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How students can help with Admissions and Open Days Undergraduates
have a vital role to play at College Open Days in May, July and
September. Visiting sixth-formers are always extremely anxious to
meet and talk with present undergraduates, to get real insights
into the undergraduate life and a sense of what Clare is like as
a College. We need about 8-10 undergraduates for each Open Day,
and the arrangements for their participation are made by the Admissions
Secretary. We also need 3 or 4 undergraduate rooms open for a short
period on each Open Day, and are very grateful for undergraduates'
co-operation in arranging this.
During the December interview
fortnight, the College runs a Student Auxilliary Portering Service.
Students who volunteer to help are paid for doing so, and can choose
where they help: (a) working in shifts, greeting the interviewees
in the Porters' Lodges, (b) invigilating the 1-hours written tests
that are required for several subjects, (c) dispensing coffee and
comfort in the Library Common Room - choosing one or more activity.
The Admissions Office will ask for volunteers during November. Because
first-year rooms are required for the interviewees, we tend to invite
second- and third-year students to volunteer.
Target Schools
is one of the University's programmes for broadening access to Cambridge.
The scheme depends on student volunteers prepared to visit schools.
Further information from the University Admissions Prospectus or
from the UCS Target Schools representative.
Clare/Tower Hamlets
Partnership for Schools
As part of Clare's current
drive to attract talent from schools with little experience of Cambridge,
the College has established a direct partnership with a small number
of schools in the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets. This partnership
aims to provide practical information about university education
in these schools, and to encourage students to aim for the best
for themselves in exploring higher education opportunities. We bring
groups of interested students to Clare, to enable them to experience
something of university life and teaching at first hand. We also
arrange visits from Clare to the schools, to provide advice about
various aspects of university life and work. We hope very much that
Clare students will want to contribute their time to this scheme,
either by accompanying Fellows on visits to London or by offering
to talk to visiting parties in Cambridge. For further information,
please contact Dr Polly O'Hanlon.
Each year a Mellon
Fellowship is offered to a final-year undergraduate or recent
graduate. The Fellowship is for two (now extendable to 3) years'
further study at Yale University. A reciprocal arrangement
brings Yale students to Clare. The awards are made on the strength
of academic performance and general merit, and on the availability
of a suitable course of study at Yale. A notice about applications
is posted on the screens outside Hall early in the Michaelmas Term.
An exchange with the Ecole
Normale Superieure brings a lecteur or lectrice to Clare each
year, and enables a Clare or recent ex-Clare Modern Linguist to
spend a year studying in Paris. Modern Linguists who wish to be
considered should submit a CV and a detailed description of their
study plans for the year to their Director of Studies by the end
of the Michaelmas Term. Further details can also be obtained from
the Director of Studies.
Clare students studying
Law may participate in two exchange schemes: the Socrates
Exchange Scheme with the Universities of Regensburg, Poitiers
and Utrecht, and the Double Maitrise Scheme with the University
of Paris II.
The Cambridge / MIT
Exchange Scheme began in academic year 2001-02 with a small
number of subjects (Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Materials
Science) and students (25). In future years, it is intended that
the exchange should be developed to encompass a much wider variety
of subjects and a much larger number of students.
The Clare-Bermondsey
Fund is a charitable trust which supports volunteer community
work in Bermondsey, mainly through the Bede House Association. Clare
members and ex-members have worked on a great variety of projects,
including young people's summer camps, adult education, day trips
to Cambridge, or support for victims of domestic violence. Further
information from the Dean or the UCS representative.
The Queens'Clare Overseas Education Fund
(QCOEF) aims to raise funds from senior and junior members of both
Colleges and to distribute them towards educational projects in
less developed parts of the world. In recent years QCOEF has supported
projects in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, India and Romania. The
usual method of contribution is by a voluntary addition to your
College Bill (with which further details will be circulated).
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