What is The Brilliant Club?

The Brilliant Club is an award-winning charity organisation that exists to widen access to the UK’smost highly selective universities for pupils from backgrounds that traditionally have not sent manystudents to university. We do this by placing researchers from university who are studying for theirPhD, or who already hold a PhD, into schools where they deliver tutorials to pupils in small groups,similar to how students study at university. We work with primary and secondary schools, as wellas sixth form colleges. Over the last year, we have worked with over 6000 pupils and over 250schools across the UK .

What is the Scholars Programme?

The Scholars Programme is the name of the programme which places PhD researchers in schoolsto teach tutorials to pupils, based on the researcher’s specific area of study. The pupils undertakesix tutorials over the course of two months. After the tutorials the pupils tackle a challenging finalassignment pitched a level above their current Key Stage. They also visit two of the UK’s mosthighly selective universities, one at the launch of the programme, and another to celebrate theirfinal assignment and graduation. On those trips they will experience study skills sessions andinformation, advice and guidance sessions about university, held by university representatives.

The Scholars Programme timeline

Our tutors

Tutors at The Brilliant Club are either studying for orhold a PhD, the highest level of research degree. TheBrilliant Club finds PhD tutors who are passionateabout learning and keen to share their research.Examples of programmes they deliver include ‘Why doCatalans want to be independent?’, ‘UnderstandingViral Infections’, ‘We Shall Overcome: the US Civil RightsMovement’ and ‘Introduction to Volcanology’.

IAG = Information, Advice and Guidance