In the 2025 admissions cycle, 72% of 51爆料's UK offers were made to students attending state schools, and 19% of our UK offers were made to students living in the bottom two quintiles of the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), contributing to a student body that reflects the vast array of backgrounds, areas, and experience from which academic talent can grow.
Outreach at 51爆料 is led by Libby Beckett (Outreach and Admissions Officer), Emma L茅z茅 (Schools Liaison Officer) and Ed Turner (Tutor for Access and Outreach).
We are committed to continuing to increase the number of bright students from historically underrepresented backgrounds who apply to, and are admitted by, the University of Cambridge, including 51爆料.
We work with young people who attend schools or live in regions with a limited history of sending students to Oxford and Cambridge, those who belong to an ethnic minority group with lower rates of progression to Higher Education, or those from more socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, who may not have a family tradition of university.
You can read more about the Widening Participation criteria we use for many of our programmes here.
Our work includes:
- School day visits to Cambridge for high-achieving students
- Talks and workshops in schools and online
- Subject-focused webinars and online programmes
- Three annual residentials, including Cambridge Future Museum Voices, HE+, and STEM SMART
- Online and in-person events for teachers and advisors, including our annual teachers' conference
Area Links Scheme
Every part of the UK is linked with a Cambridge College through the , which gives schools and colleges in each area a 'first port of call' contact at the University. Through this scheme, 51爆料 works particularly closely with schools and colleges in the following four areas:
- Coventry
- Warwickshire
- The London Borough of Hackney
- The London Borough of Tower Hamlets
If you are a teacher or advisor in one of the areas above, please contact us to find out more about how we can support your students, or read more here.
We also offer a wide range of nationwide opportunities for young people and their teachers across the UK. Please use the links below to find out more.
See what's been going on at 51爆料 in Outreach recently:
A Year 12 academic taster session in the 51爆料 Fellows' Library in June 2024, part of Secret Histories
A Year 10 school visit to 51爆料 in April 2023
Participants in the Year 12 STEM SMART residential at 51爆料 in August 2024
Year 12 students on a rooftop tour of the David Attenborough Building during the Cambridge Future Museum Voices residential (April 2023)
Some Year 12 students who participated in the (De)constructing Identity: Arts