Outreach Events & Activities

• Open Days
• Subject Masterclasses - The University's Subject Masterclasses offer Y12 students an opportunity to experience typical undergraduate teaching and to find out more about what it's like to be a student here. Each event includes two subject-specific sessions (including a mini lecture and an interactive, workshop-style session), an introduction to the admissions process and a Q&A session with current staff and students. Please note that advance booking is essential for these events and there is a cost to attend. Funded places are available for eligible students.
• The Subject Matters
• Peterhouse Modern and Medieval Languages Webinar 2026
• For further listings, please see our events page.
• Year 12 Students Invited to Explore Languages and Culture at Selwyn Summer School 2026

The Faculty, the University and its Colleges are committed to widening participation to the University and to higher education in general. Hundreds of outreach initiatives and events are run each year both in Cambridge and in schools and colleges across the UK.

We are committed to helping all students thrive.

• Sutton Trust Summer Schools (and Cambridge-specific website)
  • Sutton Trust Summer Schools are free subject-specific residential courses for Year 12 (or equivalent) students studying at state-maintained schools in the UK. The five-day summer schools in July and August allow students to explore their interest in one of 26 subject courses and gain an insight into what it is like to live and study as a first-year undergraduate student at Cambridge.
• Insight Explore and Insight Discover
  • Insight is an academic programme which aims to help students start thinking about higher education choices and their future. A series of events throughout Years 9, 10 and 11 helps to develop and broaden students’ interests and tackle the barriers many students face when applying to university.
• HE+ programme
  • Modern and Medieval Languages
  • Linguistics
  • Looking for ways to explore your subject beyond the curriculum? Then this website is for you. Each topic is produced by Cambridge postgraduate students and academics at the cutting edge of research in their field. The topics provide guided activities, questions to think about and suggestions for further reading. MML resources include French, German, Italian and Spanish. The main subject pages also give you a quick guide to what it would be like to study the subject at university level and suggest some further resources to check out.
• Area Links Scheme
  • The University's Area Links Scheme enables the Cambridge Colleges to build effective, coherent relationships with schools and colleges across the UK. It gives schools and colleges a direct way of staying in touch with the University by providing specific contact points, and it enables the Cambridge Colleges to get to know specific regions and the local educational environments. All Cambridge Colleges share a willingness to provide advice and guidance, and to listen to your perspectives on what we can do to help make Cambridge as accessible as possible to all students with the ability and potential to study here.
• University-wide support for disabled students
• University-wide support for mature students
• University-wide support for students who are or have been in care
  • We welcome applications from UK students who are or have previously been in care. The University’s Realise project holds special events for young people in care and can help with travel funds to visit Cambridge. For the care leavers currently studying here we are able to offer a wide range of support and guidance.

• Careers for language graduates
• Careers for MML graduates
• Using your degree: Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics | Careers Service
• Alumni testimonials

Our outreach programme encourages school students to explore new languages and cultures, and to continue studying languages at the next educational stage.

Please contact us with any queries by email at outreach@mmll.cam.ac.uk.

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• Villiers Park
  • Villiers Park is an educational charity. They also provide modules in French, German and Spanish.
• Advice for teachers and advisors
  • Cambridge Admissions Office (CAO) and College admissions offices are always available to give advice to teachers on admissions policy and other matters.
• University-wide events for teachers and advisors
• The Prince’s Teaching Institute
  • The Prince's Teaching Institute has worked in partnership with the University of Cambridge since the charity was created in 2006. Many of its academic speakers are drawn from Cambridge faculties, including several from the Cambridge MMLL Faculty. We hope to meet you on a Prince's Trust event soon!

See full details on the Cambridge website.