{"id":247,"date":"2018-07-18T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=247"},"modified":"2019-07-15T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:18:21","slug":"aston-university-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/aston-university-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston University Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Aston_Uni.jpg\" alt=\"Aston University Visit to Bridgnorth Endowed\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Aston_Uni.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Aston_Uni-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Year 8 pupils standing in response to questions from Aston University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Birmingham\u2019s Aston University delivered an enlightening talk on higher education to Year 8 students earlier this term.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation tackled topics ranging from finance and study to getting to grips with the terminology. Day-to-day basics like cooking, socialising and living away from home or commuting were also covered.<\/p>\n<p>All pathways to Higher Education were outlined during the discussion and, at the end, students took part in a lively question and answer session.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Mitchell, Careers Lead reports: \u201cIt was wonderful to see so many inquisitive Bridgnorth Endowed students asking relevant and incisive questions in relation to attainment and routes to university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To help students make informed choices and enable them to meet their aspirations, a plan is firmly in place to invite more speakers to the school next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham\u2019s Aston University delivered an enlightening talk on higher education to Year 8 students earlier this term. The presentation tackled topics ranging from finance and study to getting to grips with the terminology. Day-to-day basics like cooking, socialising and living away from home or commuting were also covered. All pathways to Higher Education were outlined &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/aston-university-talk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aston University Talk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}