Pupils urged to aim for professions

STUDENTS from a Yorkshire city are being encouraged to consider careers in medicine, accountancy, journalism, law, architecture and pharmacy as part of a drive to get more people from deprived backgrounds to go to university.

By The Newsroom

Published 9th Feb 2011, 06:00 BST

Aimhigher West Yorkshire has launched a programme called Preparing for the Professions for pupils in their first year of A-levels in Bradford schools.

The course, which starts this month, is aimed at getting pupils to think about what they will need to achieve to secure places in some of the most competitive university courses in the country.

Jonathan Higgins, director of Aimhigher West Yorkshire, said “Students will increase their understanding of the routes into different professions and make valuable links with universities and employers.”

Programmes will be run from Bradford, Leeds and Huddersfield Universities along with Leeds Trinity University College.

Preparing for the Professions is open to year 12 students with strong academic potential who have no experience of higher education in their immediate family or those who have been in care.