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Applications for this year's Being Human Programme are now closed

 

Application, Selection Process and Privacy

Any UK-based Year 12 at a state school in the North West, Yorkshire and the Humber with a genuine interest in studying a humanities subject at university is welcome to apply to these events. However, please note that our events are often oversubscribed. In the event of oversubscription, Corpus Christi College, Worcester College and the Classics Faculty have established criteria with which to select applicants for outreach events, in line with our commitment to supporting students from backgrounds underrepresented at Oxford and in Higher Education.

In this way, the application process is very different to the Oxford admissions process, so gaining a place or not gaining a place on one of the above events does not bear a relation to the student’s chances of success in the Oxford admissions process.

Most or all students offered a place on the event will meet all three primary considerations. Priority will be given to students who, in addition, meet one or more of the secondary considerations. A small number of students may be offered places who do not meet all of the primary considerations. Of these, priority would be given to those who meet one or more of the secondary considerations. In the event of equally competitive applicants, ‘additional considerations’ may be used to determine which applicant is offered a place. 
 


Primary Considerations

· Student is interested in studying ancient or modern humanities at university

· Student attends a non-selective state school

· Student meets the minimum GCSE requirement of Grade 6 or above in English GCSE(s).

· Student is able to travel to either the Manchester Seminar Series or the Huddersfield Seminar Series and attend the residential in Oxford in March

 

Secondary Considerations

· Student has no parental history of higher education

· Student is eligible for free school meals and/or a Pupil Premium student

· Student is from an ethnic minority

· Student is or has been a Looked After Child (lived or living in Local Authority Care)

· Student has a disability

· Student is a Young Carer

· Student holds Refugee Status in the UK
 


Additional Considerations

· We may also use postcode and school data to inform us of whether or not an applicant is from an area or school where progression to higher education is low, or from an area of socio-economic disadvantage. Such data would be treated in the same manner as in the Oxford admissions process; for an explanation, see ‘Prior Education’ and ‘Residential Postcode’ on our web page: Contextual Data.

· We may use other considerations where to do so would be appropriate, including significant underrepresentation of a particular gender in the event’s subject area.

 

Privacy

For information on how the Colleges and university handle your data, please see our Corpus Christi College Privacy Policy, the Worcester College Privacy Policy, Classics Faculty Privacy Policy, and HEAT Database Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about the above, please contact a member of the Being Human core staff team:

Qasim Alli, Faculty of Classics: outreach@classics.ox.ac.uk

Suzie Giles, Corpus Christi College: admissions.office@ccc.ox.ac.uk

Chella Ward, Worcester College: admissions@worc.ox.ac.uk