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		Teachers' e-newsletter June 2012 Read the web version of this email

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Regional Teachers' Conferences

The University's Regional Teachers' Conferences aim to equip teachers with the best possible advice for their students about applying to Oxford. As the conferences run on a biennial basis, we will be revisiting areas last covered in 2010. There are still places available at the following conferences.

Date	Conference	Venue
Tuesday 3 July	South Wales	Best Western Heronston Hotel, Bridgend
Thursday 5 July	East Anglia	Best Western Ufford Park Hotel, Ipswich

For more information and to submit a booking enquiry please visit our website.


2013/14 student funding
Oxford has announced its financial support package for students from lower income households who will begin their studies in the academic year 2013/14 (subject to approval by the Office for Fair Access (OFFA). Full details can be found on our website.


Materials Science
Students applying for Materials Science courses at Oxford this year are required to take the Physics Aptitude Test on 7 November. Separate registration will be required. For further details on this, and all other Oxford admissions tests, please see our website.


Oxford's regional outreach work
As part of the University’s commitment to engage with UK schools, we have developed a programme of regional outreach. Every school in the country is linked to an Oxford college, providing you with a more personal and direct way of staying in touch with us as well as allowing us to get to know schools and colleges better in specific regions. For further details, see www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/regionallinks.


Modern foreign languages conference at St Hilda's Registration is now open for the Sir Robert Taylor Society's annual conference which provides a unique forum for interaction between Oxford's Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty and teachers of MFL in secondary schools and colleges.
Teachers will be able to find out about new research in their field, the admissions procedure at Oxford, and our approach to the teaching of language and literature. The Society is offering a number of 90% bursaries for travel and attendance to state schools/colleges. For full details please see our website.


Regent's Park College - Staton Essay Prize Competition Worth £250 to the winner, the Staton Essay Prize is an interdisciplinary essay competition open to all Year 12 students. Prize winners will be invited to a special Awards Dinner at the college.
Regent's Park College has developed a particular expertise in teaching joint honours degrees and this prize is designed to give entrants the opportunity to explore connections between the subjects they are studying or are interested in, develop their abilities for independent research, and encourage them to apply for interdisciplinary undergraduate courses. More information is available on the Regent’s Park College website.


BBC and Oxford University Press project identifies children's language needs
In an exciting collaboration with BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans’ Breakfast Show, the children’s dictionaries team at Oxford University Press has analysed the 70,075 entries in the show’s ‘500 Words Competition’. The findings help us to understand the words children are using as well as the areas they need more support with – especially when it comes to spelling, punctuation and grammar. For more information see the BBC website.


Dickens and His World exhibition
The Bodleian Summer exhibition celebrates the bicentenary of Charles Dickens. Taking place between 2 June and 28 October, the exhibition draws upon the Bodleian’s unparalleled collection of printed ephemera. The exhibition depicts in a unique way the life and times in which the novels and stories of this great writer were set. For more information please see the Bodleian website.