Online open Evening for Balliol College Access programmes for year 12 State School Students.

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Summary

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.

Takeaways

  • 🧠 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.

Timeline

  • 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.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    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.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    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.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    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.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    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.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    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.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    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.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    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.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    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.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:50:00

    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.

  • 00:50:00 - 00:59:29

    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.

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Video Q&A

  • 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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  • 00:00:10
    good evening and welcome to bayal
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    College online uh tonight you are going
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    to hear about three of our sustained
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    contact programs called florat Frontier
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    and
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    fibon um first of all I just introduce
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    myself my name is pahi and I'm run all
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    the programs um with the assistance of
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    my colleague Jack who you can see on the
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    top of the screen at the
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    moment so we might have people joining
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    late and we will just allow them to join
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    as they do uh I'm just going to ask Jack
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    are you able to see the slide on the
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    screen can you just let me know yeah
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    absolutely fine lovely okay so the
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    format of this evening is that we will
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    give you quite a chunk of information
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    about the three programs so that will
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    involve learning about what each of them
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    focus on in terms of content how they
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    are structured the time commitment
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    involved uh costs what people have gone
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    on to do from them so I have uh muted
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    your microphones and please don't touch
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    the slides either this is being recorded
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    um and we're doing that so that people
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    who are arriving late or who haven't
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    been able to get here tonight are able
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    to see the recording and so you can go
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    back on have a look at what's talked
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    about right so um after we've talked
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    about all our I'm just going to ask
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    anyone who's got their microphone on to
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    please mute
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    it and I'm going to ask people not to
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    touch the slides either okay so we can
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    all um just get on
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    the R I think you're muted
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    there sorry think I for some reason I
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    was muted there you are also going to
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    have an opportunity toar here from
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    students who've been on the program this
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    year and also to ask any questions at
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    the end so on the first slide you've got
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    some pictures on a glorious summer day
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    which came from one of our
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    residentials and uh you can see that
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    we've got a large group photo that's
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    like the whole of one program about 40
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    odd people there and then a closeup
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    slide you know we get always have
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    beautiful weather at Bor for these res
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    presidentials
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    uh you're muted again Prov I'm not sure
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    why that keeps
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    happening right keep letting me know
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    Jack I don't know why that's doing that
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    uh so just to say it's really important
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    to consider the content of the programs
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    because there may be different options
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    there may be more than one option
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    for gone on mute again uh there may be
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    more than one option according to the a
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    level choices that you actually
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    do um and there might be particular
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    subjects that are more in more than one
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    of the programs so that's something else
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    to
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    consider so just a bit of background
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    information about this college then so
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    this college is over 750 years old and
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    actually we were the college that
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    pioneered the idea of coming to Oxford
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    on Merit rather than to do with
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    associations or your school background
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    Etc we do have particular links with
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    schools in different areas of the
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    country and they're currently
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    hartfordshire Norfolk suffk and Scotland
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    but just to say really importantly these
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    programs are open to you from any area
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    of the country and we do have students
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    from Scotland and Wales on these
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    programs as
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    well so why do we why do we bother
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    spending the time and money sort of
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    running on these programs there um first
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    of all we know that there are a lot of
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    able students out there who have the
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    potential to thrive at Oxford but are
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    put off it for some reason that could be
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    you're just not feeling confident enough
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    or someone's told you something about
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    Oxford that makes you feel you wouldn't
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    belong there so what we've decided to do
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    with these programs is give you an
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    exposure first to the kind of level of
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    teaching you would get as a first year
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    undergraduate um to experience the type
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    of teaching can I just ask you all to
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    mute your microphone
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    please if you haven't done already so we
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    want to expose you to the level and the
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    type of teaching that You' get and
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    that's why with this program the
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    commitment is important because you will
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    have to
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    do the idea of doing the work to prepare
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    for sessions kind of mirrors what would
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    actually happen at Oxford so it's
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    important that you you have that
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    experience we also know from experience
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    and research that people who've had the
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    opportunity to come to the environment
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    and experience the teaching are much
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    more likely to apply because you feel
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    less nervous having gone through it and
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    particularly gaining from the tutorial
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    so it's the sustained contact in
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    particular right throughout the program
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    through the tour online sessions and
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    then the residential at the end that
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    seems to work best in terms of
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    encouraging people to feel at home and
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    to go on and apply so we'll dig into the
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    detail in a moment but just to be clear
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    about a few things so these programs are
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    super curricular so they are beyond the
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    classroom learning so what they're not
