Admissions Selection (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)

Prerequisites

The Senior Tutors' Committee expects those involved in the undergraduate admissions selection process to receive appropriate training. Because of the new procedures being introduced, this year’s workshops will be about the entire selection process as well as interviewing techniques. Led by Admissions Tutors, these workshops are designed to help you make your contribution to the admissions selection process as effective as possible. They include opportunities to practise by interviewing current first-year undergraduates, using authentic paperwork, and they explain how interviews and admissions decisions relate to the University’s agreement with the Office for Fair Access (OFFA).

Before attending the workshop, please study the online resource. This resource provides an overview of Cambridge's undergraduate admissions process and highlights some important principles and practices relating to conducting effective admissions interviews and contributing to the selection process.

• Those with responsibility for conducting admissions interviews
• Those with responsibility for deciding about offers
• This workshop is for the following subject groups: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic; Architecture; Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Classics; Economics; Education; English; Geography; History; History of Art; Human, Social and Political Sciences; Land Economy; Law; Linguistics; Modern and Medieval Languages; Music; Philosophy; Theology and Religious Studies).
• Please note that interviewers selecting for Psychological and Behavioural Sciences should attend one of these workshops for interviewers for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
• Interviewers for language-based subjects (Modern and Medieval Languages, Linguistics, Classics, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) may wish to attend the workshop targeted particularly at interviewers in these subjects
• Interviewers for language-based subjects who are not able to attend on this date may choose to attend other workshops for interviewers in Arts, Humanities and Social Science subjects

• Before the workshop, you are asked to study the online resource
• The resource includes a link to 'Information for Admissions Interviewers for the Cambridge Colleges', and you are asked to read this document with care

Number of sessions: 1

• to be aware of ways of addressing challenges associated with interviews for admissions purposes, in order to make them more consistent and effective
• to understand how interviews and admissions decisions relate to the University’s agreement with the Office for Fair Access (OFFA)
• to understand the equal opportunities and widening participation issues connected to the admissions process
• to identify ways of personally enhancing the quality of interviews

• Workshops have been targeted at interviewers in particular groups of subjects
• If you would like to attend a workshop targeted at a group of subjects, but are not able to participate on the dates offered, additional sessions will be offered if there is adequate notice and sufficient demand

One session of three hours