How to Spot Potential

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Kate Mason presents a series exploring human potential in various walks of life.

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How to Spot Potential: Education, education, education

Education, education, education

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When potential to learn meets opportunity to access knowledge, wonderful things can happen

When potential to learn meets opportunity to access knowledge, wonderful things can happen.

For many university is not something they’d consider. It can appear expensive, elitist and alien. And in any case there just aren’t the opportunities.

 Kate Mason looks at one initiative which is making strides to change those perceptions and the lack of opportunity. We look at a project involving an Oxford college designed to give people with huge potential - but not usually the opportunity, their chance to study at a top university. 

Alan Rusbridger, editor of Prospect magazine, explains how the scheme came into being when he was Principal of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford.

Vee Kativhu tells us how the project set her on a journey to empower others and a role with the United Nations .

Jake Pickering discusses how he went from teaching himself to a PHD at Cambridge

Aneela Shah on overcoming family resistance to the idea of university

And Ras. I Martin on his journey from a inner London council estate to Oxford’s spires.

Presenter : Kate Mason.
Producer : Julian Siddle.

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