Oxford for North East

Who are we?

Although University of Oxford colleges have been working with schools across the North-East for many years, students from your area are still under-represented at Oxford and we want this to change. It's time for a new approach!

Christ Church, St Anne’s College and Trinity College work collaboratively across the University of Oxford to run Oxford for North East, our community outreach programme in your area, with support from Lincoln College.  This programme enables us to provide better and more bespoke support for students, parents and teachers.  

Christ Church	Trinity College	St Anne’s College	Lincoln College

Aim

Our aims are ambitious:

• For students in the North-East to enjoy their learning, to think big and become independent learners
• To inspire students of all ages and from all backgrounds to have the confidence to be themselves and to be ambitious about their futures
• To improve the educational opportunities of all students
• To encourage more students from the North-East to aim for top universities and to achieve their goals
• By 2023, to increase the number of students from currently under-represented groups from 15% of the current UK undergraduate intake to 25% of the UK undergraduate intake
• For Oxford University to be a realistic goal for anyone with academic talent and commitment.

 For more details on the research underpinning these commitments, please see the University of Oxford's Access and Participation Plan.

Working together

We work closely with North East schools and colleges in the following areas:
Gateshead, Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland, Cleveland, Darlington, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Stockton on Tees. We are also developing partnerships with local authorities, multi academy trusts, community organisations, local universities and social mobility organisations.
The colleges will also continue their existing work in their link areas of Barnet (Christ Church), Hillingdon and Southwark (St Anne's) and Oxfordshire (Trinity).

Please note that if you or your school do not fall into our access categories, there is still plenty of advice and support available for you here and on the University website. All schools, sixth form and further education colleges have a point of contact within University of Oxford who will be happy to provide information and advice on admissions and outreach. You are also welcome to contact us via the contact form.

Impact

We do not expect to make radical changes overnight, but hope to build lasting partnerships across the region which will benefit the whole school community as well as our University.

We will evaluate the impact of our outreach across the North-East and publish an annual impact report here.

Find out more about outreach at the University of Oxford.