
- 00:28:03be in a group of 20 online we take 40
- 00:28:07for each program but we run two sessions
- 00:28:09so you're in a group of 20 and you do
- 00:28:12need to be willing to contribute to the
- 00:28:16discussions um you know the these
- 00:28:19sessions are not recorded so you've got
- 00:28:23the Privacy that's why we don't produce
- 00:28:25recordings of the sessions and it's fine
- 00:28:28to use your microphones and have your
- 00:28:31cameras on you know you've got the
- 00:28:32support of the group around you you're
- 00:28:34you're all wanting the same things and
- 00:28:37you have to have that time available to
- 00:28:39do the prep because if you don't then
- 00:28:42the online teaching isn't going to make
- 00:28:44sense for you so it becomes a bit of a
- 00:28:46waste of time and that's why it's a good
- 00:28:49idea to have a chat with your teachers
- 00:28:51because you know you have to keep up
- 00:28:54with your a level work and ultimately is
- 00:28:57your a level grades that will determine
- 00:28:59whether you get that place or not um
- 00:29:02you'll you might get an offer but each
- 00:29:04year people don't end up at the
- 00:29:06universities they want to go to
- 00:29:08particularly Oxford or Cambridge because
- 00:29:11they haven't met the in um the you know
- 00:29:14the minimum entrance grades so you have
- 00:29:18to be honest with yourselves about this
- 00:29:21I would advise having a discussion with
- 00:29:23your head of six or subject teachers or
- 00:29:27so parents sharing the date with them
- 00:29:29and thinking about any after school
- 00:29:31activities that you do because if
- 00:29:33they're on the night that this these
- 00:29:35particular sessions take place then
- 00:29:38you've got a
- 00:29:40problem okay uh there are some quotes
- 00:29:43from previous participants on the screen
- 00:29:47and what will be even better than that
- 00:29:50of course we'll be hearing from some of
- 00:29:52the previous participants but I'm just
- 00:29:54going to pick up on a few of the
- 00:29:56different things that they got there and
- 00:29:58it says one quote really stressing how
- 00:30:01that student enjoyed meeting people who
- 00:30:05thought about things in a similar way
- 00:30:07you had similar
- 00:30:09aspirations uh I think you know other
- 00:30:11people really enjoying the experience of
- 00:30:14being at oxid on the residential and the
- 00:30:16insight into Student
- 00:30:19Life um other people were talking about
- 00:30:21the tutorials you know they were worried
- 00:30:23they thought tutorials would be severe
- 00:30:25that the teachers would be harsh that
- 00:30:28was an important aspect of the program
- 00:30:31for
- 00:30:32them so what we're not going to do is
- 00:30:36spend lots and lots of time answering
- 00:30:38questions where you can find information
- 00:30:41on the website and by watching the
- 00:30:44recording so just to make this bit
- 00:30:47really clear for people at the moment
- 00:30:49the application form isn't on the
- 00:30:51website we don't put it up there until
- 00:30:55we've done this open evening because we
- 00:30:57don't want people
- 00:30:58applying having not listened to the
- 00:31:02information so what will happen is that
- 00:31:06tomorrow we will do an update of that
- 00:31:09website and we will put
- 00:31:12applications on the on the website at
- 00:31:14that point a link to the application
- 00:31:18form but it won't open for a couple of
- 00:31:21days it won't actually open until uh
- 00:31:24Monday to make sure you've had time to
- 00:31:26do some reflection about it and you'll
- 00:31:29see that there are different deadlines
- 00:31:31for each
- 00:31:33program um when you complete the
- 00:31:36application it will ask you questions it