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    is they're not going to duplicate any a
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    level content content that you might be
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    getting in school or IB if you're doing
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    that obviously they might make links to
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    it or develop a topic at a higher level
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    but they they're not there to repeat
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    what you're already
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    doing um what they should be doing I
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    think is encouraging you to go and
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    explore further on your own giving you
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    ideas it might be things to go and read
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    on your own
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    or you're muted again provide I'm not
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    sure we got a way of sort of changing
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    the settings quickly to stop that cuz I
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    think someone must be muting
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    you um I'm just going to carry on Jack
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    and you can you can have a look around
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    if someone's stupid enough to do that I
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    don't know why they'd be bothering
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    attending so please please don't please
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    actually respect what's going on
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    here um you're going to be taught by
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    people who are involved in undergraduate
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    teaching so they might be teaching first
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    is they might be involved in the
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    admissions process they might be our
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    actual tutors as well and the other
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    thing that you're going to benefit
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    from is the network so the other people
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    who join the program benefiting from a
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    network of support from people with sort
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    of similar uh Ambitions you know maybe
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    there's no one else in your school who's
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    thinking about Oxford or Cambridge it's
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    you're not compe meeting with each other
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    you're there to support each other and
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    we have about 40 places on each
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    program what you have to bear in mind is
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    that you know if you have put on your
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    personal statement that you've taken
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    part in one of these programs it's not a
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    kind of back door or um you know that
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    means I'm going to get a place the point
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    is you'll have had an experience of what
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    the teaching and learning is like but
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    it's not necessarily going to mean that
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    your application would be more favorable
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    and if you do write about your
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    experience you need to really focus on
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    the learning that you've done in terms
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    of Knowledge and
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    Skills um I think that's pretty much it
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    really so I suppose what I'm getting at
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    is it's about the spirit so only apply
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    for these programs if you really
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    genuinely a passionate about
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    learning um and have the time in your
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    life to be able to fulfill the
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    commitments that we're going to talk
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    about so we are going to deal with
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    questions at the end so I'm not going to
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    respond to any of those at the
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    moment okay so what we're going to do
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    now is start by looking at each of the
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    programs in
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    detail so the florat program is a
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    humanities-based program it's a very
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    broad program so there will be content
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    that comes from a whole range of
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    different subjects so for example
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    English History
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    law um philosophy economics so there
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    only be one session normally on each of
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    these more on
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    History um but bear in mind it's it's a
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    really broad program and some of those
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    topics are probably subjects that you
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    haven't had the opportunity to explore
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    before
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    so you can see that florat runs on a
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    Wednesday evening so that's 2 hours a
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    2our slot for our seminar
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    sessions and it will begin with an
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    introductory meeting in February and
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    then you can see on the screen the list
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    of sessions so where there are gaps you
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    know you can probably work it out we've
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    got half terms got Easter holidays Etc
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    so it goes all through the spring term
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    it goes into the summer term but stops
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    well before the end of the summer term
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    because a lot of you have internal
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    exams and as I said you will be set work
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    to do for each session which will talk
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    about how you access that a bit
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    later so if we move on to our next slide
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    that's about our science-based program
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    Frontier so this one runs on a Tuesday
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    evening same time slot you'll see the
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    dates are obviously slightly different
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    because it's Tuesday but it's a similar
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    time period so after you've completed
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    all the online
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    component you basically should by that
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    time in the year have an idea about
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    which subject or subjects you're most
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    likely to apply for at degree
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    level and you'll you'll have to decide
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    which one you want your tutorial on and
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    then you'll be set some tasks that you
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    you need to complete in relation to that
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    ready for the
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    residential and then the third program
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    is Fibonacci so what that is is a math
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    based program so most of the people who
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    come on Fibonacci are thinking about
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    maths as a degree as a single or joint
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    honors but they may be thinking about
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    other degrees uh you know like for
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    example physics or engineering or
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    something like that that makes use of a
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    lot of
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    maths again you can see the dates up on
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    screen don't worry about you know
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    remembering these they'll be on the
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    website but you can get a sense then
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    that it is all the spring term half the
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    summer term again similar time in the
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    evening but this time on Monday's
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    similar kind of
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    Demands so we will have an application
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    process that means that you a you're
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    sort of applying for one of these
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    programs before Christmas and we would
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    let you know hopefully before Christmas
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    ready to start with either an end of
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    January introductory meeting or a
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    meeting at the beginning of the February
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    the the um sort of introduction it
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    explains what it's going to be like in
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    more detail make sure that you can find
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    all the materials that you need so most
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    most of the program is based online so
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    that means you need to make sure that
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    you have a reliable internet
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    connection it's also expected that you
