Bexhill College Celebrates EPQ Students’ Success

This year’s EPQ students have produced some spectacular projects, which we are proud to celebrate.  The EPQ allows students to select an area of academic interest (not covered in the specifications of their other courses) and undertake a research project. They record their progress, explaining their processes, thoughts, research, and decision-making, culminating in a final report and presentation of their findings.  The students have a supervisor but are expected to work independently and need to be very self-motivated.

The students who chose to produce research essays covered a huge variety of topics ranging from an exploration of whether there is an afterlife to the fall of the British Empire.  Other students chose to produce artefacts, and these included a fully functioning remote controlled plane and an educational animation exploring the issue of censorship in LGBTQ+ art.

Completing the EPQ has enabled our students to capitalise on some outstanding opportunities.  Oliver has recently secured a degree level apprenticeship with an aeronautical engineering company. He impressed the interview panel by discussing how he used 3D printers to build the components to successfully achieve two test flights of his remote-controlled plane.  Furthermore, Sasha has secured a job at Amazon as a marketing apprentice thanks to using her EPQ in the presentation to the company.  All the other members of the groups secured places on degree programmes, with many securing offers from prestigious universities like Durham and Exeter.

If you are interested in adding the EPQ to your programme of study, then please look on our website for more details on the course.