Admissions Selection (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, with Particular Reference to Language Based Subjects)

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 will be facilitated by two languages specialists and will be especially useful for language-based subjects (Modern and Medieval Languages, Lingusitics, Classics, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
• Interviewers for Arts, Humanities and Social Science subjects which are not language-based and who are not able to attend workshops on other dates may choose to attend this workshop
• Interviewers selecting for Psychological and Behavioural Sciences should attend a workshop for interviewers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

• 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