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    are attending every session not like
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    I'll come to the ones that I fancy
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    that's not how it works and you need to
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    set aside the time to do the work for
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    the sessions because if you don't they
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    become meaningless because you won't
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    understand the material so we say that
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    it's not going to be more than 2 hours a
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    week but you have to think realistically
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    you know if you've got a part-time job
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    if you're struggling with a levels
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    already uh you know you might have other
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    commitments as well can you do yourself
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    Justice you is it going to cause you too
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    much stress is it the right thing for
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    you there might be other programs or
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    other experiences that are better for
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    you as an individual so you'll be able
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    to access materials that you need
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    through the
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    website okay so in the summer term as I
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    said we we begin to finish the online
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    sessions at the beginning of the summer
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    term because we know people have exams
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    often internal exams but we will ask you
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    to choose at that point the topic for
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    your
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    tutorial we give you the work that you
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    need to do for your tutorial in plenty
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    of time and you'll know the residential
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    date so please don't book a holiday when
  • 00:15:02
    you're due to come on the residential
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    because we can't change the
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    residential um and what that residential
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    does is it's short but it's busy and it
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    will give you the opportunity apart from
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    taking part in a
  • 00:15:16
    tutorial to explore Oxford to spend time
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    with each other to have some
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    subject-based
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    workshops perhaps some lectures you
  • 00:15:27
    might have some sessions in a m Museum
  • 00:15:30
    you'll have time to do things on your
  • 00:15:32
    own as well you might have a personal
  • 00:15:34
    statement
  • 00:15:37
    meeting so I'm going to talk in a bit
  • 00:15:39
    more depth now about the content of each
  • 00:15:42
    of these programs and just for people
  • 00:15:44
    who weren't here at the beginning as I
  • 00:15:46
    said there may be some of you who would
  • 00:15:49
    be eligible for more than one program
  • 00:15:52
    you can only apply for one program so
  • 00:15:55
    you have to think about the content of
  • 00:15:57
    the program and also so the relevance to
  • 00:16:01
    your current a levels and what you're
  • 00:16:03
    thinking about doing so with Floria it's
  • 00:16:06
    Humanities based as I said it's actually
  • 00:16:08
    focused around an undergraduate history
  • 00:16:12
    module on the Cold War many people have
  • 00:16:15
    studied the Cold War at gcsc or a level
  • 00:16:18
    there'll be other people who studied
  • 00:16:20
    history but but haven't that's no
  • 00:16:23
    barrier that's nothing to worry about
  • 00:16:26
    and what we do is view the Cold War
  • 00:16:28
    through the lens of different subjects
  • 00:16:30
    so for instance in an English module
  • 00:16:32
    we'd look at literature from the cold
  • 00:16:35
    war in an art history module would be
  • 00:16:37
    looking at paintings and other artifacts
  • 00:16:40
    from the Cold War we'd be looking at
  • 00:16:42
    legal issues relating to war in the law
  • 00:16:45
    seminar and so and and so forth and an
  • 00:16:49
    advantage of doing that is that you've
  • 00:16:52
    got a genuinely
  • 00:16:54
    multidisciplinary approach to a period
  • 00:16:58
    in history but you're really getting the
  • 00:17:00
    benefit from different subject
  • 00:17:02
    perspectives and the material will come
  • 00:17:05
    from University books there'll be
  • 00:17:08
    Journal
  • 00:17:09
    articles um sometimes it might be some
  • 00:17:12
    video clips as well to read you're not
  • 00:17:14
    going to be reading whole textbooks you
  • 00:17:16
    would be reading you know a chapter of a
  • 00:17:20
    textbook Frontier so Frontier in terms
  • 00:17:24
    of science it's really focused on the
  • 00:17:27
    life sciences um it's very varied so for
  • 00:17:31
    example last year we've had modules on
  • 00:17:33
    biology biochemistry chemistry
  • 00:17:37
    bioengineering medicine so there's a lot
  • 00:17:39
    of um focused on on this sort of
  • 00:17:43
    interface between different areas like
  • 00:17:46
    bioengineering biology and Engineering
  • 00:17:49
    looking at how they work together to
  • 00:17:51
    solve different contemporary problems we
  • 00:17:54
    might be looking at topics like genetics
  • 00:17:57
    Etc so you know for this program you do
  • 00:18:02
    need well we've got a strong preference
  • 00:18:04
    for two science a levels so most people
  • 00:18:07
    tend to have biology and chemistry
  • 00:18:10
    that's not a specific requirement we do
  • 00:18:12
    have some people who've gone on to
  • 00:18:13
    physics from this program but you have
  • 00:18:15
    to think about the relevance for you in
  • 00:18:18
    terms of Fibonacci well there's a lot of
  • 00:18:21
    maths um there are some examples of
  • 00:18:24
    topics there so we take topics that are
  • 00:18:26
    explored in the first year of the
  • 00:18:28
    undergrad graduate degree but we also
  • 00:18:31
    look at other areas that use math like
  • 00:18:34
    for example economics just to broaden it
  • 00:18:37
    out and some computer science elements
  • 00:18:40
    in
  • 00:18:41
    there it is also worth saying I think
  • 00:18:44
    that the content changes from year to
  • 00:18:46
    year so different people teach on the
  • 00:18:48
    program they bring their ideas and
  • 00:18:51
    sometimes we will have different
  • 00:18:54
    material uh as well so if you speak to
  • 00:18:56
    someone who who was on theam program
  • 00:18:59
    this year that's great but don't just
  • 00:19:00
    think I really want that particular
  • 00:19:03
    module or tutor obviously like school
  • 00:19:05
    that's not necessarily going to
  • 00:19:07
    happen Okay so why apply well hopefully
  • 00:19:11
    as I said because you are passionate
  • 00:19:14
    about learning you want to push
  • 00:19:17
    yourself uh you're thinking of an
  • 00:19:20
    academically stretching University and
  • 00:19:23
    you want to see what that sort of
  • 00:19:25
    experience of teaching and learning
  • 00:19:27
    would be like like and you also have the
  • 00:19:30
    time to do it it will really give you an
  • 00:19:34
    understanding of how University style
  • 00:19:36
    teaching is different from a levels from
  • 00:19:38
    school teaching and
  • 00:19:40
    specifically um Oxbridge teaching where
  • 00:19:43
    you get the Ono one element it will also
  • 00:19:47
    give you the chance to try out some very
  • 00:19:49
    new subject material perhaps develop
  • 00:19:51
    some new skills and as I say really
  • 00:19:53
    create a network for yourself of
  • 00:19:56
    likeminded people which hope you'll
  • 00:19:59
    carry on with through
  • 00:20:01
    life who should apply well there will be
  • 00:20:06
    um a bit more information on the website
  • 00:20:10
    but these are the basic elements of it
  • 00:20:13
    you have to be in year2 or S5 you can
  • 00:20:17
    see that on our website you need to be
  • 00:20:20
    in a state
  • 00:20:22
    school um you need to be aspirational so
  • 00:20:25
    you need to have in mind really that you
  • 00:20:27
    want to apply to Oxbridge or at least to
  • 00:20:31
    Russell group
  • 00:20:33
    University we don't set a specific
  • 00:20:37
    number of gcss you can see a little bit
  • 00:20:40
    more about that on our website but
  • 00:20:42
    strong GCSE performance obviously the
  • 00:20:45
    gcss that relate to the program so if
  • 00:20:49
    you're going for science program You'
  • 00:20:51
    we'd expect you to have strong Science
  • 00:20:53
    grades and if you're applying to
  • 00:20:56
    Humanities program strong grades for for
  • 00:21:00
    that um you what you can't do is be
  • 00:21:04
    involved in any other sustained contact
  • 00:21:07
    program and that's not like oh we we're
  • 00:21:10
    against other universities or anything
  • 00:21:12
    what that's about is being realistic
  • 00:21:15
    about your time commitments year 12 is
  • 00:21:18
    busy you'll be doing lots of other
  • 00:21:20
    things some of you do your Juke of
  • 00:21:22
    Edinburgh your your epq whatever so you
  • 00:21:25
    have to be realistic and you don't need
  • 00:21:28
    to do loads and loads of things because
  • 00:21:29
    actually the most important thing is to
  • 00:21:32
    get really good a level
  • 00:21:34
    grades so if you're going to apply for
  • 00:21:37
    Floria our strong preference is for you
  • 00:21:39
    to have two sa based a levels or
  • 00:21:44
    equivalent for science um our strong
  • 00:21:48
    preference is for you to have two
  • 00:21:50
    science-based subjects for
  • 00:21:53
    Fibonacci well obviously you need to be
  • 00:21:55
    doing a level maths we don't say you
  • 00:21:58
    have have to be doing further masth
  • 00:22:00
    because a lot of students don't get the
  • 00:22:01
    opportunity in their six forms to do it
  • 00:22:04
    we've had quite a few students who have
  • 00:22:06
    been self-taught
  • 00:22:08
    um but so obviously you need to be keen
  • 00:22:12
    on Ma you can again you'll see more
  • 00:22:15
    detail on our website um we're
  • 00:22:18
    particularly Keen to attract students
  • 00:22:21
    from under represented groups and also
  • 00:22:24
    from students who maybe come from
  • 00:22:26
    schools where no one's actually um being
  • 00:22:29
    successful in applying talks that before
  • 00:22:31
    would be good to see people coming there
  • 00:22:33
    and also we are interested particularly
  • 00:22:37
    in recruiting service
  • 00:22:40
    children okay so um I skipped a slide
  • 00:22:45
    there by accident Just for
  • 00:22:48
    information I've given you a sort of
  • 00:22:50
    breakdown of some of the degrees the
  • 00:22:53
    former participants have gone on to
  • 00:22:55
    study so with florat as I said it's a
  • 00:22:57
    broad program and it's not a surprise
  • 00:23:00
    that students have gone on to study a
  • 00:23:02
    really wide range of different degrees
  • 00:23:05
    from anthropology and
  • 00:23:07
    archaeology theology politics obviously
  • 00:23:11
    I think you wouldn't be surprised that
  • 00:23:12
    lots of them want to do history in
  • 00:23:14
    English
  • 00:23:15
    maybe um but it is a really broad range
  • 00:23:18
    there with Frontier again it's pretty
  • 00:23:21
    broad biology chemistry biochemistry
  • 00:23:24
    computer science geography maths
  • 00:23:25
    medicine Neuroscience biomedical science
  • 00:23:29
    we couldn't put them all on there
  • 00:23:31
    couldn't fit them all on the slides
  • 00:23:33
    Fibonacci um well as I said it's
  • 00:23:35
    math-based and lots of people are
  • 00:23:37
    interested in maths or joint honors like
  • 00:23:40
    math and stats or math with computer
  • 00:23:43
    science um but we have had students a
  • 00:23:46
    number of students on economics and
