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The Sutton Trust ran its first summer school in 1997 at Oxford University, and they continue to be highly popular. It is the largest programme of its kind, with 10,000 applicants for 2,000 places in 2014. [13] The week long summer schools are designed to give bright students from non-privileged homes an insight into life at a leading university.
He was suspended several times, and had already been issued a final warning when the opportunity arose to visit a summer school organised by the Sutton Trust at Cambridge University. [6] This was when he realised that he would have to take responsibility for himself and that he had the potential to succeed. [7] [8]
In 1983, Lampl set up the Sutton Company, a private equity firm with offices in New York City, London and Munich, and by the mid-1990s had become extremely wealthy. [6] Before setting up the Sutton Trust, he funded a campaign to ban handguns [7] in the wake of the Dunblane massacre which resulted in a complete ban on handguns in the UK. [8]
Sutton Trust maintains that the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge recruit disproportionately from eight schools, which account for 1,310 Oxbridge places over three years contrasted with 1,220 from 2,900 other schools. [121]
St Alban's RC Primary School, Cambridge; St Andrew's CE Primary School, Soham; St Anne's CE Primary School, Godmanchester; St Helen's Primary School, Bluntisham; St Johns CE Primary School, Huntingdon; St Laurence RC Primary School, Cambridge; St Luke's CE Primary School, Cambridge; St Mary's CE Primary School, St Neots; St Matthew's Primary ...
The Iwerne Trust continued to exist until 2016, with some of the same trustees as Titus Trust and channelling its income to the Titus Trust. [ 27 ] In the early 2000s, the camps moved from Clayesmore School in Iwerne Minster to Gresham's School , Holt , Norfolk , but retained the Iwerne name.
The school was among the top five grammar schools in the UK based on GCSE performance in 2018, [9] and in 2019. [10] In July 2011, Kendrick School was identified by the Sutton Trust as the fifth highest state school for proportion of higher education applicants accepted at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
The aims of the summer school's programs were to provide additional breadth (introducing participants to subjects they might not be able to engage with in the National Curriculum, for example), adding depth to a student's studies (by introducing them to additional material in a National Curriculum subject that might not ordinarily be covered in ...