- 00:31:38will ask you questions like can you
- 00:31:40commit to all the sessions again and
- 00:31:43have you you know talked about it with
- 00:31:45your parents are they happy for you to
- 00:31:47do it Etc so you you need to take your
- 00:31:50time and make sure you've done that
- 00:31:54properly what else is there well it
- 00:31:56might be after tonight that you think
- 00:31:58well you know I'm interested in Oxford
- 00:32:01or whatever but I don't I'm not ready to
- 00:32:04make that kind of commitment I need to
- 00:32:06focus on my a levels and all of that is
- 00:32:09perfectly understandable so I'm just
- 00:32:11going to tell you briefly about some
- 00:32:12other
- 00:32:14opportunities we at the University run a
- 00:32:16scheme called unique so that is for year
- 00:32:2012 students and state schools but it's
- 00:32:24specifically targeted at those from
- 00:32:27under repes presented backgrounds again
- 00:32:29particularly those who are economically
- 00:32:31disadvantaged so there are very strict
- 00:32:33eligibility criteria you can have a look
- 00:32:36at it on the University website that
- 00:32:39will also entail um teaching and a
- 00:32:44residential um there are lots of subject
- 00:32:48tast to days I mean we run a whole group
- 00:32:51of these between March and June where
- 00:32:54you come into college you have some
- 00:32:56lectures and workshops run by our tutors
- 00:32:58in that subject area you watch a
- 00:33:01demonstration interview you have a tour
- 00:33:04with our undergraduates so there are
- 00:33:05real subject specific insight for
- 00:33:09example in history or physics and
- 00:33:12philosophy or chemistry or biology so
- 00:33:15those might be more um appropriate to
- 00:33:18people who don't want a kind of
- 00:33:20sustained contact but some small amounts
- 00:33:23of contact on a very specific subject it
- 00:33:27might be that you want to access some of
- 00:33:29our online resources um so we have
- 00:33:32guides for each kind of degree biology
- 00:33:36chemistry history English philosophy and
- 00:33:39they're just some resources um that you
- 00:33:41might explore if you're interested in
- 00:33:43that topic and they're divided up into
- 00:33:45things like reading or videos podcasts
- 00:33:48it's not a to-do list it's just to dip
- 00:33:50in and for you to find things you're
- 00:33:53interested in or it could be that you
- 00:33:55particularly want to take part in some
- 00:33:58competitions they can be really good
- 00:34:00things to add to your personal statement
- 00:34:04they showcase your ability but hopefully
- 00:34:07you'll have learned something new on
- 00:34:08them you might want to come to some
- 00:34:11faculty open days at the University you
- 00:34:14know the English faculty and the math
- 00:34:16faculty run open days or there are the
- 00:34:20uh open days that the whole university
- 00:34:23runs come the
- 00:34:24summer um it runs three of those soort
- 00:34:27of this this year it will be early in
- 00:34:30July and then another one in September
- 00:34:32so that's when all of the university is
- 00:34:34open and you can go to departments you
- 00:34:36can go to colleges
- 00:34:38Etc we have a bulletin of all the
- 00:34:41opportunities at Oxford you know from
- 00:34:44departments and colleges that we send
- 00:34:46out to schools so it's worth asking your
- 00:34:49teachers if they receive that and if
- 00:34:51they don't but they would like it then
- 00:34:54they we will um happily put them on the
- 00:34:56list and then they can disseminate those
- 00:34:59opportunities to you so there's lots out
- 00:35:02there it's not just this and you just
- 00:35:04have to think what's right for
- 00:35:06you so there's an email address on
- 00:35:10screen there Outreach baal. ox.
