West Midlands Webinar Series

The webinars will cover various aspects of applying to, preparing for and studying at Oxford and Cambridge, and will be suitable for any student hoping to apply to competitive universities. If you’re a high-achieving student (aiming to achieve above AAA at A Level), intellectually curious and ambitious, then these webinars will be a great start for your university journey. 

These are suitable for any student aiming to apply for competitive universities, not just Oxford or Cambridge.
 

Format

These sessions will be run using the platform Zoom. As these sessions will run as webinars, your camera and microphone will not be enabled, and you will only be able to communicate with the hosts/panelists running the session by typing questions into the Q&A box. 

Joining details will only be sent via email to those with a confirmed place (if you've applied, remember to check spam!).  The programme is designed to follow on from one another, and as such students are very strongly encouraged to make the time to attend live, and attend as many of these sessions as possible. You will gain the most benefit from doing so!

Every session will feature a representative from each of Cambridge and Oxford. 

To apply for this programme, you must meet all of the following criteria:

• You will be in Year 12 
• Your school/sixth form does not charge fees (to anyone - you are not eligible if you are attending an independent/fee-paying school on a scholarship or bursary)
• Your school is located in one of the following regions: Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Herefordshire, Sandwell, Shropshire, Solihull, Staffordshire, Stoke-On-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton, Worcestershire.*

*Eligiiblity is based on school location. If you travel outside of your county for school e.g. into Gloucestershire, you are not eligible for this programme.

We hope to offer as many students as possible a place on these webinars, and expect to be able to take all eligible applicants as we have in previous years. However, if we have more applications than places available, we will prioritise students who match one or more of the following criteria:

• Have lived, or are currently living, in local authority care
• Are eligible, or have been eligible within the past six years, for free school meals
• Are a refugee
• Have caring responsibilities for a family member
• Live in neighbourhoods with low overall progression rates to higher education
• Have no parental history of higher education
• Have a disability

Applications to guarantee joining the live sessions have now passed, but if you meet the eligibility criteria and sign up by 20th October, you will receive temporary recording access to the sessions plus the follow-up email at the end of the series. If so - click here to apply. 

We expect to be able to accommodate all eligible students interested so please do not hesitate to sign up. Applications are on a rolling basis, so if you have found this after the sessions have begun, please still sign up.

The sessions are designed to lead on from one another, so attending all is strongly encouraged but not required. Temporary access to recordings of the sessions will only be available at the end of the series, but you must sign up in order to receive these or catch up on earlier sessions missed. You will not be able to access the sessions after the temporary access expires, so wherever possible, we'd recommend attending live - not least because you will get the most out of asking questions during the actual session!