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Series of images featuring student work including portrait painting, jewellery, styling photoshoot, print making and at work in the photiography studio
Series of images featuring student work including portrait painting, jewellery, styling photoshoot, print making and at work in the photiography studio
Insights Summer Schools 2025, UAL | Video stills: Ishavishali Chandrakumar, Aleks Faust and Thanseela Abul Kabeer, Thai Madendrakumar

Join free, hands-on programmes that support your creative expression, future study and career.

For students aged 16+

We offer year-round opportunities to access creative activities and pre-university guidance in a huge variety of subjects. Join our:

Applications for our autumn-winter schools 2026/27 will open in early September 2026. Come back to this page then if you'd like to apply.

What will I get from taking part?

  • Figure out which subjects interest you.
  • Build confidence in creative techniques.
  • Get to know like-minded people.
  • Create work for your future portfolio.
  • Get advice about going to university.
A series of images featuring close up of screen printing, a group of students laughing and waving at camera and a student in photoshoot looking at the camera with petals on their face.
Insights Summer School activities 2025, UAL | Video stills: Ishavishali Chandrakumar, Aleks Faust and Thanseela Abul Kabeer

Who can take part? Our eligibility criteria

All applicants must be:


16+ years and studying A-Levels and/or Level 3 Diplomas at a UAL Outreach partner school or college in London.

We also recognise that there are other informal education courses, clubs and life experiences that provide excellent equivalent experience outside of schools and colleges. We'll consider applicants from these backgrounds on a case-by-case basis.

Students on the Foundation programme at UAL are not eligible but are supported by UAL's Academic Support Teams.

We'll consider your application if you meet 1 or more of following criteria:

  • You are currently in or have been in care.
  • You live in a priority postcode area (using the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), areas in deciles 1 to 4).
  • You live in a household that receives benefits for living costs, including: Universal Credit; Child Tax Credit; Free School Meals; Housing Benefit; Income Support; Income-based Job Seekers Allowance.
  • You have no parent or guardian that has completed a university degree.

Under 16 years old?

If you're in Year 10-11, you can join our Saturday Club or Creative Studios. Find out more.

Email outreach@arts.ac.uk

Get in touch for any questions about our programmes or eligibility criteria.

Connect with Insights

Head to @ual_insights  for videos that introduce you to our activities and projects.

Explore the Insights Linktree and YouTube for more content, news and resources.

UAL Insights privacy notice

This notice sets out how UAL’s Outreach programme, UAL Insights, uses your personal information. Your information is collected when you register for one our programmes using our online forms.

University of the Arts London (UAL) will process the information you provide on this form and personal data collected or created as part of our relationship with you.

We will also process your health or other sensitive data under GDPR 9(2)(a) ‘explicit consent of the data subject’ (you, the student), where you wish to tell us of special requirements.