--- title: "Year 12 Higher Education Week" url: "https://riverside-secondary.com/news/2018-07-10-year-12-higher-education-week" school: "Riverside Secondary School" --- [Click here to apply for Riverside 6th Form](https://riversideschool.applicaa.com/year12) # Year 12 Higher Education Week ![Image of Year 12 Higher Education Week](https://files.schudio.com/riverside-secondary-school/images/news/164.jpg) 10 July 2018 **Year 12 Higher Education Week:** **The year 12s have spent the last week preparing themselves for the step up to higher education. Instead of lessons they have had several outside speakers come in to help them decide on their future. This included UCL and Queen Mary universities to help the students choose the right course and write the perfect personal statement.** **The students then learnt about employability skills with Young Enterprise, Amazing Apprenticeships discussed degree level apprenticeships and Uni Dosh demonstrated how to manage finances at university. The students were also taught leadership, confidence building and self-awareness skills with Andrew from Inside Knowledge.** **![](https://riverside-secondary.com/images/164a.jpg)![](https://riverside-secondary.com/images/164b.jpg)It has been a fantastic week and the year 12s have really enjoyed themselves!** [ Eight Students from Riverside enter Maths Competition](https://riverside-secondary.com/news/2018-07-06-eight-students-from-riverside-enter-maths-competition) [Riverside School joins national high-performing schools network ](https://riverside-secondary.com/news/2018-07-11-riverside-school-joins-national-high-performing-schools-network) ![Riverside Secondary School](https://files.schudio.com/riverside-secondary-school/images/logo/Logo_Footer.png) ### Riverside Secondary School Renwick Road Barking IG11 0FU 0203 946 5888 ### Social Media - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/riverside_campus/) [![Partnership Learning](https://files.schudio.com/riverside-secondary-school/images/logo/AAAPartnership-Learning_white.png)](https://partnershiplearning.com) © Copyright 2026 Riverside Secondary School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://riverside-secondary.com/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)