Admissions and how underrepresented communities can access higher education – This episode will provide you with an insight into how to apply for Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, it also highlights our widening participation programmes aimed at underrepresented communities. Within this episode we hear more specifically about the challenges that BAME communities face in accessing high tariff universities and what the wider university and vet school are doing to tackle these issues.
Host:
Ting En Khor - Final year vet student
Guests:
Laura Cattell - Head of Widening Participation, The University of Edinburgh
Dr Gurå Therese Bergkvist - Director of Student Recruitment and Admissions, School of Veterinary Medicine
Gurpreet Grewal-Kang – Head of Recruitment and Admissions, School of Veterinary Medicine
Information:
Royal Dick School of Veterinary Medicine – website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/vet
Email: vetug@ed.ac.uk
Vet School MOOCS (free online programmes) - https://www.ed.ac.uk/vet/studying/moocs-overview
School of Veterinary Medicine Outreach and Schools Liaison - https://www.ed.ac.uk/vet/studying/outreach-and-schools-liaison
Easter Bush Science Outreach Centre https://www.ed.ac.uk/easter-bush-campus/science-outreach-centre
Widening Participation at the University of Edinburgh - https://www.ed.ac.uk/student-recruitment/widening-participation
Widening participation projects - https://www.ed.ac.uk/student-recruitment/widening-participation/projects
ASPIRES Research, longitudinal research project studying young people's science and career aspirations - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/departments/education-practice-and-society/aspires-research