Next week Bristol University is playing host to over 120 students from all over the UK who are finding out what university life is like at the eighth successive Sutton Trust residential Summer School.
The Summer School's aim is to encourage applications from students from non-traditional backgrounds aged 16+ in Year 12. These include those with no family history of university attendance, those whose parents are in non-professional occupations or who attend schools with virtually no history of sending pupils to these universities.
The Summer School is funded by the philanthropist Dr Peter Lampl through the Sutton Trust, which aims to support academically able young people from non-privileged backgrounds and to raise their aspirations so that they gain access to the best possible higher education.
But the week will not be all work and no play. In addition to their academic programme, students will be able to choose from a range of activities with current students at the Students' Union, including a film workshop, working on the student radio, Burst FM and a range of sports including rambling and football.
The University hopes that by the end of the week the students will be convinced that higher education is for them.
Antti Karjalainen, Summer School Co-ordinator said: "The summer schools are exciting and important opportunities to promote universities in general and Bristol in particular in schools that have little or no record of generating applicants for university places. We hope to attract many more bright and committed students.'