Welcome to Outreach at Clare College, Cambridge!
Join us in Cambridge for a Year 12 residential, learn more about our admissions process in one of our webinars, or expand your subject knowledge in virtual super-curricular workshops for young people.
Explore the opportunities we offer below.
Secret Histories
Secret Histories is an outreach programme for students in Year 12 (S5 Scotland/Y13 N.I.) considering university study in History, English, Modern Languages, Philosophy, and related fields.
This programme is free of charge and includes eight weeks of online super-curricular workshops followed by an in-person taster day discovering the secrets of the Fellows' Library here at Clare.
This programme has finished for 2023-24. Applications for the 2024-25 programme will open in due course. Register your interest here to be notified when sign-ups open.
Subject Discovery Workshops
Online super-curricular workshops for students in Year 12 (S5 Scotland/Y13 Northern Ireland)
We run several streams of subject workshops through the year. The programme has two streams in spring/summer 2024:
- Secret Histories, for arts and humanities (leads to the optional in person taster day described above)
- Medicine & Society, for biological and medical sciences
Read more about the 2023-24 workshops here.
This page will be updated with further information on the 2024-25 workshops by September 2024; please check back soon for more.
Residential: Cambridge Future Museum Voices
A week-long residential in Cambridge for students in Year 12 England & Wales, S5 Scotland, and Year 13 Northern Ireland.
Learn more about the 2023-24 programme here. Read about the 2022-23 residential and exhibition here.
This programme has finished for 2023-24. Applications for the 2024-25 programme will open in late 2024. Register your interest here to be notified when sign-ups open.
STEM SMART
STEM SMART is the University's flagship widening participation initiative for sixth-form students interested in studying Engineering, Computer Science, Physical Sciences (eg physics, chemistry, earth sciences, materials science) or Biological Sciences (eg plant sciences, pharmacology, physiology, evolution and behaviour, biochemistry) at university.
Clare is proud to be one of the colleges that has been involved with the programme since it launched in 2021. For the 2024-25 cohort, Clare will continue to provide undergraduate mentoring, postgraduate supervision, and a summer residential for the most actively engaged students.
Applications to the 2024-25 programme are now closed, but you can stay up to date with the programme on the University STEM SMART webpage here.
Open Days
Visit Clare, chat to current students, and meet Directors of Studies during the University Open Days on 4 and 5 July 2024.
Full details are available here.
