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The Brilliant Club

The Brilliant Club is a fair access education charity based in the UK.

The Brilliant Club exists to increase the number of pupils from underrepresented backgrounds progressing to highly-selective universities. It does this by mobilising the PhD community to share its academic experience with state schools.

Overview

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2011

Established

12K

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Updated
April 2019
In the UK today, there is an entrenched link between pupils’ background and their access to higher education. The UCAS Multiple Equality Measure shows that 1 in 4 of the most advantaged quintile of English 18 year olds enter highly-selective universities compared to only 1 in 50 pupils from the most disadvantaged quintile.

About the innovation

The Brilliant Club

Our Mission
The Brilliant Club exists to increase the number of pupils from under-represented backgrounds progressing to highly selective universities. We do this by mobilising the PhD community to share its academic expertise with state schools.

What We Do
In pursuit of our mission, The Brilliant Club runs two core programmes; The Scholars Programme and Researchers in Schools.

The Scholars Programme
The Scholars Programme recruits, trains and places doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in schools to deliver programmes of university-style tutorials, which are supplemented by two university trips.

Researchers in Schools
Researchers in Schools recruits PhD graduates, places them as trainee teachers in schools and supports them to develop as excellent teachers and research leaders committed to closing the gap in attainment and university access.

Implementation steps

Sign up your school for The Scholars Programme
To sign up your school or for more information, visit our website, here.
Become a Scholars Programme Tutor

For more information about working as a PhD tutor, please click here.

Train to teach with Researchers in Schools
For more information about Researchers in Schools, please click here.
RIS Participants in Schools
To find out how to get a participant in your school, please clickhere.

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