For school students in Years 10 to 13 & sixth form
Work experience, summer schools, access programmes and apprenticeships.
11 UK schemes open right now, and the dates the rest are expected to open. Year 12 work experience at banks, law and Big Four firms, university summer schools and access programmes, and degree apprenticeships, with the school years each is open to.
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Closes 29 JanAccess programme · Newcastle upon Tyne · 1 month ago
Closes 11 FebAccess programme · Birmingham · 1 month ago
Closes 11 DecAccess programme · Various (UK) · 1 month ago
Closes 22 FebAccess programme · London · 1 month ago
Closes 13 DecAccess programme · Manchester · 1 month ago
14 days leftAccess programme · Online · 1 month ago
RollingAccess programme · Liverpool · 1 month ago
ClosedAccess programme · Oxford · 1 month ago
Closes 22 FebAccess programme · London · 1 month ago
Opening soon · 2027 intake
12 schemes expected to open, 10 any day now
Worked out from when each scheme opened last cycle, so you can get your application ready before the window opens rather than after. Each row moves into the live table the moment the firm goes live.
Any day now
Access to Sheffield (Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences) · Access programme
Expected 1 Sep to 30 Sep · opened 15 Sep 2025 last cycle
Later than last yearAccess to Sheffield (STEM) · Access programme
Expected 1 Sep to 30 Sep · opened 15 Sep 2025 last cycle
Later than last yearAmbition Nottingham: 16-18 (University of Nottingham) · Access programme
Expected 1 Sep to 30 Sep · opened 15 Sep 2025 last cycle
Later than last yearPathways to Medicine at Imperial College London · Access programme
Expected 1 Sep to 30 Sep · opened 15 Sep 2025 last cycle
Later than last yearSTEM SMART (University of Cambridge) · Access programme
Expected 1 Sep to 30 Sep · opened 15 Sep 2025 last cycle
Later than last yearTarget Oxbridge (Rare Recruitment) · Access programme
Expected 1 Sep to 30 Sep · opened 15 Sep 2025 last cycle
Later than last yearExeter Scholars South West On-Campus Pathway (University of Exeter) · Access programme
Expected 1 Sep to 30 Sep · opened 15 Sep 2025 last cycle
Later than last yearLiverpool Scholars (University of Liverpool) · Access programme
Expected 1 Sep to 30 Sep · opened 15 Sep 2025 last cycle
Later than last yearPathway Opportunity Programme (Queen's University Belfast) · Access programme
Expected 1 Sep to 30 Sep · opened 15 Sep 2025 last cycle
Later than last yearK+ (King's College London) · Access programme
Expected 1 Oct to 31 Oct · opened 15 Oct 2025 last cycle
Later than last year
January 2027
Destination Durham (successor to Supported Progression) · Access programme
Expected 1 Jan to 31 Jan · opened 15 Jan 2026 last cycle
Coming up
March 2027
Warwick Scholars (Post-16) · Access programme
Expected 1 Mar to 31 Mar · opened 15 Mar 2026 last cycle
Coming up
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Who is this tracker for?
School students in Years 10 to 13, including sixth form and college. It lists work experience and insight programmes at firms, university summer schools and access programmes, and apprenticeships you can apply to before university, and each listing shows the school years it's open to.
What is an access programme, and why are they listed with work experience?
Access programmes are free, selective schemes run by universities and charities for state school students: UNIQ at Oxford, STEM SMART and HE+ at Cambridge, K+ at King's, Queen Mary Futures, the Sutton Trust summer schools and Pathways programmes, the Social Mobility Foundation's Aspiring Professionals Programme. Many come with a reduced offer, a residential or a work placement at a partner firm, and they are what sixth formers ask about most. Nothing else tracks them alongside employer schemes, so this page does.
When do applications open?
Most Year 12 work experience opens between November and April for the following summer; university summer schools and access programmes open between October and March; apprenticeship intakes open in the autumn of your final school year. The Opening soon list on this page gives the expected window for each scheme that has not opened yet, worked out from when it opened last cycle or from the date the organiser has announced.
Where do these listings come from?
Employer schemes are read from the firms' own careers sites and from an aggregated feed within minutes of going live. University and charity programmes have no feed, so they are kept in a reviewed list and each organiser's page is re-read every few days for this cycle's dates. Spot something wrong and the Report button on the row tells us.
What's the difference between work experience and an apprenticeship?
Work experience and insight programmes are short (usually a few days to two weeks) and designed to show you what a career is like. Apprenticeships (including degree apprenticeships) are paid, multi-year roles you start after school instead of, or alongside, a traditional degree.
Which of the apprenticeships are degree apprenticeships?
The ones labelled Degree apprenticeship on the row, and the Degree apprenticeships chip at the top shows only those. A degree apprenticeship is Level 6 (a full bachelor's degree, paid for by the employer, alongside the job) or Level 7 (a solicitor apprenticeship, for example). Higher apprenticeships are Level 4 or 5, and the accountancy firms' school leaver programmes lead to a professional qualification rather than a degree. The label is read from the title the employer gave the role, so a posting called only "Apprenticeship Programme" is left unlabelled: open it to check the level.
Should I apply early or wait?
Apply early. Many firms review on a rolling basis and close once they have enough strong candidates. The first few weeks of a window are usually less competitive than the final deadline.
How fresh are the openings?
The tracker checks employers every few minutes and new schemes usually appear within minutes of going live on the firm's careers site.