- 00:35:15ac.uk if after you've been through
- 00:35:19tonight's session and you've had a
- 00:35:21chance to ask questions but you go away
- 00:35:24and think of something else then you can
- 00:35:26always email um this is a very busy time
- 00:35:29of year for us because we're about to go
- 00:35:31into the admissions period so we will
- 00:35:33respond to you but there may be a bit of
- 00:35:36a
- 00:35:37delay so that's a lot of me talking um I
- 00:35:42know some people have Miss slides joined
- 00:35:45late so we might have to recap here and
- 00:35:47there but that's not a problem so I'm
- 00:35:49going to stop sharing my screen for the
- 00:35:52moment and I'm
- 00:35:55hoping um that in a minute we'll be able
- 00:35:58to go to some of the students who
- 00:36:00participated in the programs this year
- 00:36:02but before I do that Jack is there
- 00:36:04anything you want to add before we move
- 00:36:07on to that
- 00:36:09bit no I don't think so I think we've
- 00:36:11covered everything um pretty well I will
- 00:36:13just say obviously this session has been
- 00:36:14recorded So if people have missed stuff
- 00:36:16I know a few people say they haven't
- 00:36:17been able to see slides all the way
- 00:36:18through the recording will be available
- 00:36:20for you so you don't feel like you've
- 00:36:21missed anything um by not being able to
- 00:36:24see or having to drop in and out or
- 00:36:25anything like that
- 00:36:28great thank you so I'm hoping and maybe
- 00:36:31Jack you've had an opportunity to see
- 00:36:33that we were expecting uh some students
- 00:36:36from all three programs so Flor at
- 00:36:39Frontier and Fibonacci
- 00:36:41tonight and what we can do is pose some
- 00:36:45questions from the chat but if you want
- 00:36:50to ask something that you haven't put in
- 00:36:53the chat then you can raise your hands
- 00:36:54and we'll try that or if we don't get
- 00:36:56many questions that's fine we'll we'll
- 00:36:58just ask them what their sort of
- 00:37:00highlights were what their reservations
- 00:37:02were about applying but um I'm going to
- 00:37:05be quiet now for a bit and I'm going to
- 00:37:07hand over to you jack for the next
- 00:37:09section thank you that's brilliant thank
- 00:37:12you if we've got any people who were
- 00:37:13here who've been on one of the programs
- 00:37:14can you turn your cameras on if that's
- 00:37:16possible or your mics on and just say
- 00:37:18hello just so we can see who we've got
- 00:37:20hi Jack
- 00:37:22hi hi perfect cool Hello um brilliant so
- 00:37:28we have people I can't see you got too
- 00:37:31many people in the meeting or what but
- 00:37:32that's fine as long as you're here
- 00:37:33that's the main thing
- 00:37:36um does anybody I tell you what uh I'm
- 00:37:40just going to look through the questions
- 00:37:41quickly
- 00:37:43um does anyone want to start and just
- 00:37:46say what they just a brief overview of
- 00:37:49what you thought of the program and if
- 00:37:51there was anything that you thought sort
- 00:37:53of surprised you or anything that you
- 00:37:55were worried about that then you know
- 00:37:57you realized it wasn't something you
- 00:37:58should be particularly worried about
- 00:38:00anyone want to jump in and talk quick
- 00:38:02talk
- 00:38:04quickly I can start with that if you
- 00:38:06want yeah please Joe yeah that'd be cool
- 00:38:09um I think like one thing that might put
- 00:38:12people off applying to Floria especially
- 00:38:15is how broad the course is but um you
- 00:38:20you'd be surprised as to how interl
- 00:38:22every subject you do is like I've got um
- 00:38:25I've got my notes from the sessions
- 00:38:27actually here and this is the history of
- 00:38:29art session which I didn't actually
- 00:38:31think would be that interesting but you
- 00:38:33can see how many things have like
- 00:38:35circled and highlighted and stuff and
- 00:38:38some of these notes actually made it
- 00:38:39onto my personal statement and I was
- 00:38:41talking about a history of art session
- 00:38:43in a PPE personal statement and it just
- 00:38:46shows that although this florat program
- 00:38:49might be very Broad and you might think
- 00:38:51oh what's the point in me doing like so
