Programme overview

Honours students will be eligible to take part in our super curricular programmes and receive an additional hour each week along their main course programme to work with talented Oxbridge specialists.

You will:

• receive support in researching competitive universities and degree courses, including applying for degree apprenticeship programmes and to universities outside of the UK

• receive guidance from top universities on making a successful application to a research intensive university

• get specialist help and advice in writing your personal statement and preparing for admissions tests 

• take part in at least two mock interviews with detailed feedback 

• have the opportunity to join Oxbridge and Medicine discussion groups

• take part in specialist workshops at research intensive universities

• support with finding work experience relevant to your career aims

• take part in academic discussion and our weekly study circles and reading groups

• develop higher level academic skills, including critical and creative thinking and essay/report writing, and support with strategies to enable you to achieve an A or A*

African Studies Centre

The new African Studies Centre will teach students about the history of Africa, doing away with a tradition of learning about this diverse continent through the lens of European colonialism.

Classics with King’s College London

Take part in a series of bespoke sessions with world class Classics professors from King’s College London. This is a unique course only available to NewVIc students. You will explore from earliest Greece to Rome and beyond, right up to the influence of Classics on modern history and current affairs. This course will inspire and engage you in challenging topics often only taught in private schools.

Wadham Programme with Oxford University

A one year intensive study programme with Wadham College, Oxford University in conjunction with Toynbee Hall. You will take part in interdisciplinary seminars with Oxford professors at NewVIc, attend a variety of cultural excursions and have the oppotunity to attend an Easter Study Skills residential at Wadham College in Oxford.

African Archaeology and Anthropology with Cambridge University

Working with Cambridge University, this project will focus on a key question ‘What role should museums play in decolonisation?’. Students will explore ideas around how museums can use their space to create discussion around contemporary issues and the role anthropologists and archaeologists play.

EPQ with Greenwich University

Gain invaluable research and project management skills and receive an additional qualification equivalent to an half an A Level. Working with the University of Greenwich, you will create a piece of work on a subject of your choice. This could be either related to your A Levels or anything you are interested in. You will be required to demonstrate your ability to plan, prepare, research and work independently.

History, Memory & Identity with King’s College

This programme explores questions such as; how important is history in helping us construct our identity? and who should be involved in the writing of controversial histories? Through a study of key periods in the histories of different countries, you will examine these questions with leading lecturers from King’s College. There are also opportunities to visit museums and historical sites to see how history is represented in our own capital city.

The Tyler Afro-Caribbean Prize

Working with Pembroke College, Oxford, NewVIc presents a new initiative run by academics at Oxford University that enhances key academic skills, rewards exceptional writing and builds networks between high achieving black students of different ages. The workshops and essay competition is open to all Afro-Caribbean students who are capable of academic excellence and aims to hopes to equip participating pupils with the tools and confidence to reach top universities.

Liberal Arts Lecture Programme

Monthly Liberal Arts lectures on a range of subject areas delivered by top universities. Highlights in previous years include:

• Professor Selina Todd from Professor of Modern History at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University on ‘The Rise and Fall of the Working Class’

• Augustus Casely-Hayford a British curator and cultural historian with Ghanaian roots on ‘The Lost Kingdoms of Africa’

• Miri Rubin, Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary’s on ‘Jews in the Medieval European Imagination’.