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
• For further listings, please see our events page.

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 (new page needed for these)

• 'Why Not Languages?' resources
  • The Faculty organises and delivers a number of events for schools (mainly in the East of England) with low participation in Higher Education, to promote transition and progression from KS3 to KS4, from KS4 to Sixth Form, and from Sixth Form into studying languages at university level. As part of the project, we have created a range of resources - for use in the classroom or individually - to inspire pupils to include languages amongst their subject choices at each transition point.
• Cambridge Collaborative A level Resources for Languages (CCARL)
  • CCARL is a series of short videos recorded in the target language on texts set for French and German A levels. These resources can be used by teachers as part of classroom-based activities and also for students' independent learning and revision in time for A-level (or equivalent) examinations. The videos are intended to be used for educational purposes only. There is a CCARL playlist on the MMLL YouTube Channel.
  • The videos in this series have been created by independent researchers and colleagues across an international range of universities, including Cambridge, UCL, Reading, Warwick, Cork, Princeton, Bristol, Edinburgh, John Hopkins, King's College London, University of Zagreb, Universidade de Aveiro and Queen's Belfast.
  • We are very grateful for the support of the German Embassy, Swiss Embassy, Austrian Embassy, Goethe Institut and DAAD.
• Student profiles, videos & podcasts
  • Q&A - Three of our current students answer questions about their language choices and experiences at Cambridge
  • Student profiles
    • Alfie - Recent graduate, MML (French & Portuguese), Trinity Hall
    • Romany - 2nd Year, Linguistics, Christ's College
  • Video profiles
    • Rosalind - student, French and Spanish
    • Maria - future Cambridge student
    • Nuria - student, Linguistics
  • Podcast student profiles - German Section
  • Testimonials
    • “Cambridge was very good at adapting to suit my learning styles and what I was interested in.” - Jemina
    • “You have your Director of Studies, and you have regular meetings with them as well as your personal tutor. There's also Faculty reps who you can talk to if you have any issues about how the course is being convened...The students all really support each other as well. It's a very cohesive and friendly environment.” - Rosalind
    • “The beauty of this course is its variation, which means that you can go in pretty much any direction you choose.” - Jack
  • MML: The Year Abroad Experience
• The Cambridge Language Collective
  • Run by Cambridge students, the Cambridge Language Collective is a space for linguists and foreign language culture lovers to explore, discover and contribute to the furthering of knowledge and experience beyond the curriculum. Whether you are interested in news, views, reviews, interviews, columns or podcasts, there is a something here for you.
• MEITS
  • MEITS is a major interdisciplinary research project funded under the AHRC Open World Research Initiative. It has launched a series of language taster videos, which will give you a taste of Indonesian, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Catalan, Arabic, French, Cornish, Portuguese, Persian or Nepali.
• Cambridge Language Centre
  • Cambridge University Language Centre has developed a number of Open Courseware resources in French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

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!