- 00:38:53many history programs if I'm trying to
- 00:38:55apply for philosophy but the program is
- 00:38:57really well curated and if you are
- 00:39:00passionate about your subject you will
- 00:39:02find something in every single session
- 00:39:04that you
- 00:39:07do it's brilliant Joe thank you um I
- 00:39:10just wonder can I ask anyone who have
- 00:39:12done this has done one of the programs
- 00:39:13before did anybody do 4 a levels and how
- 00:39:16did you find the workload around doing 4
- 00:39:18a levels and being on one of the
- 00:39:20programs Finn I can see you you're
- 00:39:23there yeah so I'm doing math SP maths
- 00:39:26physics and chemistry on F and I think
- 00:39:30in this case there wasn't too much of a
- 00:39:33problem because there's a lot of overlap
- 00:39:34between the four especially math maths
- 00:39:37and physics um it's important to keep on
- 00:39:40top of it but I think that it depends
- 00:39:42what a levels you're taking because I
- 00:39:44can see if you've got a different
- 00:39:45combination it could be very different
- 00:39:47than a much higher workload but that's
- 00:39:49that's what it was like
- 00:39:51to that's brilliant Finn thank you um
- 00:39:54who else have we got who else is here
- 00:39:56that was on the last year yeah I'm here
- 00:39:59Abby I was FR sorry that's okay Abby do
- 00:40:03you want to just introduce quickly and
- 00:40:04just say what El was you studied yeah um
- 00:40:07I studied biology chemistry and math and
- 00:40:09I did
- 00:40:10Fran brilliant thank you and I'm so
- 00:40:12we've got someone else as well yeah I'm
- 00:40:15here so I'm I'm Freddy and I take
- 00:40:19IB uh and then High I do maths politics
- 00:40:23Spanish which I know is um very
- 00:40:25different but I did uh I did Fibonacci
- 00:40:29yeah brilliant thank you um would
- 00:40:31someone like to just speak quickly about
- 00:40:33the the work you had to do before each
- 00:40:35session in terms of how much it was
- 00:40:37whether you enjoyed it whether you think
- 00:40:39you know how how you manage managed that
- 00:40:41alongside your A
- 00:40:45Levels I mean I'm happy to talk about
- 00:40:48Frontier um yeah please so a lot of ours
- 00:40:52was like mainly scientific article based
- 00:40:54so we mainly got an article a week about
- 00:40:56like a new topic but I found it really
- 00:40:59accessible because for loads of the
- 00:41:00sessions we normally got a video leading
- 00:41:02up that gave us loads of context so took
- 00:41:05it from like a really basic level which
- 00:41:07made it really easy to build on it so I
- 00:41:10don't do physics but with all the
- 00:41:11resources that I was given I still found
- 00:41:13the physics sessions really accessible
- 00:41:15um I thought the information was really
- 00:41:16easy to access it was always really
- 00:41:17interesting but like it definitely took
- 00:41:20the two hours recommended so I would be
- 00:41:22prepared for that
- 00:41:28yeah I mean with the Floria program it
- 00:41:32is quite similar in that you do you do
- 00:41:34need to spend the two hours doing the
- 00:41:36preparation because if you try going to
- 00:41:38the subject or the seminar completely
- 00:41:41unprepared it won't go well and you
- 00:41:43won't be able to extract anything from
- 00:41:45it so for us we got usually like an
- 00:41:49article or a chapter or two to read
- 00:41:52before every seminar and we would start
- 00:41:55the seminar by
- 00:41:58talking just discussing similar how you
- 00:42:00would in a oxid tutorial of what we've
- 00:42:02read what we thought about it building
- 00:42:04on our ideas and then um and then the
- 00:42:07tutor would kind of take us where they
- 00:42:09want us to go and we just build on the
- 00:42:11discussion so I I found all of the
- 00:42:14pre-readings very interesting obviously
- 00:42:17some more than others but um as long as
- 00:42:20you do spend the time and dedicate some
- 00:42:23effort into doing what you need to do
- 00:42:26you will be able to like extract what
- 00:42:28you need to from every session and the
- 00:42:29workload shouldn't get too
- 00:42:34much I don't mind speaking for
- 00:42:37Fibonacci um so our like pre-reading
