Age Group
12-18 year olds
Year Group
Key Stage 3 / 4
Duration
50 minutes
Group Size
5 - 300
Resource Pack?
Not Available
Follow Up Workshop
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Digital Version?
Yes
Overview of The University Challenge
This presentation is the real story of the 2engage directors and how their journey started at school and the impact higher education had on their lives. Widening participation in higher education is a high priority for the UK government and many higher education institutions are aiming to address patterns of underrepresentation. Students can include those from low-income backgrounds, first-generation students, young carers, young people in care, students with a disability or from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds. ‘The University Challenge’ has been created to inform young people from a wide range of backgrounds about their higher education choices.
- Highlight the importance of continuing in education and lifelong learning
- Inform students of the support networks available
- Demonstrate that there is more to university than just academic studies
- Illustrate the progression routes of education, from GCSE to university
- Dispel myths and preconceptions about higher education
- Taking responsibility for physical health and personal hygiene
- Importance of balancing work, leisure, exercise and sleep
- Maintaining a healthy diet on a budget
- Managing being new, fitting in and making friends
- Managing pressure
- Accessing support
- Further develop study and employability skills
- Range of opportunities available for career progression (education, training and employment)
- Managing financial decisions
- Budgeting
- Understanding debt (student)
- Matching career to personal interests, attributes and skills
- Further and higher education, training and apprenticeships
Key Themes
BENEFITS OF HE
HE ACCESSIBILITY
PROGRESSION ROUTES
WIDENING PARTICIPATION
HOPES
FEARS
FUTURE PLANNING
HELPING PARENTS
UNIVERSITY LIFE
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
STUDENT FINANCE
STUDENT DEBT
ASPIRATION RAISING
GOAL SETTING
OUTREACH
The University Challenge delivers a clear and thoroughly engaging message about young people’s future choices
2engage's University Challenge performance delivers a clear and thoroughly engaging message about young people’s future choices, options and expectations when they come to leave school through the medium of drama/comedy. By breaking down these areas into humorous, digestible sketches it turns what could be a very boring advice and guidance session into a fun, aspiration raising performance. It’s a fantastic show that is applicable to various year groups and can be delivered anywhere from a small class room to a large school hall or performance space. All of the students/ teachers that have watched it have found it completely engaging with the Q+A session at the end proving to be a great success!
Fun and memorable
The University Challenge performance not only gives a clear and informative messages but a realistic view of the Higher Education journey students are about to embark on. This is all fixed together in a fun and memorable story line with some truly unforgettable characters.
I highly recommend 2engage for your learners.
I watched the University Challenge as part of National Careers Week. The two guys brought so much energy and humour to the presentation and managed to tap into my learner's minds in ways that up to then, hadn't been able to. I would highly recommend 2engage for your learners. Well done to all involved!
Watching this production made our learners think, question and re-evaluate their future choices!
Both our Year 10's and Year 12's found the production informative, entertaining and amusing. It reassured our Year 12's to take that next step and apply for university and reassured our Year 10's that university life and work is very different to school. It inspired our students to re-consider university life as a prospective future for them. Watching this production made them think, question and re-evaluate their future choices. Brilliant!