For school students in Years 10 to 13 & sixth form
Work experience, summer schools, access programmes and apprenticeships.
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 and the dates each is expected to open.
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Most Year 12 work experience opens between November and April, and apprenticeship intakes in the autumn. The schemes expected to open next are listed below with their likely dates; the tracker refreshes every few minutes and moves each one up here the moment it goes live.
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Opening soon · 2027 intake
13 schemes expected to open, 1 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
Women in Maths Residential (Trinity and Christ's Colleges, Cambridge) · Summer school
Expected 1 Nov to 30 Nov · opened 15 Nov 2025 last cycle
Could open any day
December 2026
UNIQ (University of Oxford) · Summer school
Expected 1 Dec to 31 Dec · opened 15 Dec 2025 last cycle
Coming upIn2STEM (In2scienceUK) · Summer school
Expected 1 Dec to 31 Dec · opened 15 Dec 2025 last cycle
Coming up
January 2027
Imperial Year 12 Sutton Trust Summer School (Imperial College London) · Summer school
Expected 1 Jan to 31 Jan · opened 15 Jan 2026 last cycle
Coming upCambridge Sutton Trust Summer Schools (University of Cambridge) · Summer school
Expected 1 Jan to 31 Jan · opened 15 Jan 2026 last cycle
Coming upNational Access Summer School (NASS) · Summer school
Expected 1 Jan to 31 Jan · opened 15 Jan 2026 last cycle
Coming upNottingham Sutton Trust Summer Schools (University of Nottingham) · Summer school
Expected 1 Jan to 31 Jan · opened 15 Jan 2026 last cycle
Coming upSutton Trust UK Summer Schools (The Sutton Trust) · Summer school
Expected 1 Jan to 31 Jan · opened 15 Jan 2026 last cycle
Coming upImperial Year 12 Work Experience Programme (Imperial College London) · Summer school
Expected 1 Jan to 31 Jan · opened 15 Jan 2026 last cycle
Coming upEdinburgh Sutton Trust Summer School (University of Edinburgh) · Summer school
Expected 1 Jan to 31 Jan · opened 15 Jan 2026 last cycle
Coming upGlasgow Sutton Trust Summer School (University of Glasgow) · Summer school
Expected 1 Jan to 31 Jan · opened 15 Jan 2026 last cycle
Coming up
April 2027
Experience Christ's Summer Schools (Christ's College, University of Cambridge) · Summer school
Expected 1 Apr to 30 Apr · opened 15 Apr 2026 last cycle
Coming upExeter Scholars National Residential Pathway (University of Exeter) · Summer school
Expected 1 Apr to 30 Apr · opened 15 Apr 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.