- 00:42:41material was quite different um what I
- 00:42:44just heard from Floria and uh Frontier
- 00:42:47we we normally had problem sheets like
- 00:42:51on the topic that we're going to look at
- 00:42:54in the session um and so definitely like
- 00:42:57there was no way you could have gone
- 00:42:59into the meeting without having like
- 00:43:02spent the like the full two hours or
- 00:43:04however long it takes on the problem
- 00:43:05sheet because we began the sessions by
- 00:43:09looking over the answers and then we
- 00:43:12then built on everything we did in the
- 00:43:15problem sheet
- 00:43:17so I but I also wouldn't be put off by
- 00:43:21the amount of time you have to spend on
- 00:43:23the problem sheets because they were
- 00:43:25they were really really enjoyable and
- 00:43:26obviously if you're looking to apply for
- 00:43:29Fibonacci or whatever other course
- 00:43:31you're clearly already very passionate
- 00:43:33about your subject so should be able to
- 00:43:35find the find the prereading as
- 00:43:38enjoyable as I
- 00:43:44did that's brilliant thank you um and
- 00:43:46then can somebody mind just quickly
- 00:43:48speaking about the the Seminars the
- 00:43:51online seminars you had and sort of how
- 00:43:53interactive were they what you thought
- 00:43:55of them um just yeah there someone's
- 00:43:58asked about
- 00:44:10those you go first I don't
- 00:44:15know oh wait no sorry let's say Abby
- 00:44:18Abby Abby speak
- 00:44:20first um okay uh I would say the science
- 00:44:23seminars were really interactive um from
- 00:44:26what I can remember there was always
- 00:44:27loads of questions in the chat for us to
- 00:44:29answer um especially like I remember lot
- 00:44:32of the chemistry ones we would like
- 00:44:33they' put a question up like on the
- 00:44:35board and then we'd work for it and then
- 00:44:36they'd show us all their working outs
- 00:44:37which was really interesting um some of
- 00:44:40them were more sort of satb back but
- 00:44:42also there was like videos and like
- 00:44:43different diagrams and pictures and
- 00:44:45stuff and uh lecturers were always more
- 00:44:47than willing to answer questions any
- 00:44:49time through the cemar so they did feel
- 00:44:51really interactive and you were more
- 00:44:53than welcome to make them as interactive
- 00:44:55as possible if you are there and present
- 00:44:58and yeah doing like giving them like
- 00:45:01it's paying attention and interacting as
- 00:45:03much as
- 00:45:07possible um with with Floria I think the
- 00:45:12thing that made the seminars so
- 00:45:14enjoyable was how interactive they were
- 00:45:17like in every seminar you sometimes
- 00:45:20would learn more from the other people
- 00:45:22in Floria than you would from the tutor
- 00:45:24and it the whole thing revolves around a
- 00:45:27huge group discussion and let's say the
- 00:45:31this week's seminar is philosophy for me
- 00:45:33I don't take philosophy but there were
- 00:45:35some people in the seminars who did take
- 00:45:37philosophy and I was able to learn so
- 00:45:39much from their comments and their
- 00:45:41discussions and it pushed me to want to
- 00:45:43learn more and to put in like the extra
- 00:45:46effort read something that was mentioned
- 00:45:48in the seminar and just expand my own
- 00:45:51knowledge based on what they said so
- 00:45:54yeah it's hugely interactive and
- 00:45:56extremely
- 00:46:00enjoyable I think especially for um
- 00:46:05Frontier um because the tutorials were
- 00:46:08always led by PhD students that the
- 00:46:12students were always happy and almost
- 00:46:14always did sort of end their
- 00:46:16presentations by pulling up a couple of
- 00:46:19slides of their research so after maybe
- 00:46:21covering the theory for about an hour
- 00:46:23and a half they' sort of say oh well now
- 00:46:25we've learned this here's my research
- 00:46:28and this graph and that equation and
- 00:46:32that's the practical application of what
- 00:46:33we've been learning about and they're
- 00:46:35always happy to chat about their
- 00:46:37research or what their future plans were
- 00:46:39which I thought was really useful
- 00:46:41because before the frontier progo I
