A HEREFORD college is celebrating after being recognised for having a high percentage of students getting into Oxbridge.
Hereford Sixth Form College leads the national highest percentage of students getting into Oxbridge with entries from non-selective state schools and colleges.
OTHER NEWS:
- Herefordshire town centre road to shut due to dangerous rockface
- Grant to get Herefordshire businesses using e-bikes
The college was placed 19th in the country at getting students into Oxford and Cambridge, in a list compiled by The Spectator magazine.
The college is proud that 41 per cent of applicants received offers in comparison of a national average of 20 per cent.
Some 80 per cent of the sixth form's medics were placed this year, against a national picture of around 10 per cent gaining places.
The college has a 'bespoke' Reach programme which takes takes around 300 of the 'gifted and talented' students at Hereford Sixth Form College and gives them weekly lessons, focussing upon options post sixth form.
Vicky Orsmond, senior progression lead at Hereford Sixth Form College said: "I feel very passionately that our students from beautiful, rural Herefordshire should see themselves as equal to the best schools in the country; why would they not? Our students are outstandingly bright, driven and academic."
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules here