If you are in Years 7-13, you are invited to enter a very short story to be in with a chance of winning up to £100.
Oxford are looking for a complete story, written in Spanish using NO MORE THAN 100 WORDS.
They are looking for imagination and creativity, as well as your ability to write in Spanish. Your use of Spanish will be considered in the context of your age and year group: in other words, we will not expect younger pupils to compete against older pupils linguistically.
There are two categories: Years 7-11 and Years 12-13. A first prize of £100 will be awarded to the winning entry in each category, with runner-up prizes of £25. The winning entries will be published on our website.
The UKMT Individual Maths Challenges are lively, intriguing multiple choice question papers, which are designed to stimulate interest in maths in large numbers of pupils.
Junior UKMT is the first of the 3 levels and is aimed at 11-13 y/o
The papers contain 25 multiple choice questions. Of these, the first 15 are more accessible whilst the final 10 will provide more food for thought.
Gold, silver and bronze certificates are awarded to 40% of participants nationally in the Junior Challenges,
The most successful participants are invited to enter follow-on rounds; Kangaroos (multiple choice questions) or Olympiads requiring full written answers.
This essay competition will be appropriate if you are studying any kind of humanities subject, but particularly history. It could also be something that you talk about in your personal statement.
Essays will be judged by current Oxford Classics students.
First prize will be a £100 book voucher, second prize £50 voucher and third £25.
The UKMT Individual Maths Challenges are lively, intriguing multiple choice question papers, which are designed to stimulate interest in maths in large numbers of pupils.
intermediate UKMT is the second of the 3 levels and is aimed at 14/15 year olds.
The papers contain 25 multiple choice questions. Of these, the first 15 are more accessible whilst the final 10 will provide more food for thought.
Gold, silver and bronze certificates are awarded to 40% of participants nationally in the Intermediate Challenges,
The most successful participants are invited to enter follow-on rounds; Kangaroos (multiple choice questions) or Olympiads requiring full written answers.
Schools are invited to hold an essay competition for their Modern Languages A-level students and to submit one essay for consideration for the Essay Prize. The topic for differs every year and can be interpreted by the student as they will.
Essays should be written in French, German or Spanish, should be no longer than 500 words, and should include a bibliography (not included in the word count).
A prize of a £100 book voucher will be awarded to the best essay, judged by a panel of academics from the Department of Languages and Cultures. There are also two runners up prizes of £25 book vouchers.
The Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) is an active citizenship programme that raises awareness amongst young people about philanthropy and their local community. Each participating school, each year is responsible for directing a £3000 YPI grant to a local charity through a unique programme of teamwork, research and competition. YPI is all about creativity and passion, leaving the four walls of the classroom behind, and supporting the issues young people care most about.
With the YPIS, students have an opportunity to research the needs of their local community and find an issue which they passionately believe in. Identify your individual strengths, skills and weakness and support one another to be a rounded and collective team.
ComputerAid offer a variety of voluntary opportunities in a variety of different skills in marketing, ICT4D, Finance or Fundraising. ComputerAid will also publish any articles or projects you have related to sustainable IT on their blog!
CA believe that technology has become a necessity for education because it creates a better learning environment. Computers allow easy communication and access to educational resources. Today Computer Aid is one of the leading ICT4D organizations in the world. CA give ICT equipment a second life through our partners and projects around the world.
Young Scot is the National Youth Information Agency, providing young people aged 12-26 with a mixture of information, ideas and incentives to help them become active, informed and confident citizens.
No formal qualification required! • Interest in the issues surrounding young people, Scotland and your digital world • Able to work within a group • Have the flexibility, commitment and willingness to travel across Scotland
There are a range of community volunteer opportunities that you can get involved with, from helping to put up camera traps and feeders to enthusing the public and schoolchildren about red squirrels and teaching them how they can help too.
You can find out more by contacting one of our conservation partners in the link.
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust invite people from all walks of life to carry out bumblebee surveys.
Anyone can become a BeeWalker – all you need is a spare hour or so every month to walk a fixed route of about a mile (you choose where it goes), and send us your sightings. The information collected by BeeWalk volunteers is integral to monitoring how bumblebee populations change through time, and will allow us to detect early warning signs of population declines.
