Join The Dots - University Transition Support
Organiser: The Brilliant Club
When
Project availability
from 4 March 2025 to 29 April 2027
What
Completely free for schools, colleges and students, Join the Dots works with universities to provide bespoke support for students during the transition to university.
What is Join the Dots?
Join the Dots is a university transition programme designed to support students facing the greatest challenges in making a successful transition to university. It is targeted at students who are most likely to face barriers in making a successful transition to university, and who are at risk of missing out on the life changing opportunities that come from successfully earning a degree from a competitive university.
Schools and colleges can offer Join the Dots to any Year 12 or 13 students, focusing on those who meet targeting criteria. Students take part in a series of live webinars, called UniPrep, which helps them build confidence in their understanding of university life.
On results day, students that will be attending one of the programme’s partner universities are matched with a PhD Coach from their university. Each PhD Coach supports up to eight students throughout their first six-months at the university. Through 1-1 and group coaching, students develop key university study strategies, academic self-efficacy and sense of belonging at university.
Commitment From Schools and Colleges
Completely free for schools and colleges, Join the Dots supports your students to be successful during the critical transition to university.
Schools and colleges will be asked to share information on the programme with their Year 12 and 13. Schools and colleges will be asked to facilitate UniPrep sessions by sharing resources with students and by facilitating their attendance at the live sessions.
The programme has helped me understand what it means to be an independent learner and my coach has given great assistance and feedback on my coursework.
Student, Join the Dots
What are The Brilliant Club’s targeting criteria?
For Join the Dots, we are particularly keen to support students who:
- Have previously been eligible for pupil premium funding
- Have no parental history of higher education
- Live in a postcode that is in the lowest 4 deciles of the IDACI postcode data
- Are care experienced
- Are young carers
- Have refugee and asylum status
- Are from Gypsy, Roma or Traveller communities
- Have a disability or special educational needs
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