Youth Aspiration Day Summary - Blackburn 2008
Youth Aspiration Day 2008 Report

One of our key aims is to instigate and support initiatives to broaden access to Oxford, Cambridge and other UK Universities from communities that are at currently under-represented. It is in this light that we hope to hold a Youth Aspiration Day at Islamiyah School, Blackburn on Saturday 1st March 2008 for local Muslim girls.

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The day will include motivational talks and a number of highly interactive workshops. A provisional programme follows:

9.30 am Registration and Introduction
10.00am Importance of Education
10.20am Preparing for GCSEs/A Levels and Beyond
10.40am Break
11.00am Life at University for a Muslim
11.20am Drugs Awareness - Moulana Hasan Sidat
11.40am Muslim Youth Helpline -
12.00pm Lunch/Dhur Salaah
1.30 pm Careers Fair
4.00pm Closing Remarks and Feedback

The Aspiration Day is open to all Year 10 and 11 and is designed to give students a feel for university life as well as generating an awareness of the importance of higher education and the variety of different career and lifestyle paths available to them. We intend to have presentations on various careers including: accounting & finance, arts & media, engineering, science, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, teaching and academia.

We hope that the day’s events will help to debunk stereotypes of people with successful or educated backgrounds by demonstrating what people with similar backgrounds to their own have achieved. Above all, we believe participation at the Youth Aspiration Day will leave students with confidence and a positive feeling about their future prospects, with the inspiration to set higher goals for themselves.