Teacher resources

What is your involvement?

To apply to a Sutton Trust Pathways Programme, each student must complete and submit the application form and nominate a teacher to verify their application.

All you will then need to do is verify the following details to the best of your knowledge (this usually only takes 10 – 15 minutes):

Grades (past and current qualifications)
Whether the student has ever been eligible for Free School Meals
Whether the student would be in the first generation in their family to attend university
Whether the student is or has ever been in care
Whether the student has received the 16-18 bursary
You do not need to be a current teacher.

What is a pathways programme?

The Pathways programmes support students to explore a career they are interested in, while providing them with the employability skills and professional network to hit the ground running when they graduate. They run over two years and each follow a similar format with the key components being work experience, a programme of after-school and weekend events, mentoring opportunities, networking events with universities and leading professionals, and a summer residential. Our six career support programmes are:

Banking and Finance (in person and online), Consulting (online), Engineering (in person), Law (in person and online), Medicine (in person), Veterinary Medicine (hybrid)

Those programmes which are in person will be run in partnership with a Russell Group University.

Application timeline

Applications open in early September.
Applications close depending on each programme and university. This is usually between the end of September and early December
Depending on each programme and university decisions are announced usually in early October to early December.

How can you help promote our programmes?

We rely on teachers to promote our programmes to disadvantaged students (for more information on our eligibility criteria, see this page) as you’re still the primary driver behind our applications! To help you in this, we have provided extensive marketing materials for you to share with your students: