Looking back on Summer 2017

Autumn is one of my favourite times of the year. Cambridge looks beautiful as the leaves change to red and gold; there’s that lovely crisp weather when the sun is shining but you need to wrap up warm; and I don’t know about you, but I get that back-to-school impulse to buy lots of new…

Jenny In Reach Students, Spring

‘Reach Cambridge was definitely one of the best decisions I have made’ – Hadiya, 15

We were delighted to catch up with one of our first ever alumni from the Reach Cambridge SPRING Program, Hadiya. In this short blog, Hadiya tells us about her favourite memories from her time at Reach Cambridge and why she would recommend a Reach Cambridge experience to everyone! My name is Hadiya, I’m 15 years old…

SCGS join us for a World Readiness tailor-made program

‘Softly I am leaving,/ Just as softly as I came;/ I softly wave goodbye/ To the clouds in the western sky.’ – Xu Zhi Mo, Taking Leave of Cambridge Again It is difficult to compute that by the time you read this blog, our visitors from Singapore Chinese Girls’ School will have left the warm…

Timotej discusses student life at Reach Cambridge 2016

Having participated in the Politics and International Relations (IR) course of the Reach Cambridge summer school this year, I am glad to recommend the program to every aspiring student keen on deepening his or her knowledge in a particular subject, but also zealous to get to know an interesting bunch of people, and to experience…

Leah and Natalie remember their Tailor Made program in 2015

Each year Reach runs exciting Tailor Made programs for visiting school groups. In this blog, Leah and Natalie from Singapore Chinese Girls’ School talks about her time in Cambridge. Enjoy!: REACH CAMBRIDGE EXPERIENCE 2015: TAILOR MADE PROGRAM, SCGS Sic Itur Ad Astra – a line from Virgil’s Aenid, it is Latin for ‘thus reach for…

A Teacher’s Perspective

The course I was teaching for Reach Cambridge in 2016 covered the introduction to politics and political thought. In order to give students an idea of why we need to study past thinkers to understand politics today, we were reading primary texts by major figures that are at the core of the politics curricula at…

Trinity remembers her time at Reach Cambridge 2016

As I arrived at my accommodation in Cambridge, I was instantly made to feel at home, as I was shown to my room and got a first look at my surroundings for the coming week. Though the grounds and buildings were beautiful, I was still nervous about meeting my course mates. It was as we…

Student Tim looks forward to Reach Cambridge 2016

Ever since I was a little kid growing up in a small town on the east end of Slovakia, my grandmother – a confectioner in a local candy-store and an enthusiast of literature – has been fond of telling me about universities like Cambridge described in Jeffrey Archer’s books. “Tim, you must go to Cambridge…

Student Trinity looks forward to Reach Cambridge 2016

My name is Trinity, and I am attending the Global Leadership Program in July. I am very excited about this and I am finding it hard to wait until then! The Global...

Reach Cambridge 2015: Esther’s experience

In this blog, Esther looks back at her time in Cambridge on our 2015 summer program: Most students talk about how Reach Cambridge has made them better people or more prepared for University. That’s exactly what I’ll do too. Most of this character building comes due to the fantastic amount of work put in by…