  • 00:23:48
    Engineering materials and physics so
  • 00:23:51
    possibly narrower than some of the
  • 00:23:53
    others but still pretty
  • 00:23:56
    broad so important important to allay
  • 00:23:59
    your fears then so we don't charge for
  • 00:24:02
    this program you get the materials
  • 00:24:04
    through the website um you know you're
  • 00:24:07
    you're doing it online you need you do
  • 00:24:09
    need to make sure you've got a good
  • 00:24:10
    broadband connection as I said when it
  • 00:24:13
    comes to the residential so that is free
  • 00:24:16
    we provide the
  • 00:24:17
    accommodation and the food etc for free
  • 00:24:22
    with travel Arrangements oh where have
  • 00:24:24
    my slides gone something has happened
  • 00:24:27
    there
  • 00:24:29
    and we will have to reshare them but I
  • 00:24:32
    will talk while we do that with travel
  • 00:24:35
    Arrangements if you um are struggling
  • 00:24:39
    around Finance for that then we have
  • 00:24:43
    particular criteria about providing
  • 00:24:46
    money for travel so sorry about this I
  • 00:24:48
    will just flick through to that slide we
  • 00:24:50
    need to go on
  • 00:24:53
    again um
  • 00:24:55
    yeah you know you don't have to worry
  • 00:24:58
    about whether you're clever enough I've
  • 00:25:00
    told you a little bit about you know
  • 00:25:02
    having strong GCSE grades you can see
  • 00:25:05
    that on our
  • 00:25:06
    website actually it would be really good
  • 00:25:08
    to have people who think they won't fit
  • 00:25:10
    in because that's one of the parts of of
  • 00:25:13
    you know the program to help people
  • 00:25:15
    experience the environment and see who
  • 00:25:18
    is at Oxford and help you feel that you
  • 00:25:20
    would fit in and it doesn't matter if
  • 00:25:22
    you've got no idea right now whether um
  • 00:25:26
    you know you want to study philos
  • 00:25:28
    philosophy or politics or chemistry or
  • 00:25:31
    medicine again that's one of the other
  • 00:25:33
    aspects that this program will help you
  • 00:25:36
    with you're only a few years into year
  • 00:25:38
    12 that you know by the time you have
  • 00:25:41
    sort of got to the stage of the
  • 00:25:43
    residential you would have to have a
  • 00:25:46
    pretty good idea if you were applying to
  • 00:25:48
    Oxford or Cambridge because of the
  • 00:25:49
    earlier entrance date but right now you
  • 00:25:52
    might well not know what you want to
  • 00:25:54
    study but these are really sorry can I
  • 00:25:57
    jump in are you sides res shared on your
  • 00:26:00
    screen yes yeah I can't see them I don't
  • 00:26:02
    know about anybody else but I've got
  • 00:26:04
    nothing here it's got the red border
  • 00:26:07
    saying that they are
  • 00:26:09
    shared I see them we can see I can't say
  • 00:26:13
    them
  • 00:26:14
    either I I'll leave and
  • 00:26:16
    rejoin can't see
  • 00:26:19
    them I can't see them
  • 00:26:22
    either we can see them can't see them so
  • 00:26:26
    I think the answer is if if you can't
  • 00:26:29
    see them just just leave and rejoin cuz
  • 00:26:32
    my screen is saying that they're shared
  • 00:26:35
    and obviously some people are I mean
  • 00:26:37
    this is one of the things that happens
  • 00:26:38
    with teams occasionally so I'll just
  • 00:26:41
    pause for a moment and allow people to
  • 00:26:43
    do
  • 00:26:45
    that leaving and rejoined it fixed it
  • 00:26:48
    for me okay so I'll just I'm just gonna
  • 00:26:52
    pause a moment to allow people to just
  • 00:26:54
    do that if you've got a problem
  • 00:27:06
    okay
  • 00:27:08
    so this section is about things to
  • 00:27:11
    really
  • 00:27:13
    consider um you have to be able to
  • 00:27:16
    attend all of the sessions so that's the
  • 00:27:19
    introductory meeting you know the online
  • 00:27:21
    sessions and the residential it's not
  • 00:27:23
    I'll drop in and I'll drop
  • 00:27:26
    out we get large numbers of students
  • 00:27:29
    applying for this program so it's very
  • 00:27:32
    irritating if people don't make use of
  • 00:27:35
    it when we know we could have taken so
  • 00:27:37
    many more
  • 00:27:39
    people and if it's that you're really
  • 00:27:41
    only interested in one subject element
  • 00:27:44
    there will be other things that you can
  • 00:27:46
    do that would be really um very targeted
  • 00:27:50
    and specific for you so you really need
  • 00:27:53
    to be clear about that the other thing
  • 00:27:57
    is as with most things you only get out
  • 00:28:00
    what you put into something so you will
  • 00:28:03
    be in a group of 20 online we take 40
  • 00:28:07
    for each program but we run two sessions
  • 00:28:09
    so you're in a group of 20 and you do
  • 00:28:12
    need to be willing to contribute to the
  • 00:28:16
    discussions um you know the these
  • 00:28:19
    sessions are not recorded so you've got
  • 00:28:23
    the Privacy that's why we don't produce
  • 00:28:25
    recordings of the sessions and it's fine
  • 00:28:28
    to use your microphones and have your
  • 00:28:31
    cameras on you know you've got the
  • 00:28:32
    support of the group around you you're
  • 00:28:34
    you're all wanting the same things and
  • 00:28:37
    you have to have that time available to
  • 00:28:39
    do the prep because if you don't then
  • 00:28:42
    the online teaching isn't going to make
  • 00:28:44
    sense for you so it becomes a bit of a
  • 00:28:46
    waste of time and that's why it's a good
  • 00:28:49
    idea to have a chat with your teachers
  • 00:28:51
    because you know you have to keep up
  • 00:28:54
    with your a level work and ultimately is
  • 00:28:57
    your a level grades that will determine
  • 00:28:59
    whether you get that place or not um
  • 00:29:02
    you'll you might get an offer but each
  • 00:29:04
    year people don't end up at the
  • 00:29:06
    universities they want to go to
  • 00:29:08
    particularly Oxford or Cambridge because
  • 00:29:11
    they haven't met the in um the you know
  • 00:29:14
    the minimum entrance grades so you have
  • 00:29:18
    to be honest with yourselves about this
  • 00:29:21
    I would advise having a discussion with
  • 00:29:23
    your head of six or subject teachers or
  • 00:29:27
    so parents sharing the date with them
  • 00:29:29
    and thinking about any after school
  • 00:29:31
    activities that you do because if
  • 00:29:33
    they're on the night that this these
  • 00:29:35
    particular sessions take place then
  • 00:29:38
    you've got a
  • 00:29:40
    problem okay uh there are some quotes
  • 00:29:43
    from previous participants on the screen
  • 00:29:47
    and what will be even better than that
  • 00:29:50
    of course we'll be hearing from some of
  • 00:29:52
    the previous participants but I'm just
  • 00:29:54
    going to pick up on a few of the
  • 00:29:56
    different things that they got there and
  • 00:29:58
    it says one quote really stressing how
  • 00:30:01
    that student enjoyed meeting people who
  • 00:30:05
    thought about things in a similar way
  • 00:30:07
    you had similar
  • 00:30:09
    aspirations uh I think you know other
  • 00:30:11
    people really enjoying the experience of
  • 00:30:14
    being at oxid on the residential and the
  • 00:30:16
    insight into Student
  • 00:30:19
    Life um other people were talking about
  • 00:30:21
    the tutorials you know they were worried
  • 00:30:23
    they thought tutorials would be severe
  • 00:30:25
    that the teachers would be harsh that
  • 00:30:28
    was an important aspect of the program
  • 00:30:31
    for
  • 00:30:32
    them so what we're not going to do is
  • 00:30:36
    spend lots and lots of time answering
  • 00:30:38
    questions where you can find information
  • 00:30:41
    on the website and by watching the
  • 00:30:44
    recording so just to make this bit
  • 00:30:47
    really clear for people at the moment
  • 00:30:49
    the application form isn't on the
  • 00:30:51
    website we don't put it up there until
  • 00:30:55
    we've done this open evening because we
  • 00:30:57
    don't want people
  • 00:30:58
    applying having not listened to the
  • 00:31:02
    information so what will happen is that
  • 00:31:06
    tomorrow we will do an update of that
  • 00:31:09
    website and we will put
  • 00:31:12
    applications on the on the website at
  • 00:31:14
    that point a link to the application
  • 00:31:18
    form but it won't open for a couple of
  • 00:31:21
    days it won't actually open until uh
  • 00:31:24
    Monday to make sure you've had time to
  • 00:31:26
    do some reflection about it and you'll
  • 00:31:29
    see that there are different deadlines
  • 00:31:31
    for each
  • 00:31:33
    program um when you complete the
  • 00:31:36
    application it will ask you questions it
  • 00:31:38
    will ask you questions like can you
  • 00:31:40
    commit to all the sessions again and
  • 00:31:43
    have you you know talked about it with
  • 00:31:45
    your parents are they happy for you to
  • 00:31:47
    do it Etc so you you need to take your
  • 00:31:50
    time and make sure you've done that
  • 00:31:54
    properly what else is there well it
  • 00:31:56
    might be after tonight that you think
  • 00:31:58
    well you know I'm interested in Oxford
  • 00:32:01
    or whatever but I don't I'm not ready to
  • 00:32:04
    make that kind of commitment I need to
  • 00:32:06
    focus on my a levels and all of that is
  • 00:32:09
    perfectly understandable so I'm just
  • 00:32:11
    going to tell you briefly about some
  • 00:32:12
    other
  • 00:32:14
    opportunities we at the University run a
  • 00:32:16
    scheme called unique so that is for year
  • 00:32:20
    12 students and state schools but it's
  • 00:32:24
    specifically targeted at those from
  • 00:32:27
    under repes presented backgrounds again
  • 00:32:29
    particularly those who are economically
  • 00:32:31
    disadvantaged so there are very strict
  • 00:32:33
    eligibility criteria you can have a look
  • 00:32:36
    at it on the University website that
  • 00:32:39
    will also entail um teaching and a
  • 00:32:44
    residential um there are lots of subject
  • 00:32:48
    tast to days I mean we run a whole group
  • 00:32:51
    of these between March and June where
  • 00:32:54
    you come into college you have some
  • 00:32:56
    lectures and workshops run by our tutors
  • 00:32:58
    in that subject area you watch a
  • 00:33:01
    demonstration interview you have a tour
  • 00:33:04
    with our undergraduates so there are
  • 00:33:05
    real subject specific insight for
  • 00:33:09
    example in history or physics and
  • 00:33:12
    philosophy or chemistry or biology so
  • 00:33:15
    those might be more um appropriate to
  • 00:33:18
    people who don't want a kind of
  • 00:33:20
    sustained contact but some small amounts
  • 00:33:23
    of contact on a very specific subject it
  • 00:33:27
    might be that you want to access some of
  • 00:33:29
    our online resources um so we have
  • 00:33:32
    guides for each kind of degree biology
  • 00:33:36
    chemistry history English philosophy and
  • 00:33:39
    they're just some resources um that you
  • 00:33:41
    might explore if you're interested in
  • 00:33:43
    that topic and they're divided up into
  • 00:33:45
    things like reading or videos podcasts
  • 00:33:48
    it's not a to-do list it's just to dip
  • 00:33:50
    in and for you to find things you're
  • 00:33:53
    interested in or it could be that you
  • 00:33:55
    particularly want to take part in some
  • 00:33:58
    competitions they can be really good
  • 00:34:00
    things to add to your personal statement
  • 00:34:04
    they showcase your ability but hopefully
  • 00:34:07
    you'll have learned something new on
  • 00:34:08
    them you might want to come to some
  • 00:34:11
    faculty open days at the University you
  • 00:34:14
    know the English faculty and the math
  • 00:34:16
    faculty run open days or there are the
  • 00:34:20
    uh open days that the whole university
  • 00:34:23
    runs come the
  • 00:34:24
    summer um it runs three of those soort
  • 00:34:27
    of this this year it will be early in
  • 00:34:30
    July and then another one in September
  • 00:34:32
    so that's when all of the university is
  • 00:34:34
    open and you can go to departments you
  • 00:34:36
    can go to colleges
  • 00:34:38
    Etc we have a bulletin of all the
  • 00:34:41
    opportunities at Oxford you know from
  • 00:34:44
    departments and colleges that we send
  • 00:34:46
    out to schools so it's worth asking your
  • 00:34:49
    teachers if they receive that and if
  • 00:34:51
    they don't but they would like it then
  • 00:34:54
    they we will um happily put them on the
  • 00:34:56
    list and then they can disseminate those
  • 00:34:59
    opportunities to you so there's lots out
  • 00:35:02
    there it's not just this and you just
  • 00:35:04
    have to think what's right for
  • 00:35:06
    you so there's an email address on
  • 00:35:10
    screen there Outreach baal. ox.
