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Renowned for a creative and innovative approach to teaching and research, Goldsmiths offers study opportunities in the arts and humanities, social sciences, computing, and entrepreneurial business and management. Our academic legacy stretches back to 1891, but we are always looking forward. Full of students and staff who are inventive, imaginative and original, Goldsmiths provides an environment where new ideas flourish. It’s one of the reasons students have voted us one of the UK’s top creative and political universities (Which? University 2018). For current students and recent graduates, our Careers Service offers a wide range of support and advice on achieving your ambitions. For those who Goldsmiths formed the launch pad for your career, we’d really value your insights to help those starting out – consider giving your time as career speaker or offering a placement or internship to a current student.

Harrow School is one of the world’s most well-known schools. Founded in 1572 by a local yeoman farmer, John Lyon, under a Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I, it is located on a 324-acre estate encompassing much of Harrow on the Hill in north-west London. Around 840 boys aged 13 to 18, from all over Britain and across the world, live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. There are about 120 teaching staff and over 500 non-teaching staff, working together in a friendly community. All members of staff at the School work to a single, uniting purpose: to prepare boys with diverse backgrounds and abilities for a life of learning, leadership, service and personal fulfilment. Our statement of purpose has Harrow’s boys at its heart and is borne out through our various areas of activity – teaching that helps boys achieve their best academically, pastoral care that matures them both emotionally and spiritually, and an extra-curricular programme that develops their characters and interests. Harrow is part of a much larger family, which is made up of John Lyon’s Foundation, the Harrow International Schools, and the Harrow Club (a centre for sport and education for young people in Notting Dale that the Foundation helped to establish). John Lyon’s Foundation is made up of a Charter Corporation comprising Harrow School, John Lyon School (a nearby day school for boys) Quainton Hall School, and John Lyon’s Charity (a grant-giving charity that gives over £10 million a year to schools and other organisations in the boroughs of north-west London).

Godolphin and Latymer is a school for girls aged 11-18, where the academic and pastoral sides of school life go hand-in-hand and where students energetically pursue a huge range of extra-curricular activities, clubs and societies. In the Sixth Form we offer both the A Level and IB Diploma pathways and students head to leading universities in the UK and overseas. They leave Godolphin armed with important skills they will need in a fast-changing world, able to make a positive difference to the communities in which they will live and work.