Four Keble Offers | Astrophoria Foundation Year
Keble is one of ten colleges making offers to students in the University’s inaugural Astrophoria Foundation Year programme. Four of the 35 offers made are at Keble, in PPE, Law, English, and History. In total, there were 553 UK applications for places across the colleges.
The Astrophoria Foundation Year is a one-year fully-funded foundation programme for UK state school students with significant academic potential, who have experienced severe personal disadvantage and/or disrupted education which has resulted in them being unable to apply directly for an Oxford undergraduate degree programme.
The entry requirements for the courses are lower than those for an undergraduate course at Oxford – for example, where a subject requires AAA for a prospective undergraduate, Foundation Year students would need to achieve BBB. Students who pass their Foundation Year course at the required level will have the opportunity to progress onto the first year of their chosen undergraduate degree without the need to reapply.
Participants will study in one of four programme streams (Classics, History, English and Theology; Chemistry, Engineering and Materials Science; Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE); and Law).
During the Foundation Year, they will be taught centrally by teams of tutors appointed to the four courses. In their ‘Year 0’, the Foundation Year students will live in Keble, be members of the JCR, and join in with all the activities and opportunities open to other undergraduates. They will receive free tuition and accommodation, as well as a bursary to help with living costs.
Keble Senior Tutor, Ali Rogers, said: “Taking part in the Astrophoria Foundation Year enables us to add another dimension to our efforts to open up the University’s opportunities to individuals with the potential to succeed but who have encountered challenging circumstances.”
Other participating colleges include: Exeter, Jesus, Lady Margaret Hall, Mansfield, Somerville, St Anne’s, St Hugh’s, Trinity, and Wadham.