  • 00:35:15
    ac.uk if after you've been through
  • 00:35:19
    tonight's session and you've had a
  • 00:35:21
    chance to ask questions but you go away
  • 00:35:24
    and think of something else then you can
  • 00:35:26
    always email um this is a very busy time
  • 00:35:29
    of year for us because we're about to go
  • 00:35:31
    into the admissions period so we will
  • 00:35:33
    respond to you but there may be a bit of
  • 00:35:36
    a
  • 00:35:37
    delay so that's a lot of me talking um I
  • 00:35:42
    know some people have Miss slides joined
  • 00:35:45
    late so we might have to recap here and
  • 00:35:47
    there but that's not a problem so I'm
  • 00:35:49
    going to stop sharing my screen for the
  • 00:35:52
    moment and I'm
  • 00:35:55
    hoping um that in a minute we'll be able
  • 00:35:58
    to go to some of the students who
  • 00:36:00
    participated in the programs this year
  • 00:36:02
    but before I do that Jack is there
  • 00:36:04
    anything you want to add before we move
  • 00:36:07
    on to that
  • 00:36:09
    bit no I don't think so I think we've
  • 00:36:11
    covered everything um pretty well I will
  • 00:36:13
    just say obviously this session has been
  • 00:36:14
    recorded So if people have missed stuff
  • 00:36:16
    I know a few people say they haven't
  • 00:36:17
    been able to see slides all the way
  • 00:36:18
    through the recording will be available
  • 00:36:20
    for you so you don't feel like you've
  • 00:36:21
    missed anything um by not being able to
  • 00:36:24
    see or having to drop in and out or
  • 00:36:25
    anything like that
  • 00:36:28
    great thank you so I'm hoping and maybe
  • 00:36:31
    Jack you've had an opportunity to see
  • 00:36:33
    that we were expecting uh some students
  • 00:36:36
    from all three programs so Flor at
  • 00:36:39
    Frontier and Fibonacci
  • 00:36:41
    tonight and what we can do is pose some
  • 00:36:45
    questions from the chat but if you want
  • 00:36:50
    to ask something that you haven't put in
  • 00:36:53
    the chat then you can raise your hands
  • 00:36:54
    and we'll try that or if we don't get
  • 00:36:56
    many questions that's fine we'll we'll
  • 00:36:58
    just ask them what their sort of
  • 00:37:00
    highlights were what their reservations
  • 00:37:02
    were about applying but um I'm going to
  • 00:37:05
    be quiet now for a bit and I'm going to
  • 00:37:07
    hand over to you jack for the next
  • 00:37:09
    section thank you that's brilliant thank
  • 00:37:12
    you if we've got any people who were
  • 00:37:13
    here who've been on one of the programs
  • 00:37:14
    can you turn your cameras on if that's
  • 00:37:16
    possible or your mics on and just say
  • 00:37:18
    hello just so we can see who we've got
  • 00:37:20
    hi Jack
  • 00:37:22
    hi hi perfect cool Hello um brilliant so
  • 00:37:28
    we have people I can't see you got too
  • 00:37:31
    many people in the meeting or what but
  • 00:37:32
    that's fine as long as you're here
  • 00:37:33
    that's the main thing
  • 00:37:36
    um does anybody I tell you what uh I'm
  • 00:37:40
    just going to look through the questions
  • 00:37:41
    quickly
  • 00:37:43
    um does anyone want to start and just
  • 00:37:46
    say what they just a brief overview of
  • 00:37:49
    what you thought of the program and if
  • 00:37:51
    there was anything that you thought sort
  • 00:37:53
    of surprised you or anything that you
  • 00:37:55
    were worried about that then you know
  • 00:37:57
    you realized it wasn't something you
  • 00:37:58
    should be particularly worried about
  • 00:38:00
    anyone want to jump in and talk quick
  • 00:38:02
    talk
  • 00:38:04
    quickly I can start with that if you
  • 00:38:06
    want yeah please Joe yeah that'd be cool
  • 00:38:09
    um I think like one thing that might put
  • 00:38:12
    people off applying to Floria especially
  • 00:38:15
    is how broad the course is but um you
  • 00:38:20
    you'd be surprised as to how interl
  • 00:38:22
    every subject you do is like I've got um
  • 00:38:25
    I've got my notes from the sessions
  • 00:38:27
    actually here and this is the history of
  • 00:38:29
    art session which I didn't actually
  • 00:38:31
    think would be that interesting but you
  • 00:38:33
    can see how many things have like
  • 00:38:35
    circled and highlighted and stuff and
  • 00:38:38
    some of these notes actually made it
  • 00:38:39
    onto my personal statement and I was
  • 00:38:41
    talking about a history of art session
  • 00:38:43
    in a PPE personal statement and it just
  • 00:38:46
    shows that although this florat program
  • 00:38:49
    might be very Broad and you might think
  • 00:38:51
    oh what's the point in me doing like so
  • 00:38:53
    many history programs if I'm trying to
  • 00:38:55
    apply for philosophy but the program is
  • 00:38:57
    really well curated and if you are
  • 00:39:00
    passionate about your subject you will
  • 00:39:02
    find something in every single session
  • 00:39:04
    that you
  • 00:39:07
    do it's brilliant Joe thank you um I
  • 00:39:10
    just wonder can I ask anyone who have
  • 00:39:12
    done this has done one of the programs
  • 00:39:13
    before did anybody do 4 a levels and how
  • 00:39:16
    did you find the workload around doing 4
  • 00:39:18
    a levels and being on one of the
  • 00:39:20
    programs Finn I can see you you're
  • 00:39:23
    there yeah so I'm doing math SP maths
  • 00:39:26
    physics and chemistry on F and I think
  • 00:39:30
    in this case there wasn't too much of a
  • 00:39:33
    problem because there's a lot of overlap
  • 00:39:34
    between the four especially math maths
  • 00:39:37
    and physics um it's important to keep on
  • 00:39:40
    top of it but I think that it depends
  • 00:39:42
    what a levels you're taking because I
  • 00:39:44
    can see if you've got a different
  • 00:39:45
    combination it could be very different
  • 00:39:47
    than a much higher workload but that's
  • 00:39:49
    that's what it was like
  • 00:39:51
    to that's brilliant Finn thank you um
  • 00:39:54
    who else have we got who else is here
  • 00:39:56
    that was on the last year yeah I'm here
  • 00:39:59
    Abby I was FR sorry that's okay Abby do
  • 00:40:03
    you want to just introduce quickly and
  • 00:40:04
    just say what El was you studied yeah um
  • 00:40:07
    I studied biology chemistry and math and
  • 00:40:09
    I did
  • 00:40:10
    Fran brilliant thank you and I'm so
  • 00:40:12
    we've got someone else as well yeah I'm
  • 00:40:15
    here so I'm I'm Freddy and I take
  • 00:40:19
    IB uh and then High I do maths politics
  • 00:40:23
    Spanish which I know is um very
  • 00:40:25
    different but I did uh I did Fibonacci
  • 00:40:29
    yeah brilliant thank you um would
  • 00:40:31
    someone like to just speak quickly about
  • 00:40:33
    the the work you had to do before each
  • 00:40:35
    session in terms of how much it was
  • 00:40:37
    whether you enjoyed it whether you think
  • 00:40:39
    you know how how you manage managed that
  • 00:40:41
