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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.
The Cambridge Social Union (CSU), founded in 1871 and formally incorporated in 1876, taught classes for adults in the former Brattle house which it had moved into in 1889 after purchasing it. The courses included literacy classes and general classes taught by Harvard College and Radcliffe College students and faculty. [4] [5] [1]
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]
The university is a member of the Russell Group of research-led British universities, and the Sutton 13 group of top-ranked universities in the UK. [37] Sutton Trust universities are regarded as the UK's "most prestigious", [38] "elite" [39] and "most selective" universities [40] offering around 30,000 places annually. [41]
In the summer of 2020, ICE announced it was launching a £1 million bursary programme to help adults hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the programme, the institute offered 1,000 bursaries, each worth £1,000, to go towards tuition fees for more than 30 part-time courses. [ 53 ]
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]
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 ...
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