Access & Outreach ....................................................................................................................
Ralph Mainard Deputy Master External t: +44 (0)20 8299 9304 e: mainard @ dulwich.org.uk College Bursaries
As a privileged institution we believe that we should demonstrate in a tangible way to boys at the College that privilege brings responsibility. This falls into two broad categories: links with education in the UK and, secondly, partnership schools overseas. Details of our outreach are covered in the following sub-sections. City Heights Academy & Bonus Pastor Catholic College The College works closely with E-ACT City Heights Academy. The focus is in three areas: governance, management, and staff and students. In practice this means that the College has staff who act as governors, we encourage links between heads of subject to visit the College and for College heads of subject to visit the Academy. Recent leavers from the College who are taking a gap year, called Mentors, work with students at the Academy, helping develop skills in core subjects such as Modern Languages, English and Mathematics. The Mentors usually spend the first two terms at the Academy and they are directly employed by it. More recently, our Physics department has begun providing enrichment classes for Bonus Pastor Catholic College in Bromley. The aim is to stretch the school’s most gifted 15 and 16 year old pupils and inspire them to study Physics or another Science at A level. Pupils come to the College each week and are presented with a range of activities that have incorporated: using data logging equipment to look at infrared radiation; modelling air resistance with water rockets; and lectures on the search for the Higgs boson. We have been impressed with the level of enthusiasm and interest shown. In 2015 the programme will expand to the other sciences and will include some of our Upper School boys running projects.
In 2013-14 the College spent just over £2m on bursaries for 158 boys. The main recipients of bursaries are boys at the College from Years 7 to 13 and most bursaries are awarded as a result of the College’s entrance examinations at 11+ or 13+. Bursary places are generally only awarded to boys who fall into the upper half of the entry examinations. In addition, each year the College holds a small reserve of funding for what are called ‘discretionary bursaries’; awarded when a full fee paying family suddenly faces a financial crisis, there is a focus on boys in examination years. All bursaries are means tested, not only at the point of entry but also in each successive year. The value of a bursary ranges from 100% to 10%. There is a strong commitment to awarding as many ‘deep bursaries’ as possible – those that cover 75-100% of fees. College scholarships are not means tested and thus if a boy is awarded a bursary, any scholarship will be added to the bursary award up to 100% of fees. The College funds its bursaries from two sources. The Bursary Appeal Fund is a permanent endowment fund that currently totals £7.9m and last year produced an income to fund bursaries of £238,000. The remainder of the total is paid from the College’s general funds and, in particular, income from its commercial activities and monies from the Dulwich Estate. The College is currently reviewing its bursary funding with a view to increasing the number of bursaries, for example by considering further sponsored bursaries and some boarding bursaries.
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