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 Boys first consider their career paths during lessons in Social Personal And Citizenship Education (SPACE) in their first five years at the School. Once in the Sixth Form, a wealth of more detailed advice is available.Most pupils win places at Russell Group universities or other leading universities: they follow a wide range of courses, although certain subjects, such as medicine, law, economics and accountancy are traditional destinations for JLS boys. Even when boys know exactly what path they wish to follow, we offer a helping hand. For example, we make sure those wanting to read mathematics understand that university maths departments generally frown on students taking a gap year after A levels. (It is felt they may lose their ‘edge’.) Pupils also benefit from the strong relationships JLS has built up with university admissions tutors. The School has an annual UCAS day, at which leading universities are represented. Visiting speakers include not only members of staff from the universities concerned, but also Old Lyonians who are current undergraduates. We also have a UCAS office, which is a source of useful information. Each year, there are also School visits to universities, including an excursion by the whole of the Lower Sixth to Warwick to see a good campus university, and a visit by potential medics to Nottingham University. There is also an annual visit to a day conference aimed at pupils considering Oxford or Cambridge. A growing range of Sixth Form work-shadowing opportunities exists, particularly for aspiring medics, who can spend time on a ward at Harrow’s Northwick Park Hospital in or in local dentist surgeries. |