Top grades and challenging interviews are an expected part of getting into Cambridge University. Now teenagers face the same process for a place at a sixth form the university is creating.
Applications close next week for Cambridge Maths School, opening in September and which offers A levels in maths, further maths, physics, chemistry and computer science. Hundreds of candidates will vie for 40 places.
It is hoping to boost the number of girls and disadvantaged pupils taking maths and is located next to the city’s railway station so that teenagers from coastal and fenland towns can attend. Cambridge Maths School hopes to inspire pupils to follow in the footsteps of famous university mathematicians such as Isaac Newton, Alan Turing, Philippa Fawcett, Charles Babbage and Bertrand.
