Nick Knowland
March 9, 2017
Where else can you walk on Europe’s longest open walkway and observe one of Britain’s best examples of Brutalist architecture? Squeeze twelve pupils into a tiny student’s room? Study a potential cure for Alzheimer’s disease? And all in a day? Answer: On a Brilliant Club launch event to the University of East Anglia.
Our sixth Brilliant Club visited UEA on the 1st March and, no doubt enthused by the first day of meteorological spring, had an inspiring start to their Scholar’s Programme, entitled ‘Problem proteins involved in Alzheimer’s disease.’ Along with invaluable study skills and information and guidance sessions, our pupils met their PhD lecturer, who is currently working on nothing less than a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, an illness that affects 520,000 people in the UK alone. The course is set to be one of the most challenging and fascinating yet, and their lecturer commented on how impressed she was with our pupils and their contributions in the first seminar. Who knows, we may have a budding Nobel Prize winner in our midst. After a series of four seminars at school, and a final feedback session in May, our pupils will graduate in mid-May at the University of Cambridge.
As always, the Brilliant Club aims not just to introduce pupils to a new field of study, but also to stimulate young minds thirsty for knowledge and to create the desire to one day attend one of the top universities in the country. After conversations with them, some of whom are returnees to the Brilliant Club, I know this is the case. One pupil told me: “I can really see myself studying here at UEA. I’m going to up my game!” We wish them the best and look forwards to the results in spring.
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