Students Head in Right Direction

Year 11 students from across Greater Merseyside have received guidance on their future courtesy of a careers event at Edge Hill.

The university hosted Directions Day for students on Transitions ? an Aimhigher project designed to prepare young people for higher education.

The students - from the boroughs of Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens, Wirral and Halton - spent time with Connexions representatives to identify the different directions open to them post GCSE and worked with project officers to discuss goal-setting, where they would like to be in ten years time and how to get there.

Aimhigher project officer Linzi Garratt said: "Aimhigher is all about raising aspirations and encouraging those under-represented in higher education to prepare for, and take up study opportunities at universities and colleges.

"Events such as this help to paint a clearer picture in the students? minds of what their options are when they leave school."

During the afternoon group sessions students took part in a balloon relay, a film quiz and mummy race (pictured).