- 00:46:43didn't really know what I wanted to do
- 00:46:45but it was definitely quite an eye
- 00:46:47opening experience so yeah they're
- 00:46:52great yeah and similarly with Flor out
- 00:46:55we always got like five or 10 minutes at
- 00:46:57the end where we could just discuss
- 00:46:59about application processes or like any
- 00:47:02recommendations for things that are Tut
- 00:47:04to sound incredibly useful reading and
- 00:47:07things that they would recommend us
- 00:47:08reading so yeah it was really cool to be
- 00:47:10able to like interact with them and get
- 00:47:12to know them quite well and um yeah like
- 00:47:16the opportunity was was
- 00:47:20great that's brilliant thanks everybody
- 00:47:23um I wonder if someone can talk about
- 00:47:26the residential slightly so what you
- 00:47:28thought of it whether you found it
- 00:47:29helpful um again if there's anything
- 00:47:31that you surprise you about it who wants
- 00:47:33to jump in
- 00:47:35first I would love to speak about the
- 00:47:38residential because I thought it was so
- 00:47:41amazing I I loved it so much I thought
- 00:47:44that um from the sessions I'd already
- 00:47:47like gauged sort of what people I'm
- 00:47:50around but when I when I got to the
- 00:47:52residential it was completely different
- 00:47:55like every kind of um
- 00:47:57when I was in sessions I I I didn't
- 00:47:59think much of the other people but the
- 00:48:01people were so nice on the program and I
- 00:48:04also I kind of had this worry that like
- 00:48:08I I wasn't really gonna fit in or um the
- 00:48:13other people especially kind of with the
- 00:48:16like
- 00:48:17mathematics stereotypes that nobody was
- 00:48:21going to be social and whatever but it
- 00:48:23was it was so amazing and I loved
- 00:48:26speaking to everybody like who had
- 00:48:28similar interests to me and I think I
- 00:48:31think the main thing um was the tutorial
- 00:48:35the tutorial was so great so it was only
- 00:48:39me and um one other one
- 00:48:43other guy on the guy on Fibonacci with
- 00:48:46with a PhD student who's clearly so
- 00:48:49passionate about the subject and it was
- 00:48:51just great to speak for like an hour
- 00:48:54about his his biggest passion so that
- 00:48:57was so incredible I could talk for so
- 00:48:59long but I I won't but
- 00:49:03yeah billi thanks Freddy anyone else
- 00:49:05have anything they want to say very
- 00:49:06quickly about
- 00:49:08residential I think the oh sorry Joseph
- 00:49:11you go first oh it's okay you go first
- 00:49:15cheers um I think the best thing about
- 00:49:17the residential was because the year 12
- 00:49:19application summer is such a scary time
- 00:49:22that meeting people that are actually in
- 00:49:24the same spot as you going to the the
- 00:49:26same stuff as you interested in the same
- 00:49:28stuff was just such a relief because it
- 00:49:31was honestly the most one of the most
- 00:49:32scary experiences of my life but
- 00:49:34honestly meeting these people and like
- 00:49:36Freddy said the tutorials are absolutely
- 00:49:39fantastic and they're really quite
- 00:49:41relaxed as well it's not it's sort of a
- 00:49:44scary environment or anything like that
- 00:49:46and the food is amazing as well the food
- 00:49:48is probably good
- 00:49:52yeah yeah I mean I was pretty much going
- 00:49:55to say what Milo said meeting people
- 00:49:57that are going through the exact same
- 00:49:58thing as me was so fun and I mean I'm
- 00:50:01still friends with a lot of people on
- 00:50:03Floria and we regularly go to the
- 00:50:05British Library together and study
- 00:50:07together read over each other's personal
- 00:50:09statements and stuff so yeah meeting
- 00:50:12people that I'm going to be friends with
- 00:50:13for a while was was so incredible and um
- 00:50:17yeah my tutorial was really really fun
- 00:50:20it was about one of my favorite topics
- 00:50:22democratization and democracy and I got
- 00:50:25to write a 000w essay on literally my
- 00:50:28favorite Topic in the world and then
- 00:50:30talk for an hour or an hour and a half
- 00:50:33about like literally my favorite thing
- 00:50:35that I could spend days talking about so
- 00:50:39yeah it's an incredible opportunity and
