Disadvantaged children STEM boost from Oxbridge £6.5m donation
The money will be used to fund three outreach projects taking place at the university from October 2025.The first is a targeted GCSE maths mentoring programme, designed to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds by giving them weekly maths tutorials.About 850 students will benefit from it in the first four years, the university said.The second project is an expansion of an online outreach programme for 14-19 year olds to help them develop physics and maths skills.The programme has been running sine 2021, but the university said the donation would expand it from 500 participating students per year to 1,200.The money will also support the bridging programme, an initiative for students during the period between receiving an offer and completing their first year as an undergraduate.At Cambridge, the money will fund two programmes that are also designed to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds succeed in STEM.Whilst the two universities will run the programmes separately, they will share resources and materials, Oxford University said.
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