Secondary and College Opportunities

Activities for Secondary Schools and Colleges

The Schools Engagement Team is now able to offer a programme of events and activities for students both on our Waterside Campus, in your schools/colleges and other locations including London.

We are happy to share our Secondary and Colleges Opportunities 2024-2025 booklet (PDF, 3 MB) with you. This is where you will find out all the details about opportunities and activities including:

  • The Business Game
  • Drama in Action (IDEK Theatre Company)
  • EPQ
  • Mindstorms Masters
  • Pathway Pioneers
  • Project 13
  • Project Party
  • Revision Boost
  • Saturday Club: Art & Design
  • Saturday Club: Film & Screen
  • STEAM Northants
  • Traineeship: Media
  • Traineeship: Podiatry
  • UNI Club
  • Word Warriors +
  • Word Warriors

The Aspire Higher programme is a partnership between the Universities of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northampton. Aspire Higher connects local schools and colleges with universities and employers, helping you to access opportunities for your learners. We also run targeted outreach activity with local schools to support you in giving learners exposure to HE experiences and in meeting the Gatsby benchmarks.

The Aspire Higher programme, part of the national initiative called Uni Connect, is funded to raise aspirations and support learners living in areas of deprivation.

There is a range of targeted opportunities for students in our schools; please see the list of Aspire Higher schools for Northamptonshire.

The Aspire Higher Hub website hosts an ever-growing range of workshops, online opportunities, online modules of learning, video resources and signposting designed to support students, adult learners, parents and families.

Check out these photos from our school engagement events this academic year! These events are all about broadening the horizons of young people from secondary schools and colleges across Northamptonshire. Our events promote inclusion and showcase the diverse paths available in higher education.

If you are interested in finding out more, registering your interest or booking your pupils into an event please check if you are one of our Partner Secondary Schools and then email us at schoolsengagement@northampton.ac.uk

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