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Determination and Career Aspirations IN THIS ISSUE An exclusive interview with BBC Political Editor, Nick Robinson AUTUMN 2014 | ISSUE 5 Olivia Lambley IntoUniversity Nottingham East Determination and career aspirations Sophie Count travelled to Nottingham When asked about other parts of the Vicky cites the University Mentoring Scheme recently to visit a student called Olivia and her IntoUniversity programme that she particularly as a part of the IntoUniversity programme that mother, Vicky, during an Academic Support enjoyed, Olivia spoke with excitement about the Olivia has particularly benefitted from. ‘She’s really session at IntoUniversity’s Nottingham East trips the class took to the University of Nottingham enjoyed working with Annie and having that one- centre. Olivia has been attending Academic where they participated in a graduation-style to-one time. I’ve read the letters that they have Support at IntoUniversity Nottingham East ceremony to celebrate the achievements of a sent to each other and I was very impressed with since November 2012 and is 11 years old. She Primary FOCUS Week and were even allowed to the way Olivia described everything – her writing recently made the transition between primary ‘throw the hats in the air’ as they graduated. Visiting was really grown up and descriptive which I’ve and secondary school, and started Nottingham Contemporary art gallery and Magna never seen before – it’s beautiful.’ Sophie Count at Nottingham Academy this autumn. Science Adventure Centre were some of Olivia’s The most important thing about IntoUniversity other highlights of her time so far at the centre. Sophie has been a Fundraising Olivia’s Story for Vicky is that the staff ‘seem to see the potential Officer at IntoUniversity The most striking thing about Olivia is definitely in Olivia… They just see everything that I can see since November 2013 and is responsible for individual her ambition. Halfway through our interview, Even though she’s only 11 in her.’ As well as proving that she is committed to giving at the charity. She whilst calmly exuding the wisdom of somebody she knows where she wants the IntoUniversity programme, Olivia has recently previously studied for an twice her age, she revealed that she has decided to be in 10 years’ time been voted as a student council member to MSc in Social and Cultural to pursue a career as a vet. She has even started represent her peers at meetings and help to make Psychology at LSE and was a to research how she might achieve this, working key decisions on curriculum topics at the centre. sabbatical officer, representing with her mentor Annie, a University of Nottingham Olivia’s mum’s story On the subject of Olivia’s determination and career postgraduate students within student, to create posters and collect information Vicky first heard about the opening of aspirations, her mum says, ‘I’m sure she’ll become the students’ union. on the steps she can take to reach her goal. She IntoUniversity Nottingham East through Olivia’s a vet because she’s said she will. Even though she’s was also extremely keen to tell me about the school so she and Olivia went along to find out only 11 she knows where she wants to be in 10 excellent cheesecake she and Annie had baked in more when the centre officially opened. Olivia years’ time.’ one of their sessions together. has been attending regularly ever since. For Vicky, the centre represents a space where her daughter When I caught up with Olivia’s mum again recently Olivia admits that a personal area of concern for her is able to sit down and concentrate on her work. I was delighted to discover that Olivia had just when she first started attending the IntoUniversity ‘I’ve got two older children who’ve got ADHD received her SATs grades, and that they were centre was her spelling. After asking Emma (one of and Asperger’s and whenever Olivia sat down to mainly level 4s and 5s. These grades put her on our delivery staff at Nottingham East) for support in do any homework or when I sat down with her, par with, if not slightly higher than, others in her this area, she has noticed a great improvement in they would try and interrupt in multiple ways.’ age group. Vicky was understandably extremely her literacy skills and self-confidence, and adds that Vicky therefore saw the IntoUniversity centre pleased with Olivia’s achievements as she has the recent Year 6 SATs were ‘easy’. as an excellent opportunity for Olivia to receive excelled and shown a significant improvement in additional support with her literacy and numeracy the last few years. outside of school in a calm and productive environment. She also reveals that Olivia’s behaviour has been steadily improving since attending the centre. aspire | IntoUniversity | Autumn 2014 It was about having self-belief In an exclusive article for aspire, Mary Ann He excelled academically, helped by parents He won a place at Oxford, but had a serious car Sieghart interviews Nick Robinson about his with high expectations for him. Sometimes too crash and was forced to take a year off before childhood, education and just what it was that high: ‘When I got all As in one set of O levels, my going. He was in and out of hospital, so unable so successfully shaped his career. mother’s first response was, “That doesn’t mean to travel. Instead he wrote to Piccadilly Radio, you’ll get As in all your A levels.” That was the first the local station, and asked for a week’s work There’s a reassuringly Everyman quality to the thing she said!’ He did, mind you – four of them, in experience. It led to eight months’ proper work, balding, bespectacled Political Editor of the BBC, Maths, Physics, Chemistry and General Studies. with lots of on-air reporting. Nick Robinson. His voice still has a tinge of his Manchester roots. He exudes calm and common ‘There was bags of luck and quite a lot of chutzpah, sense. He is clearly erudite but there’s never a but I didn’t use any connections. The connection Nick Robinson hint of condescension in his explanations of the He always had a with Brian Redhead gave me the inspiration, but Nick Robinson is a journalist intricacies of Westminster politics. If, as rumoured, sneaking ambition to he had nothing to do with my further career. It was and the current BBC Political he stands down after the general election next about having the self-belief that said I could write Editor. He studied for a degree year, we’ll all miss his wise musings on the big go into broadcasting to someone and say, “Can I pop in and see you?”’ in Politics, Philosophy and news bulletins. Economics at University College, His advice to aspiring broadcasters now is not to Oxford. Nick has had a varied So what’s his story? Who inspired him along the You might have expected him to go into a write to on-air people like him, who are inundated and successful career in way? And did he always want to be a broadcaster? scientific career after that. But Robinson had sat with requests, but to find out who produces a journalism since joining the BBC favourite programme and contact him or her Robinson went to a school that started life as the a career aptitude test as a teenager. ‘I went in in 1986 as a Production Trainee. instead. ‘They’re much more likely to have the time Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks’ Orphan thinking I wanted to be a lawyer, a journalist or and be flattered by the attention. You’ll get a better School, set up in the Victorian era to educate a doctor and the test said I should be a lawyer, a strike rate.’ children whose fathers had died. By the time he journalist or a doctor. So I did science A levels just joined, at the age of eight, it had been renamed to keep more options open.’ And what now for Robinson? Well, many are Cheadle Hulme School and had direct grant He had always had a sneaking ambition to go tipping him, after the election, as the next new status – meaning that half its pupils paid fees into broadcasting since he met his best friend’s presenter of the Today programme. It would and the other half, selected on academic merit, father at the age of eight. This was Brian Redhead, be a peculiarly fitting end to an ambition that were educated for free. Robinson stayed there a longstanding presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today began when he was just an eight-year-old boy in for another ten years. programme. ‘From a really young age, I knew this Manchester talking to his best friend’s dad. ‘It was very socially mixed, and I liked that,’ he was what I wanted to do. It didn’t seem such a wild Mary Ann Sieghart recalls. ‘I had the chance later to move to an idea because I knew him. If you don’t know anyone like that, you’re less likely to think, “These things will Mary Ann spent 19 years as an independent school, but I stayed because I liked Assistant Editor and columnist the mix – and the girls!’ Cheadle Hulme also had be open to me.”’ on The Times before leaving to a relaxed, rounded feel to it. Robinson enjoyed Then, at a school careers fair, parents came in to pursue other interests. She is drama, and played a Communist commissar in a talk about their jobs.
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