The Insight Programme

The Economist Community Editor, TV Presenter & Journalist during the Insight Programme

 

Recent speakers have included a BlackRock Fund Manager, the Public Engagement Manager for the Institute of Cancer Research, a National Geographic Explorer and pangolin expert, Lead Data Scientist for Depop, and Emma Freud, journalist and producer for Notting Hill, Love Actually and more.

The talks all take place on a Wednesday lunchtimes – between 12pm – 1.00pm – and comprise a 30 minute presentation and Q&A with about 200 Sixth Form students. It is part of a range of initiatives aimed at building a universal expectation amongst our students that high level ambitions can be realised, to give them a wider range of skills and ideas to access higher education, and in particular the top universities.

“It is part of a range of initiatives aimed at building a universal expectation amongst our students that high level ambitions can be realised, to give them a wider range of skills and ideas to access higher education, and in particular the top universities”.

The Lord Mayor of London with students after addressing the Sixth Form Insight Programme