The Brilliant Club

General information

The Brilliant Club is an award-winning charity that exists to widen access to highly-selective universities for pupils from non-selective state schools. We aim to increase access by recruiting, training and placing doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in schools and sixth form colleges to deliver programmes of university-style tutorials to small groups of pupils. This is the Scholars Programme, through which pupils develop the knowledge, skills and ambition that help them to secure places at highly-selective universities.

In 2013/14 we worked with over 200 schools and college across the country, placing over 250 PhD tutors to work with more than 5,000 pupils. We worked closely with our partner universities, including Aston University, Durham University, King's College, London, Royal Holloway, University of London, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of Sussex, the University of Warwick and a number of colleges at the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.