by Mark Cousins | May 14, 2015 | Oxpress
We at Insight Education are working with Oxbridge Tutorial College (OTC) to improve access for Nigeria to the UK’s top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge. Alongside improving A-Level grades by working with students at OTC, we are also offering parents at its feeder schools in Lagos help with improving students’ IGCSE grades. By doing so, we aim to help students achieve the best position to unlock the doors to top UK universities. Our Oxbridge Mentoring Scheme broadens and deepens students’ subject knowledge beyond the A-level curriculum, teaches critical thinking skills and helps them write the highest calibre UCAS personal statements. It also provides frameworks for tackling Oxbridge-style questions so students can gain the confidence to face any interview scenario. Of the OMS students who were called for Oxbridge interviews between 2006 and 2014, approximately 52% secured offers, far higher than the average Oxbridge application success rate of approximately 20% (2014 Oxford and Cambridge application statistics). Those students that don’t get called to interviews at Oxford or Cambridge go on to secure places at other top UK universities such as the London School of Economics, King’s College and Imperial College by virtue of the standards of their UCAS personal statements. For a taste of university level tutoring, parents can send their children to the Oxbridge Summer School (3-8 August at OTC). Graduates from Oxford and Cambridge universities will cover a range of topics to inspire student learning in a fun environment, help them bridge the study skills gap between A-level and university courses and provide OMS activities such as UCAS brainstorming and mock academic interviews. For updates, follow this weekly blog on the Oxbridge Summer School. Please...
by adminWP | May 11, 2015 | Newsflash
Leading sixth form college Oxbridge Tutorial College (OTC) in Lagos has signed a partnership agreement with London-based educational advice service Insight Education to raise aspirations among its pupils to apply to Oxford and Cambridge (“Oxbridge” means both in the UK), and other top UK universities. While access to general UK universities is fairly well established in Nigeria, there is much less provision for access to the Russell Group (the top association of 24 prestigious British public research universities) and particularly Oxford and Cambridge. In 2014 only 2 from 132 Nigerian applicants were accepted to study at Oxford and none have been recorded for Cambridge since 2013. OTC will change that through running Insight Education’s OMS in-house and running its first Oxbridge Summer School this summer (3-8 August). OTC aims to be THE centre of excellence in raising the aspirations of Nigerian students and develop the country’s leaders of the future. The Oxbridge Mentoring Scheme (OMS) is the brainchild of Oxford-educated Joyce Connell, Director of Insight Education. She has built a track-record of helping students secure places at Oxford and Cambridge universities from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and those without a family history of studying there. Director Joyce Connell says that “At its heart, our approach is simple. Our OMS tutors stretch students beyond the school curriculum, nurture informed opinions, hone essay writing technique, and teach critical thinking and creative problem-solving. We’re looking forward to piloting our approach through Oxbridge Tutoring...
by adminWP | May 7, 2015 | Newsflash
Mr. Nick Waite, principal of Bellerbys College Cambridge, made a much appreciated visit to Oxbridge Tutorial College last week. The relationship between Oxbridge and Bellerbys kicked of in 2013 when we recognised the difficulty faced by many local students wanting to gain admission to the top medical schools in the UK. As a home student in the UK bagging one of these coveted spots is a difficult task. Multiply that ten fold if you’re an international student! Having identified Bellerbys as a premium institution with similar goals and objectives as Oxbridge we created the first of our Medical Pathway programmes (MP1) aimed at the strongest and brightest students. (This has recently been complemented with our Medical Pathway 2 programme, in collaboration with DIFC in Ireland, offering students with more varied abilities the opportunity to study medicine in a broader range of institutions). On the day, Mr. Waite, along with two members of their local team (Mrs. Yetunde Perraire and Mrs. Adedayo), took part in our Valedictory Service followed by a session with our MP1 students and some of their parents. Mr Waite took the time to speak to his audience about: The UCAS Personal Statement. The Job Shadow scheme. The UKCAT and BMAT tests. Extra curricular activities at Bellerbys. Application choices. Scholarship offers. For intending Medical students, Mr Waite elaborated on how the UCAS Personal Statement must be robust and must showcase other sterling qualities and achievements of the students with work placement activities. What’s next for the MP1 students? They’ve got a 2 week work placement at The Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton at the end of the summer! It’s going to be a very...
by adminWP | May 6, 2015 | Oxpress
At Oxbridge we work hard to expand our network of partner universities. We always find it extremely satisfying and rewarding when a delegate of one of these institutions visits in person. It gives us the opportunity to put faces to names and the students the opportunity to be inquisitive and grow from what they learn and the overall experience. The 27th of May, 2015 was the most recent of these exciting and educative times. Dr.Terry Cousens and his team from the University of Leeds, UK visited the college. Dr.Cousens from the Department of Civil Engineering, enlightened the students on the educational possibilities not only in his university, but also in the UK generally. Incidentally, about 1o Oxbridge alumni are currently studying in University of Leeds and some of them the related their experiences via a video shown by the visiting team. It is of note that University of Leeds is also part of the NCUK that has a partnership with OTC. Stay tuned! We have upcoming visits from Nick Waite of Bellerby College (OTC Medical Pathway 1) and Ray Halpin of DIFC (OTC Medical Pathway 2). Interested in undertaking one of our Medical Pathways? Perfect opportunity to ask questions and meet the people involved in making these programmes possible. Get in touch and visit...
by adminWP | May 5, 2015 | Oxpress
‘Go in this your Might’, was the theme of the 2014/2015 Valedictory Service of 30th April, 2015. This encapsulated all the activities that marked the event, where we students were sent forth into the world by the college. There were prayers from priests, exhortations from parents and a jolly time to bid farewell to friends. A major highlight of the day was the closing remark by the Managing Director of OTC, Dr.(Mrs.) C. O. Ogunsanya who reeled out the things that made the 2014/2015 set a unique one not least of which were the various life-changing programmes we have been privileged to experience at the college. We now know, we are more than equipped to face the world. OXPRESS...
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