- 00:50:42I think once you get to the point where
- 00:50:44you're choosing what subject you're
- 00:50:46going to do your tutorial and you're
- 00:50:47pretty clear on what you want to study
- 00:50:49University as well so it's very unlikely
- 00:50:53that you'll get like work that you have
- 00:50:55to do that you won't enjoy enjoy any
- 00:50:58work that you'll get set like you will
- 00:51:00enjoy if you're picking the right
- 00:51:02subject if you know I
- 00:51:06mean I'm just gonna come in and just
- 00:51:08follow up on something that um Joseph
- 00:51:11said there with all these programs you
- 00:51:15know I talked about one of the things
- 00:51:17that you need to consider is your
- 00:51:20participation because what you put in
- 00:51:23will determine what you get out but the
- 00:51:26other thing to
- 00:51:27remember is that the teaching at Oxford
- 00:51:30involves these small groups these
- 00:51:32tutorials normally two or three students
- 00:51:35and and in that
- 00:51:37situation you know you can't hide at the
- 00:51:40back of the room you do need to be
- 00:51:43prepared to participate so this whole
- 00:51:46program is quite a gentle introduction
- 00:51:48to that you get your opportunities
- 00:51:51online within that closed Group which is
- 00:51:54why we don't record sessions so you can
- 00:51:57talk about your own
- 00:51:59views um and then in the tutorials those
- 00:52:02are just as you would have them but you
- 00:52:04do have to remember that you need to
- 00:52:08enjoy
- 00:52:09participating in that way voicing your
- 00:52:12opinion and evidencing it with examples
- 00:52:16so that's another thing to think about
- 00:52:18so obviously the students here have been
- 00:52:21through it enjoy talking doesn't mean
- 00:52:23they're all boisterous and loud it's not
- 00:52:25about that it's just developing your
- 00:52:28confidence to express yourself verbally
- 00:52:32because that is the key to the teaching
- 00:52:35here you know we have the bigger group
- 00:52:37teachings the lectures and things like
- 00:52:40that but at the heart of it is the
- 00:52:41tutorial system so it's really important
- 00:52:45to be able to explore
- 00:52:48that Jack have we got any um anything
- 00:52:51else that's just come into the chat it's
- 00:52:54really great to see all of you back
- 00:52:57again so thank you it's nice to see
- 00:52:59people from all three
- 00:53:01programs there is actually a question
- 00:53:02that I think you should answer Prov I
- 00:53:04think because it keeps cropping up about
- 00:53:06people asking what exactly um being on
- 00:53:10another sustained contact program
- 00:53:12entails and where's the line between
- 00:53:13what we deem as being on another program
- 00:53:16or
- 00:53:16not yeah well there are programs like
- 00:53:19this that for example Cambridge has
- 00:53:22scheme um runs a sustained contact
- 00:53:25program where you can MIT to a number of
- 00:53:27tutorials and you do work for those
- 00:53:30there's something similar well as I said
- 00:53:32you just simply don't need to do both of
- 00:53:34them it's not about us not wanting you
- 00:53:37to do things with other universities
- 00:53:40it's about being realistic about what
- 00:53:42you can commit to and you know you've
- 00:53:44heard students here talking about well
- 00:53:46it does take the couple of hours you
- 00:53:48can't do that for a number of programs
- 00:53:51you know if it's a tast a day if it's
- 00:53:53going to you another University for a
- 00:53:56day
- 00:53:57or you know you're listening to some
- 00:53:59online lectures or something because
- 00:54:01you're interested fine but some another
- 00:54:03program that takes like this one does
- 00:54:06actually it's a period of over nine
- 00:54:08months you're just not going to manage
- 00:54:10to do that without compromising your
- 00:54:13grades and that's the most important
- 00:54:15thing of all um so you just need to
- 00:54:19consider that and obviously you might
- 00:54:22have applied to other programs um you
- 00:54:25may get a place you may not um but
- 00:54:29there's quite a gap between us
- 00:54:32advertising this and the deadline so you
- 00:54:34need to obviously wait till you know the
