Programs

Online and in-person subject taster events for UK Year 12 students offering an insight into social science degrees at LSE. The 2027 edition is expected to be announced in spring 2027.

• Year 12 / S5
• No fee

Week-long engineering work experience placements for Year 10 to 12 students at Leonardo UK sites including Basildon, Luton, Southampton, Edinburgh and Yeovil, earning an Industrial Cadets Silver award. The 2027 application window has not yet been announced.

• Year 10–12 / S3–S5
• Cost not published

Access to Bristol gives local state-school and college students in their first or second year of A-level study (or equivalent) subject streams at Bristol, including Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Sciences, with a guaranteed contextual offer or interview on completion.

• Year 12–13
• Cost not published

An essay prize from Trinity College Cambridge for students in Year 12 or the Lower Sixth. Topics are released in February and essays are submitted in July. Trinity says information for 2027 will be posted on its essay prizes page in February 2027.

• Year 12 / S5
• No fee

A two-day hands-on lab work experience at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton for A level and T level students with little or no lab experience, with eight places across four scientific areas. The 2027 round had not been announced when checked.

• Year 12–13
• Cost not published

A £3,000 first-year bursary, funded by the WJEC and administered by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, for students who study mathematics at university partly through the medium of Welsh.

• Year 13 / Year 14 (NI)
• Cost not published

A free two-day summer residential at Murray Edwards College for 16-year-old women and non-binary students interested in studying languages at Cambridge, with taster lectures and subject workshops. The 2027 call has not yet been published.

• Year 12 / S5
• No fee

A virtual team competition for 13-14 year olds across the UK to solve language-based challenges, run by GCHQ. No previous language skills are needed.

• Grades not published
• No fee

ICE QUEST scholarships give up to £8,000 plus paid summer placements to students starting an accredited civil engineering degree at a UK university in autumn 2027. Applications reopen in March 2027.

• Year 13 / S6
• Cost not published

Test your A-level biology and reasoning in two 45-minute online papers sat at your UK school.

• Year 12–13 / S5–S6
• No fee

The Northern Ireland Assembly recruits 90 young people in school years 9 to 12 to serve a two-year term as Youth Assembly Members, meeting at Parliament Buildings, Stormont.

• Year 11–12 (NI)
• No fee

A free online work experience programme from the Met Office, run with Springpod, open to UK-based students aged 13 to 18 with a guaranteed place for everyone who registers.

• Year 10–13 / S3–S6
• Cost not published