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2005 UNIVERSITY ADMISSSIONS and GAP YEARS
How will the introduction of top up fees in 2006 affect students hoping to start at university in 2005, the last year before they come into force? Rather than paying £1,125 each year in upfront fees, from 2006 students will pay fees of up to £3000 each year - but not until after they graduate.
Libby Purves is joined by Connie Cullen, Director of Admissions at York University, Richard Oliver, Chief Executive of the Year Out Group and Owen Wilkes, a gap year student, to discuss how University admissions and students’ gap year plans might be affected in 2005.
GHANA
Gill Norris, Head of Science at the TunbridgeWells Girls School in Kent has forged a link with one of the most deprived and remote communities in Ghana. Since 1997, girls from the Lower Sixth have been spending four week periods in Ghana helping to teach in schools.
The girls, who are carefully selected at the beginning of year-11 for their ability to work as a team and their commitment to the programme, have to raise the money for their trip. In addition, their aim over the next six years is to raise £150,000 to support and fully equip ten more schools. Sara Parker talks to the next team of girls about their hopes and aspirations.
GLOBAL TEACHERS PROGRAMME
The Link Community Development’s (Link) Global Teachers Programme sends teachers out to Africa on professional development programmes for five-week summer holiday placements in rural South Africa, Uganda or Ghana.
Libby Purves talks to Link’s Chief Executive Stephen Blunden about the Global Teacher Programme.
CURRY HOUSE REVISION
Manchester City Council has funded a city wide programme of revision courses with a difference. The English revision course for the year-11 pupils of Burnage High takes place in the Sanam curry house in Rusholme, south Manchester. Stephen Perry eavesdrops on one of the lessons and talks to an enthusiastic student, Taib Saleem.
Libby Purves talks to Barry Morrison, Deputy Education Officer at Manchester City Council to find out how the new scheme will help children reach their potential.
Additional information:
Year Out Group
Association of leading year out organisations that was formed in 1998 to promote the concept and benefits of well-structured year out programmes, to promote models of good practice and to help young people and their advisers in selecting suitable and worthwhile projects. The Year Out Group is a not-for-profit organisation.
Ghana Education Project with TWGGS
Ghana registered charity 10793991
Tunbridge Wells Girls School
Year In Industry
Charity based, not for profit organisation that organises work-based gap years in the UK. They act as the ‘agent’ between the student and the company and focus mainly on the engineering and IT side of industry.
Link Community Development
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