Nearly 30 universities visited Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College last week for our annual HE Fair, at which students and their parents had the chance to learn more about the courses they can study, and the institutions they can attend, when they leave the College next year. The Fair was, as in previous years, a very busy event with hundreds of visitors contributing to a fantastic atmosphere all evening. One HE representative commented, “This was genuinely one of the best careers fairs we’ve ever been to! We’d love to come back again and thoroughly enjoyed talking to your students”, while another said, “I didn’t stop all evening! It was really worthwhile. Your students were engaged and came prepared with questions: a credit to the college!”
Hope Whitten, a first year student who visited the event said, “ I was amazed at how many universities were there, from all across the country. The advisers were really easy to talk to and I left with loads of useful information..”
Rachael Duff, QE’s Careers Lead, stressed the importance of students and universities speaking to each other at events like this: “Unless students meet representatives of universities and go on to visit the places themselves, they can’t fully understand the huge range of options available to them after College. Our HE Fair will have transformed the future plans of many students and we look forward to holding it again next year.”
