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5 top tips for running a successful geography club

April 12, 2016Oxford Geography Team
Three school girls studying globe

If you are keen to engage and extend pupils in geography, outside of the constraints of the curriculum, then you may be considering setting up an extra-curricular geography club, or ‘GeogSoc’, as it is known at my school. I read recently that heads of university admissions are placing more value on extra-curricular activities than they […]

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Boosting the profile of your geography department

November 30, 2015September 26, 2017Oxford Geography Team

There is no doubt that the profile of geography is in rude health: geography is the “must-have A level” according to an article in The Guardian last August and reports from the Royal Geographical Society show that geography is now the 8th most popular subject at A level (having seen the largest increase in entries of any subject in […]

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