All data collected will contribute to important long-term monitoring of bumblebee population changes in response to changes in land-use and climate change, and, ultimately, to informing how we manage the countryside.
Coursera is an online learning platform founded by Stanford professors that offers courses, specialisations, and degrees. It provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organisations to offer courses online.
These are especially great for students to show their interest and commitment to a subject, display that they have been exposed to further study in the subject and reduces access barriers for students who are not able to access opportunities. It shows they have not allowed any physical or other limits stop them from seeking out self study.
You can volunteer for RSPB in hundreds of ways. Click apply below to see the range of opportunities in your local area to get engaged with your local campaigns and projects for the protection of birds.
1st May 2019 when this year's short story and poetry competitions will open for entries and will usually close for submissions by September. The winner of first prize will receive £500, second prize £150 and third prize £100. The Bedford Prize, kindly sponsored by The Harpur Trust, enables us to award £100 each to the highest placed story and poem by Bedford residents.
The competition is open to anyone aged 17 years and over.
Stories must be no more than 3000 words.
Habitat for Humanity is an international charity housing and shelter charity who offer a variety of programmes and opportunities for young people to get involved with housing humanitarianism.
They run a variety of youth programs which focus on volunteering and fundraising both locally within the and internationally for UK students to join.
Amnesty Youth group are self organised young persons groups affiliated with Amnesty International. These groups are focused on encouraging and engaging high school students in activism, global affairs, world politics and an understanding of human rights. Amnesty's Education and Student team willsupport and develop the youth group network. Every group receives a monthly action pack of everything they need to campaign in their school.
Amnesty will send a monthly pack to the group which contains: A full briefing on Amnesty's campaign for that month including info, actions and resources, A Youth Urgent Action - a case sheet for an individual or group in immediate danger and an action to protect them, Extra resources to download or order such as stickers, postcards, DVDs, stickers, etc, Invitations to events such as the Annual General Meeting.
The UKMT Individual Maths Challenges are lively, intriguing multiple choice question papers, which are designed to stimulate interest in maths in large numbers of pupils.
The Senior individual challenge is the highest of the three levels and aimed at students in the final years of high school.
The papers contain 25 multiple choice questions. Of these, the first 15 are more accessible whilst the final 10 will provide more food for thought. Gold, silver and bronze certificates are awarded to 60% of participants nationally in the Senior Challenge.
The most successful participants at each level are invited to enter follow-on rounds; Kangaroos (multiple choice questions) or Olympiads requiring full written answers.
Students on this placement will have the unique opportunity to gain experience in a state-of-the-art UK hospital.
Students are coached on how to deal with emergency situations and will build up to running several simulation emergency situations themselves. It's an exciting and challenging environment supported by the Medical Projects team.
Courses are examined to LSE standards and can often be taken for credit towards degrees at other institutions. Summer School courses are drawn from across the university, and are divided into the following subject areas:
Accounting
Business and Management
Economics
English Language
Finance
International Relations, Government and Society
Law
Research Methods, Data Science, and Mathematics
Model United Nations is an academic or recreational activity in which participants assume the role of national ambassadors or representatives to debate and seek to solve global issues, Any UN body or agency can be simulated (the Security Council and General Assembly are the most popular).
Some MUNs, last days and faithfully follow UN protocol, while others can take place during an hour’s lesson in a secondary school. It’s up to you how formal or informal you want yours to be. Thousands of middle school, high school, and college students across the country and around the world participate in Model United Nations, which involves substantial researching, public speaking, debating, and writing skills, as well as critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership abilities.
The Marshall Society, the Economics society of the University of Cambridge, holds an annual essay competition. This is an opportunity for all students currently working towards A-levels, the IB or equivalent qualifications to demonstrate their ability to write a convincing and well-structured essay. Emphasis should be placed on sound explanation of economic theory and well-reasoned arguments, drawing on relevant real-world evidence.
Entrants are advised to make their essays as concise as the topic allows: the guideline is 1500 words.
The essays will be judged individually and the shortlist, runners up, and winner will be announced in September. The author of the winning essay will also receive £50; the two runners up will receive £25 each.