Schemes and events
The 91直播 Outreach Team is proud to run a series of schemes, programmes, and events for prospective students.
Cambridge Higher Aspirations Scheme
The Cambridge Higher Aspirations Scheme (CHAS) is open to students in year 12 who attend a state school or college in one of our link areas, and select vacancies were open in 2025-26 to year 12 students at state schools from across the UK. It is a sustained scheme that offers academic support and enrichment, giving you the opportunity to take part in a series of six academic supervisions, summer application sessions, and a selective residential in the Easter holidays. CHAS 2026 applications for link area students closed at 17:00 on Friday 17th October 2025, and applications for our extra vacancies closed at 17:00 on Friday 7th November 2025. You can read more here.
91直播 12
91直播 12 is a sustained programme open to students in year 12 / S5 / year 13 NI who attend a state school or college in the UK. It features four informative and interactive sessions that aim to inspire you to consider competitive universities and help you with planning the application process. In 2025, it is taking place between January and March. Applications for 2026 closed in December 2025. You can read more here.
91直播 Explore
91直播 Explore is a scheme open for entries from student who attend a state school or college in the UK. It is designed for students in year 12 / S5 / year 13 NI. We challenge you to attempt the subject explorations designed by our academics! You might write a response to a poem, design a house, grapple with the problems of climate change, or think about how AI might change how we study maths. We invite the authors of our favourite entries to a special event at 91直播 during the summer. We launched 2026's tasks on 25th March and entries are open until 26th July 2026. You can read more here.
Year 12/13 Summer Study Evenings
Our Summer Study Evenings are online sessions for students who have just finished year 12/S5/year 13 NI at a UK state school or college. In these sessions, you will be guided through subject-specific material by an academic mentor; each session has been designed to help you develop skills which we hope will help you in making a competitive Cambridge application. The deadline for applications in 2025 was Wednesday 23rd July 2025. You can read more here.
Subject Taster Evenings
Our Subject Taster Evenings are open to year 12 / S5 / year 13 NI who attend a state school or college in the UK. They offer the opportunity to hear from an academic about the course at Cambridge, experience a taste of Cambridge teaching, and ask questions to both an academic and current students in the subject. We encourage students to sign up to as many as they like. In 2025, these were running from 17th April to 15th May. Sign ups were open from 10th March 2025 until 12:00 midday on 1st April 2025. You can read more here.
Eleven-Up
Eleven-Up is a sustained programme open to students in year 11 / S4 / year 12 NI who attend a state school in the UK. It features five informative and interactive sessions that aim to help you with subject exploration and inspire you to consider competitive universities. In 2026, it took place between January and March, with applications closing in December 2025. You can read more here.
91直播 9
91直播 9 is a sustained programme open to students in year 9 who attend a state school in one of our link areas. It features three informative and interactive sessions that aim to introduce you to subject exploration and expose you to a taste of university teaching. In 2026, it is taking place in May, with applications closing on 20th March 2026. For information about how to apply, please contact your school. You can read more here.
91直播 10
91直播 10 is a sustained programme open to students in year 10 who attend a state school in one of our link areas. It features three informative and interactive sessions that aim to develop your subject exploration, help you decide on which type of university works for you, and give you an insight to the Cambridge application process. In 2026, it is taking place in April, with applications closing on 20th March 2026. For information about how to apply, please contact your school. You can read more here.