- 00:54:36result but what I can't really do is get
- 00:54:39into individual discussions about this
- 00:54:41program or that program um you know you
- 00:54:45can always email me about them and I'll
- 00:54:47I'll make I'll have a think about it if
- 00:54:50I don't know them but sustained means
- 00:54:53over a long period of time it's very
- 00:54:55different from you going on a visit or a
- 00:55:04oneoff anything else from the chat Jack
- 00:55:07that we haven't picked up or we might
- 00:55:08want to ask um our students
- 00:55:11here um not particularly for the
- 00:55:15students here there's a there's another
- 00:55:17question that keeps cropping up about um
- 00:55:19the application process itself but that
- 00:55:21will all go on the website so we'll see
- 00:55:23that once we um put the links on the
- 00:55:26application forms for you all to apply
- 00:55:28starting from tomorrow
- 00:55:31um I think does anyone here did anyone
- 00:55:34or is anyone applying for
- 00:55:37engineering no that's fine um because
- 00:55:40that question keeps cropping up about
- 00:55:41engineering and whether they should
- 00:55:43apply for Fibonacci or Frontier um both
- 00:55:47would yes I am not applying for
- 00:55:50engineering but when I was on the
- 00:55:52residential I I probably would say go
- 00:55:55for Fibonacci for engineering because
- 00:55:57there were a lot of engineering
- 00:55:59applicants on the Fibonacci
- 00:56:01residential I think I I mean I agree
- 00:56:04with you Freddy the thing I'm going to
- 00:56:06keep um pointing people back to is think
- 00:56:10about your current a levels and how the
- 00:56:13programs fit best with those because if
- 00:56:16you're interested in engineering you're
- 00:56:18probably doing maths and physics maybe
- 00:56:21maths and further maths in which case
- 00:56:24that's definitely fibon Ary for you uh
- 00:56:28because if you're doing that and you're
- 00:56:30not doing two Sciences then you haven't
- 00:56:33got another opportunity anyway but you
- 00:56:37know if you're going for Frontier
- 00:56:39remember that's mainly the life sciences
- 00:56:41so yes I did say that we had some
- 00:56:44modules on things like
- 00:56:46bioengineering um which which is the
- 00:56:49sort of interface of different sciences
- 00:56:51and how they work together but mainly I
- 00:56:54would say Fibonacci
- 00:57:03okay well it's time so I'm going to
- 00:57:06first of all thank all of the students
- 00:57:09who've joined us from taking part in the
- 00:57:11programs tonight and more
- 00:57:13importantly wish you luck with your
- 00:57:16applications um it's really nice that we
- 00:57:20have students at bail who have literally
- 00:57:22just joined as freshers from each of the
- 00:57:25three programs so you know for you this
- 00:57:27could be you in a year's time or another
- 00:57:31uh College in O but thank you very
- 00:57:33much for taking the time to kind of pay
- 00:57:37it forward that's the spirit of the
- 00:57:39program so thank you so much for joining
- 00:57:41us for everyone else who've joined thank
- 00:57:43you for taking the time out I think it's
- 00:57:46really helpful to hear this in some
- 00:57:50detail and for you to be able to go back
- 00:57:52over it um I will just respond to the
- 00:57:55psych ology question that comes up a lot
- 00:57:58so we will treat psychology as a science
- 00:58:02but in terms of the program that you do
- 00:58:06you have to make up your mind really are
- 00:58:08you really doing science a levels in
- 00:58:11which case it's probably Frontier or
- 00:58:13more of the Humanity's person so the
- 00:58:16recording will go up on the website
- 00:58:18tomorrow we'll put the links for the
- 00:58:20application forms but as I said at the
- 00:58:22beginning they will not go live till
- 00:58:25Monday and that's deliberately to give
- 00:58:27you some thinking time to make sure that
- 00:58:30this is right for you and to discuss it
- 00:58:33so thank you very much for your time
- 00:58:36thank you Jack for managing the
- 00:58:38questions and we hope to be meeting and
- 00:58:41hearing from some of you soon so good
- 00:58:46night thanks very much
- 00:58:55everyone e
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