Schools and colleges activity

Our outreach video

Take a peak at our video that highlights some of the incredible opportunities and events that our outreach team organise for schools, children and the wider community.

The Outreach and Student Recruitment teams offer an exciting and dynamic range of free activities and events for primary school, secondary school, and sixth forms and college students.

These events can be hosted either on campus or in your school. All are designed to highlight the benefits of university in a fun and interesting way, whilst giving students a taste of university life.

Free information and advice is also available for teachers, careers advisors, students and their parents or guardians, to help students make an informed decision about progression to Higher Education.

We’re proud to have ‘the world in one place’ here at Essex, so we also have opportunities for EU and international schools and colleges, as well as those based here in the UK.

What we do for you

A full programme of events in 2017-18 (.pdf) to engage, motivate and inspire your students.
Deliver on campus events to give students a university experience, including subject-specific taster sessions.
Travel to schools worldwide to deliver talks on higher education.
Provide teachers with the tools to help students with university applications and offer syllabus-specific resources to enrich classroom teaching.
Support teachers with their continuing professional development.
Offer a Schools Membership Scheme to allow effective and efficient communication of news and events.

Schools activities

Our Outreach programme offers an exciting and dynamic range of activities for primary schools, secondary schools, sixth forms and colleges either on campus or in your school, allowing students to discover what it's like to come to university.

Insight Day

Back by popular demand our Insight Day allows sixth form and college students to get a flavour of university courses, talk to current students about the subject they’re interested in and help them to make important decisions about next steps.

Global Teacher's Hub

Whether you want to offer advice to students about university applications or are looking for ideas to make your A-level classes more like university seminars, we've got a range of resources for teachers at UK schools.

Schools and colleges activity