    alongside your A
  • 00:40:45
    Levels I mean I'm happy to talk about
  • 00:40:48
    Frontier um yeah please so a lot of ours
  • 00:40:52
    was like mainly scientific article based
  • 00:40:54
    so we mainly got an article a week about
  • 00:40:56
    like a new topic but I found it really
  • 00:40:59
    accessible because for loads of the
  • 00:41:00
    sessions we normally got a video leading
  • 00:41:02
    up that gave us loads of context so took
  • 00:41:05
    it from like a really basic level which
  • 00:41:07
    made it really easy to build on it so I
  • 00:41:10
    don't do physics but with all the
  • 00:41:11
    resources that I was given I still found
  • 00:41:13
    the physics sessions really accessible
  • 00:41:15
    um I thought the information was really
  • 00:41:16
    easy to access it was always really
  • 00:41:17
    interesting but like it definitely took
  • 00:41:20
    the two hours recommended so I would be
  • 00:41:22
    prepared for that
  • 00:41:28
    yeah I mean with the Floria program it
  • 00:41:32
    is quite similar in that you do you do
  • 00:41:34
    need to spend the two hours doing the
  • 00:41:36
    preparation because if you try going to
  • 00:41:38
    the subject or the seminar completely
  • 00:41:41
    unprepared it won't go well and you
  • 00:41:43
    won't be able to extract anything from
  • 00:41:45
    it so for us we got usually like an
  • 00:41:49
    article or a chapter or two to read
  • 00:41:52
    before every seminar and we would start
  • 00:41:55
    the seminar by
  • 00:41:58
    talking just discussing similar how you
  • 00:42:00
    would in a oxid tutorial of what we've
  • 00:42:02
    read what we thought about it building
  • 00:42:04
    on our ideas and then um and then the
  • 00:42:07
    tutor would kind of take us where they
  • 00:42:09
    want us to go and we just build on the
  • 00:42:11
    discussion so I I found all of the
  • 00:42:14
    pre-readings very interesting obviously
  • 00:42:17
    some more than others but um as long as
  • 00:42:20
    you do spend the time and dedicate some
  • 00:42:23
    effort into doing what you need to do
  • 00:42:26
    you will be able to like extract what
  • 00:42:28
    you need to from every session and the
  • 00:42:29
    workload shouldn't get too
  • 00:42:34
    much I don't mind speaking for
  • 00:42:37
    Fibonacci um so our like pre-reading
  • 00:42:41
    material was quite different um what I
  • 00:42:44
    just heard from Floria and uh Frontier
  • 00:42:47
    we we normally had problem sheets like
  • 00:42:51
    on the topic that we're going to look at
  • 00:42:54
    in the session um and so definitely like
  • 00:42:57
    there was no way you could have gone
  • 00:42:59
    into the meeting without having like
  • 00:43:02
    spent the like the full two hours or
  • 00:43:04
    however long it takes on the problem
  • 00:43:05
    sheet because we began the sessions by
  • 00:43:09
    looking over the answers and then we
  • 00:43:12
    then built on everything we did in the
  • 00:43:15
    problem sheet
  • 00:43:17
    so I but I also wouldn't be put off by
  • 00:43:21
    the amount of time you have to spend on
  • 00:43:23
    the problem sheets because they were
  • 00:43:25
    they were really really enjoyable and
  • 00:43:26
    obviously if you're looking to apply for
  • 00:43:29
    Fibonacci or whatever other course
  • 00:43:31
    you're clearly already very passionate
  • 00:43:33
    about your subject so should be able to
  • 00:43:35
    find the find the prereading as
  • 00:43:38
    enjoyable as I
  • 00:43:44
    did that's brilliant thank you um and
  • 00:43:46
    then can somebody mind just quickly
  • 00:43:48
    speaking about the the Seminars the
  • 00:43:51
    online seminars you had and sort of how
  • 00:43:53
    interactive were they what you thought
  • 00:43:55
    of them um just yeah there someone's
  • 00:43:58
    asked about
  • 00:44:10
    those you go first I don't
  • 00:44:15
    know oh wait no sorry let's say Abby
  • 00:44:18
    Abby Abby speak
  • 00:44:20
    first um okay uh I would say the science
  • 00:44:23
    seminars were really interactive um from
  • 00:44:26
    what I can remember there was always
  • 00:44:27
    loads of questions in the chat for us to
  • 00:44:29
    answer um especially like I remember lot
  • 00:44:32
    of the chemistry ones we would like
  • 00:44:33
    they' put a question up like on the
  • 00:44:35
    board and then we'd work for it and then
  • 00:44:36
    they'd show us all their working outs
  • 00:44:37
    which was really interesting um some of
  • 00:44:40
    them were more sort of satb back but
  • 00:44:42
    also there was like videos and like
  • 00:44:43
    different diagrams and pictures and
  • 00:44:45
    stuff and uh lecturers were always more
  • 00:44:47
    than willing to answer questions any
  • 00:44:49
    time through the cemar so they did feel
  • 00:44:51
    really interactive and you were more
  • 00:44:53
    than welcome to make them as interactive
  • 00:44:55
    as possible if you are there and present
  • 00:44:58
    and yeah doing like giving them like
  • 00:45:01
    it's paying attention and interacting as
  • 00:45:03
    much as
  • 00:45:07
    possible um with with Floria I think the
  • 00:45:12
    thing that made the seminars so
  • 00:45:14
    enjoyable was how interactive they were
  • 00:45:17
    like in every seminar you sometimes
  • 00:45:20
    would learn more from the other people
  • 00:45:22
    in Floria than you would from the tutor
  • 00:45:24
    and it the whole thing revolves around a
  • 00:45:27
    huge group discussion and let's say the
  • 00:45:31
    this week's seminar is philosophy for me
  • 00:45:33
    I don't take philosophy but there were
  • 00:45:35
    some people in the seminars who did take
  • 00:45:37
    philosophy and I was able to learn so
  • 00:45:39
    much from their comments and their
  • 00:45:41
    discussions and it pushed me to want to
  • 00:45:43
    learn more and to put in like the extra
  • 00:45:46
    effort read something that was mentioned
  • 00:45:48
    in the seminar and just expand my own
  • 00:45:51
    knowledge based on what they said so
  • 00:45:54
    yeah it's hugely interactive and
  • 00:45:56
    extremely
  • 00:46:00
    enjoyable I think especially for um
  • 00:46:05
    Frontier um because the tutorials were
  • 00:46:08
    always led by PhD students that the
  • 00:46:12
    students were always happy and almost
  • 00:46:14
    always did sort of end their
  • 00:46:16
    presentations by pulling up a couple of
  • 00:46:19
    slides of their research so after maybe
  • 00:46:21
    covering the theory for about an hour
  • 00:46:23
    and a half they' sort of say oh well now
  • 00:46:25
    we've learned this here's my research
  • 00:46:28
    and this graph and that equation and
  • 00:46:32
    that's the practical application of what
  • 00:46:33
    we've been learning about and they're
  • 00:46:35
    always happy to chat about their
  • 00:46:37
    research or what their future plans were
  • 00:46:39
    which I thought was really useful
  • 00:46:41
    because before the frontier progo I
  • 00:46:43
