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The eOutreach Project was launched by Bedford School in collaboration with Sheffield University and the Sutton Trust in December 2004. Its continuing objective is to provide university lectures to secondary school students from schools around the country via an accessible and effective student/university interface.
Initially, eOutreach used Bedford School as a resource hub for local schools whereby students attended videoconferencing lectures at Bedford School. With extended funding, the project has endeavoured to broaden its geographical scope by using web-based open-access learning which a small team of Bedford School students are helping to develop.
The project encourages all able students in the local area to seriously consider higher education and illustrates the difference between school lessons and university lectures. The lectures demonstrate the diversity of study available whilst informing students on course choice and location. As the lectures are given via videoconferencing, traditional logistical and cost barriers are removed.
Recent lectures include ‘La France et l’Europe’ delivered in French and aimed at Year 12 and 13 students thinking of reading French at university and ‘Are we Alone? Searching for Planets and Life’ aimed at students thinking of reading Sciences at university.
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