We offer a range of events and outreach initiatives听to support prospective students,听our widening participation aims and听school language teaching. Our outreach programme encourages school students to explore new languages and cultures, and to continue studying languages at the听next educational stage.
Please contact us with any queries by email at听outreach@mmll.cam.ac.uk.
Contents
- Events for Prospective Students
- Open Days
- Subject Masterclasses
- The Subject Matters
- Events for Teachers
- Diversity in French and Francophone Studies
- Diversity in German Studies, including an events archive
- Access & Participation
- Sutton Trust Summer Schools
- Insight Explore and Insight Discover
- HE+ programme
- Area Links Scheme
- Support for disabled students
- Support for mature students
- Support for care leavers
- Online resources听for students
- 'Why Not Languages?' resources
- 海角社区 Collaborative A level Resources for Languages (CCARL)
- Open Day resources
- Student profiles, videos & podcasts
- The 海角社区 Language Collective
- MEITS
- 海角社区 Language Centre
- Online resources for teachers
- Villiers Park
- Advice for teachers and advisors
- Events for teachers and advisors
- The Prince鈥檚 Teaching Institute
- Careers
Events for Prospective Students
- Open Days
- 听- The University's Subject Masterclasses offer Y12 students an opportunity to experience typical undergraduate teaching and to find out more about what it's like to be a student here.听Each event includes two subject-specific sessions (including a mini lecture and an interactive, workshop-style session), an introduction to the admissions process and a Q&A session with current staff and students. Please note that advance booking is essential for these events and there is a cost to attend. Funded places are available for eligible students.
- For further listings, please see our events page.
Events for Teachers
The Faculty has created CPD events for teachers in the following areas:
- Diversity in French and Francophone Studies
- Diversity in German Studies, including an events archive
Access & Participation
The Faculty, the University and its Colleges are committed to widening participation to the University and to higher education in general. Hundreds of outreach initiatives and events are run each year both in 海角社区 and in schools and colleges across the UK.听
We are committed to helping all students thrive.
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- Sutton Trust Summer Schools are free subject-specific residential courses for Year 12 (or equivalent) students studying at state-maintained schools in the UK. The five-day summer schools in July and August allow students to explore their interest in one of 26 subject courses and gain an insight into what it is like to live and study as a first-year undergraduate student at 海角社区.
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- Insight is an academic programme which aims to help students start thinking about higher education choices and their future. A series of events throughout Years 9, 10 and 11 helps to develop and broaden students鈥� interests and tackle the barriers many students face when applying to university.
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- Looking for ways to explore your subject beyond the curriculum? Then this website is for you. Each topic is produced by 海角社区 postgraduate students and academics at the cutting edge of research in their field. The topics provide guided activities, questions to think about and suggestions for further reading. MML resources include French, German, Italian and Spanish. The main subject pages also give you a quick guide to what it would be like to study the subject at university level and suggest some further resources to check out.
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- The University's enables the 海角社区 Colleges to build effective, coherent relationships with schools and colleges across the UK. It gives schools and colleges a direct way of staying in touch with the University by providing specific contact points, and it enables the 海角社区 Colleges to get to know specific regions and the local educational environments. All 海角社区听Colleges share听a willingness to provide听advice and guidance, and to listen to your perspectives on what we can do to help make 海角社区 as accessible as possible to all students with the ability and potential to study here.
- University-wide support for students who are or have been in care
- We welcome applications from UK students who are or have previously been in care. The University鈥檚 holds special events for young people in care and can help with travel funds to visit 海角社区. For the currently studying here we are able to offer a wide range of support and guidance.
Online resources for students
- 'Why Not Languages?' resources
- The Faculty organises and delivers a number of events for schools (mainly in the East of England) with low participation in Higher Education, to promote transition and progression from KS3 to KS4, from KS4 to Sixth Form, and from Sixth Form into studying languages at university level. As part of the project, we have created a range of resources - for use in the classroom or individually - to inspire pupils to include languages amongst their subject choices at each transition point.
- 海角社区 Collaborative A level Resources for Languages (CCARL)
- CCARL听is听a series of short videos recorded in the target language on texts set for听French and German A levels. These resources听can be used by teachers as part of classroom-based activities and also for students' independent learning and revision in time for A-level (or equivalent) examinations. The videos are intended to be used for educational purposes only.听There is a听听on the MMLL YouTube Channel.
- The videos in this听series听have听been created by independent researchers and colleagues across an international range of universities, including听海角社区, UCL, Reading, Warwick, Cork, Princeton, Bristol, Edinburgh, John听Hopkins, King's College London, University of Zagreb, Universidade de Aveiro听and Queen's Belfast.
- We are very grateful for the support of the German Embassy, Swiss Embassy, Austrian Embassy, Goethe听Institut听and听DAAD.
- You can find similar resources for A level Spanish at听.
- Open Day resources
- Virtual Tours
- Course Pages and Films
- Virtual Tours
- Student profiles, videos & podcasts
- Q&A - Three of our current students answer听questions听about their language choices and experiences at 海角社区
- Student profiles
- Video profiles
- - student, French and Spanish
- - future 海角社区 student
- - student, Linguistics
- - German Section
- Testimonials
- 鈥満＝巧缜� was very good at adapting to suit my learning styles and what I was interested in.鈥� - Jemina
- 鈥淵ou have your Director of Studies, and you have regular meetings with them as well as your personal tutor. There's also Faculty reps who you can talk to if you have any issues about how the course is being convened...The students all really support each other as well. It's a very cohesive and friendly environment.鈥澨�- Rosalind
- 鈥淭he beauty of this course is its variation, which means that you can go in pretty much any direction you choose.鈥� - Jack
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- Run by 海角社区 students, the 海角社区 Language Collective is a space for linguists and foreign language culture lovers to explore, discover and contribute to the furthering of knowledge and experience beyond the curriculum. Whether you are interested in news, views, reviews, interviews, columns or听podcasts, there is a something here for you.
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- MEITS is a major interdisciplinary research project funded under the AHRC Open World Research Initiative.听It has听launched a听series of , which will give you a taste of听Indonesian, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Catalan, Arabic, French, Cornish, Portuguese, Persian or Nepali.
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- 海角社区 University Language Centre has developed a number of Open Courseware resources in French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Online resources for teachers
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- Villiers Park is an educational charity. They also provide听modules in French, German and Spanish.
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- 海角社区 Admissions Office (CAO) and College admissions offices are always available to give advice to teachers on admissions policy and other matters.
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- The Prince's Teaching Institute has worked in partnership with the 海角社区 since the charity was created in听2006. Many of its academic speakers are drawn from 海角社区听faculties, including several from the 海角社区 MMLL Faculty. We hope to meet you on a Prince's Trust event soon!