    didn't really know what I wanted to do
  • 00:46:45
    but it was definitely quite an eye
  • 00:46:47
    opening experience so yeah they're
  • 00:46:52
    great yeah and similarly with Flor out
  • 00:46:55
    we always got like five or 10 minutes at
  • 00:46:57
    the end where we could just discuss
  • 00:46:59
    about application processes or like any
  • 00:47:02
    recommendations for things that are Tut
  • 00:47:04
    to sound incredibly useful reading and
  • 00:47:07
    things that they would recommend us
  • 00:47:08
    reading so yeah it was really cool to be
  • 00:47:10
    able to like interact with them and get
  • 00:47:12
    to know them quite well and um yeah like
  • 00:47:16
    the opportunity was was
  • 00:47:20
    great that's brilliant thanks everybody
  • 00:47:23
    um I wonder if someone can talk about
  • 00:47:26
    the residential slightly so what you
  • 00:47:28
    thought of it whether you found it
  • 00:47:29
    helpful um again if there's anything
  • 00:47:31
    that you surprise you about it who wants
  • 00:47:33
    to jump in
  • 00:47:35
    first I would love to speak about the
  • 00:47:38
    residential because I thought it was so
  • 00:47:41
    amazing I I loved it so much I thought
  • 00:47:44
    that um from the sessions I'd already
  • 00:47:47
    like gauged sort of what people I'm
  • 00:47:50
    around but when I when I got to the
  • 00:47:52
    residential it was completely different
  • 00:47:55
    like every kind of um
  • 00:47:57
    when I was in sessions I I I didn't
  • 00:47:59
    think much of the other people but the
  • 00:48:01
    people were so nice on the program and I
  • 00:48:04
    also I kind of had this worry that like
  • 00:48:08
    I I wasn't really gonna fit in or um the
  • 00:48:13
    other people especially kind of with the
  • 00:48:16
    like
  • 00:48:17
    mathematics stereotypes that nobody was
  • 00:48:21
    going to be social and whatever but it
  • 00:48:23
    was it was so amazing and I loved
  • 00:48:26
    speaking to everybody like who had
  • 00:48:28
    similar interests to me and I think I
  • 00:48:31
    think the main thing um was the tutorial
  • 00:48:35
    the tutorial was so great so it was only
  • 00:48:39
    me and um one other one
  • 00:48:43
    other guy on the guy on Fibonacci with
  • 00:48:46
    with a PhD student who's clearly so
  • 00:48:49
    passionate about the subject and it was
  • 00:48:51
    just great to speak for like an hour
  • 00:48:54
    about his his biggest passion so that
  • 00:48:57
    was so incredible I could talk for so
  • 00:48:59
    long but I I won't but
  • 00:49:03
    yeah billi thanks Freddy anyone else
  • 00:49:05
    have anything they want to say very
  • 00:49:06
    quickly about
  • 00:49:08
    residential I think the oh sorry Joseph
  • 00:49:11
    you go first oh it's okay you go first
  • 00:49:15
    cheers um I think the best thing about
  • 00:49:17
    the residential was because the year 12
  • 00:49:19
    application summer is such a scary time
  • 00:49:22
    that meeting people that are actually in
  • 00:49:24
    the same spot as you going to the the
  • 00:49:26
    same stuff as you interested in the same
  • 00:49:28
    stuff was just such a relief because it
  • 00:49:31
    was honestly the most one of the most
  • 00:49:32
    scary experiences of my life but
  • 00:49:34
    honestly meeting these people and like
  • 00:49:36
    Freddy said the tutorials are absolutely
  • 00:49:39
    fantastic and they're really quite
  • 00:49:41
    relaxed as well it's not it's sort of a
  • 00:49:44
    scary environment or anything like that
  • 00:49:46
    and the food is amazing as well the food
  • 00:49:48
    is probably good
  • 00:49:52
    yeah yeah I mean I was pretty much going
  • 00:49:55
    to say what Milo said meeting people
  • 00:49:57
    that are going through the exact same
  • 00:49:58
    thing as me was so fun and I mean I'm
  • 00:50:01
    still friends with a lot of people on
  • 00:50:03
    Floria and we regularly go to the
  • 00:50:05
    British Library together and study
  • 00:50:07
    together read over each other's personal
  • 00:50:09
    statements and stuff so yeah meeting
  • 00:50:12
    people that I'm going to be friends with
  • 00:50:13
    for a while was was so incredible and um
  • 00:50:17
    yeah my tutorial was really really fun
  • 00:50:20
    it was about one of my favorite topics
  • 00:50:22
    democratization and democracy and I got
  • 00:50:25
    to write a 000w essay on literally my
  • 00:50:28
    favorite Topic in the world and then
  • 00:50:30
    talk for an hour or an hour and a half
  • 00:50:33
    about like literally my favorite thing
  • 00:50:35
    that I could spend days talking about so
  • 00:50:39
    yeah it's an incredible opportunity and
  • 00:50:42
    I think once you get to the point where
  • 00:50:44
    you're choosing what subject you're
  • 00:50:46
    going to do your tutorial and you're
  • 00:50:47
    pretty clear on what you want to study
  • 00:50:49
    University as well so it's very unlikely
  • 00:50:53
    that you'll get like work that you have
  • 00:50:55
    to do that you won't enjoy enjoy any
  • 00:50:58
    work that you'll get set like you will
  • 00:51:00
    enjoy if you're picking the right
  • 00:51:02
    subject if you know I
  • 00:51:06
    mean I'm just gonna come in and just
  • 00:51:08
    follow up on something that um Joseph
  • 00:51:11
    said there with all these programs you
  • 00:51:15
    know I talked about one of the things
  • 00:51:17
    that you need to consider is your
  • 00:51:20
    participation because what you put in
  • 00:51:23
    will determine what you get out but the
  • 00:51:26
    other thing to
  • 00:51:27
    remember is that the teaching at Oxford
  • 00:51:30
    involves these small groups these
  • 00:51:32
    tutorials normally two or three students
  • 00:51:35
    and and in that
  • 00:51:37
    situation you know you can't hide at the
  • 00:51:40
    back of the room you do need to be
  • 00:51:43
    prepared to participate so this whole
  • 00:51:46
    program is quite a gentle introduction
  • 00:51:48
    to that you get your opportunities
  • 00:51:51
    online within that closed Group which is
  • 00:51:54
    why we don't record sessions so you can
  • 00:51:57
    talk about your own
  • 00:51:59
    views um and then in the tutorials those
  • 00:52:02
    are just as you would have them but you
  • 00:52:04
    do have to remember that you need to
  • 00:52:08
    enjoy
  • 00:52:09
    participating in that way voicing your
  • 00:52:12
    opinion and evidencing it with examples
  • 00:52:16
    so that's another thing to think about
  • 00:52:18
    so obviously the students here have been
  • 00:52:21
    through it enjoy talking doesn't mean
  • 00:52:23
    they're all boisterous and loud it's not
  • 00:52:25
    about that it's just developing your
  • 00:52:28
    confidence to express yourself verbally
  • 00:52:32
    because that is the key to the teaching
  • 00:52:35
    here you know we have the bigger group
  • 00:52:37
    teachings the lectures and things like
  • 00:52:40
    that but at the heart of it is the
  • 00:52:41
