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Ongoing Opportunities
Watch the Women of the Future videos on YouTube for insights and advice from their Ambassadors. They include how the ambassadors have been affected by Coronavirus and how they are managing, and a "What I wish I knew when I was 17" video where ambassadors share advice for their younger selves.
These organisations also provide good resources, events, support and talks.
Developing work and life skills.
Summer schools in virtually all subjects.
Summer Career Experiences - Live Online
Choose from a range of live online summer career experiences, with programmes for two age groups.
The Smallpeice Trust aims to inspire and support young engineers in the making. Ignition courses are for Years 8 and 9.
Summer schools across a wide range of subjects.
Taster courses and summer schools.
Cyber security courses from the National Cyber Security Centre.
Courses to inspire and support young engineers.
Engineering taster courses for Year 12.
Courses for Years 10 and 11.
Taster courses and summer schools.
University taster days and summer courses.
Search for university taster days, subject tasters, summer schools and other events.
Find dates for university open days across the UK.
InvestIN runs immersive career experiences for 15-18 year olds across a wide range of careers. They also run summer internships, offering work experience for ages 15-18 in London and Silicon Valley.
Immersive career experiences for 15-18 year olds across a wide range of careers.
Summer schools across a wide range of subjects.
The Lawyer Portal is a website for anyone considering a legal career, from the creators of The Medic Portal. It is partnered with the Bar Council and CILEX, and its content is written by lawyers with contributions from leading law firms.
It has free guides on the LNAT, applying to study law, and the different routes into law, including apprenticeships and the CILEX pathway. It also lists work experience, events, mock trials and summer schools. Some of its courses and events are paid.
Medical work experience abroad. It is essential you gain experience in the UK too.
Courses and information about applying for Medicine.
Work experience courses.
Current medical school interview questions with structured model answers written by experienced practising tutors.
For GCSE and A level students. Complete anatomical dissections led by human anatomist Samuel Piri and his clinical team, plus an introduction to the UCAT and BMAT.
For Potential Medics
The Medic Portal
UCAT, BMAT and MMI courses and conferences, plus The Medic Portal Aspire event.
Premed Projects
A guide to getting into medical school, plus hospital work experience. You must get UK experience even if you also do experience abroad.
Medical Careers Seminar at The Ark, Basingstoke
Usually runs in the Autumn Term, organised by the North Hampshire Medical Fund. Keep an eye on their events page. Dr Verney will also advertise this when she receives information about it.
Runs courses for aspiring dentists.
Flying Fish is a training provider based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, offering professional qualifications for careers at sea. Their courses cover working on superyachts as a deckhand or steward/ess, becoming an RYA Yachtmaster, watersports instruction, and the STCW safety training needed to work on commercial vessels.
Their career paths pages are a good place to start if you are finishing school and curious about working on the ocean. They also run gap year programmes.
Cyber security courses from the National Cyber Security Centre.
Debate Chamber
Taster courses and summer schools for pupils aged 11-14 (Scientists, Thinkers, Lawyers, Doctors and Writers) and aged 15-18 across nearly all areas, including medicine, law, science and the humanities.
InvestIN
Immersive career experiences for 15-18 year olds. They also run summer internships, offering work experience for ages 15-18 in London and Silicon Valley.
Headstart & Inspire
Headstart is a charitable trust providing hands-on STEM activities and engineering taster courses to encourage young people into technology-based careers.
Taking place at some of the top universities, the courses are perfect for Year 12 students to find out about the exciting career opportunities a degree course might lead to. Broad-based engineering courses give a flavour of many engineering disciplines, and focus courses provide an insight into highly specialised fields.
Stay up to date by joining the EDT Facebook group and following them on Twitter @TheEDTUK.
Smallpeice Trust
The Smallpeice Trust aims to inspire and support young engineers in the making, and runs a number of courses.
Pure Potential
A regularly updated events board listing lots of brilliant experiences, programmes, insight days and taster sessions from leading institutions such as The Sutton Trust, UCL, The Royal Society of Medicine, The Inner Temple, PRIME Legal Work Experience, EY and many more.
Immerse Education.
Search for local and online events in your area of interest.