    tutorial system so it's really important
  • 00:52:45
    to be able to explore
  • 00:52:48
    that Jack have we got any um anything
  • 00:52:51
    else that's just come into the chat it's
  • 00:52:54
    really great to see all of you back
  • 00:52:57
    again so thank you it's nice to see
  • 00:52:59
    people from all three
  • 00:53:01
    programs there is actually a question
  • 00:53:02
    that I think you should answer Prov I
  • 00:53:04
    think because it keeps cropping up about
  • 00:53:06
    people asking what exactly um being on
  • 00:53:10
    another sustained contact program
  • 00:53:12
    entails and where's the line between
  • 00:53:13
    what we deem as being on another program
  • 00:53:16
    or
  • 00:53:16
    not yeah well there are programs like
  • 00:53:19
    this that for example Cambridge has
  • 00:53:22
    scheme um runs a sustained contact
  • 00:53:25
    program where you can MIT to a number of
  • 00:53:27
    tutorials and you do work for those
  • 00:53:30
    there's something similar well as I said
  • 00:53:32
    you just simply don't need to do both of
  • 00:53:34
    them it's not about us not wanting you
  • 00:53:37
    to do things with other universities
  • 00:53:40
    it's about being realistic about what
  • 00:53:42
    you can commit to and you know you've
  • 00:53:44
    heard students here talking about well
  • 00:53:46
    it does take the couple of hours you
  • 00:53:48
    can't do that for a number of programs
  • 00:53:51
    you know if it's a tast a day if it's
  • 00:53:53
    going to you another University for a
  • 00:53:56
    day
  • 00:53:57
    or you know you're listening to some
  • 00:53:59
    online lectures or something because
  • 00:54:01
    you're interested fine but some another
  • 00:54:03
    program that takes like this one does
  • 00:54:06
    actually it's a period of over nine
  • 00:54:08
    months you're just not going to manage
  • 00:54:10
    to do that without compromising your
  • 00:54:13
    grades and that's the most important
  • 00:54:15
    thing of all um so you just need to
  • 00:54:19
    consider that and obviously you might
  • 00:54:22
    have applied to other programs um you
  • 00:54:25
    may get a place you may not um but
  • 00:54:29
    there's quite a gap between us
  • 00:54:32
    advertising this and the deadline so you
  • 00:54:34
    need to obviously wait till you know the
  • 00:54:36
    result but what I can't really do is get
  • 00:54:39
    into individual discussions about this
  • 00:54:41
    program or that program um you know you
  • 00:54:45
    can always email me about them and I'll
  • 00:54:47
    I'll make I'll have a think about it if
  • 00:54:50
    I don't know them but sustained means
  • 00:54:53
    over a long period of time it's very
  • 00:54:55
    different from you going on a visit or a
  • 00:55:04
    oneoff anything else from the chat Jack
  • 00:55:07
    that we haven't picked up or we might
  • 00:55:08
    want to ask um our students
  • 00:55:11
    here um not particularly for the
  • 00:55:15
    students here there's a there's another
  • 00:55:17
    question that keeps cropping up about um
  • 00:55:19
    the application process itself but that
  • 00:55:21
    will all go on the website so we'll see
  • 00:55:23
    that once we um put the links on the
  • 00:55:26
    application forms for you all to apply
  • 00:55:28
    starting from tomorrow
  • 00:55:31
    um I think does anyone here did anyone
  • 00:55:34
    or is anyone applying for
  • 00:55:37
    engineering no that's fine um because
  • 00:55:40
    that question keeps cropping up about
  • 00:55:41
    engineering and whether they should
  • 00:55:43
    apply for Fibonacci or Frontier um both
  • 00:55:47
    would yes I am not applying for
  • 00:55:50
    engineering but when I was on the
  • 00:55:52
    residential I I probably would say go
  • 00:55:55
    for Fibonacci for engineering because
  • 00:55:57
    there were a lot of engineering
  • 00:55:59
    applicants on the Fibonacci
  • 00:56:01
    residential I think I I mean I agree
  • 00:56:04
    with you Freddy the thing I'm going to
  • 00:56:06
    keep um pointing people back to is think
  • 00:56:10
    about your current a levels and how the
  • 00:56:13
    programs fit best with those because if
  • 00:56:16
    you're interested in engineering you're
  • 00:56:18
    probably doing maths and physics maybe
  • 00:56:21
    maths and further maths in which case
  • 00:56:24
    that's definitely fibon Ary for you uh
  • 00:56:28
    because if you're doing that and you're
  • 00:56:30
    not doing two Sciences then you haven't
  • 00:56:33
    got another opportunity anyway but you
  • 00:56:37
    know if you're going for Frontier
  • 00:56:39
    remember that's mainly the life sciences
  • 00:56:41
    so yes I did say that we had some
  • 00:56:44
    modules on things like
  • 00:56:46
    bioengineering um which which is the
  • 00:56:49
    sort of interface of different sciences
  • 00:56:51
    and how they work together but mainly I
  • 00:56:54
    would say Fibonacci
  • 00:57:03
    okay well it's time so I'm going to
  • 00:57:06
    first of all thank all of the students
  • 00:57:09
    who've joined us from taking part in the
  • 00:57:11
    programs tonight and more
  • 00:57:13
    importantly wish you luck with your
  • 00:57:16
    applications um it's really nice that we
  • 00:57:20
    have students at bail who have literally
  • 00:57:22
    just joined as freshers from each of the
  • 00:57:25
    three programs so you know for you this
  • 00:57:27
    could be you in a year's time or another
  • 00:57:31
    uh College in O but thank you very
  • 00:57:33
    much for taking the time to kind of pay
  • 00:57:37
    it forward that's the spirit of the
  • 00:57:39
    program so thank you so much for joining
  • 00:57:41
    us for everyone else who've joined thank
  • 00:57:43
    you for taking the time out I think it's
  • 00:57:46
    really helpful to hear this in some
  • 00:57:50
    detail and for you to be able to go back
  • 00:57:52
    over it um I will just respond to the
  • 00:57:55
    psych ology question that comes up a lot
  • 00:57:58
    so we will treat psychology as a science
  • 00:58:02
    but in terms of the program that you do
  • 00:58:06
    you have to make up your mind really are
  • 00:58:08
    you really doing science a levels in
  • 00:58:11
    which case it's probably Frontier or
  • 00:58:13
    more of the Humanity's person so the
  • 00:58:16
    recording will go up on the website
  • 00:58:18
    tomorrow we'll put the links for the
  • 00:58:20
    application forms but as I said at the
  • 00:58:22
    beginning they will not go live till
  • 00:58:25
    Monday and that's deliberately to give
  • 00:58:27
    you some thinking time to make sure that
  • 00:58:30
    this is right for you and to discuss it
  • 00:58:33
    so thank you very much for your time
  • 00:58:36
    thank you Jack for managing the
  • 00:58:38
    questions and we hope to be meeting and
  • 00:58:41
    hearing from some of you soon so good
  • 00:58:46
    night thanks very much
  • 00:58:55
    everyone e
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