CU Membership - setting up a CU within the British Isles
The following information applies to starting up a Children's
University within the British Isles. If you are outside the
British Isles, please see the information on international
membership.
The Children's University is an organisation offering children
aged 7 to 14 an exciting and innovative programme of high quality
learning opportunities outside school hours, with a focus on
rewarding participation, raising aspirations and encouraging
engagement with learning. The strength of the Children's University
is its flexibility to meet local needs through local centres,
underpinned by a rigorous quality assurance procedure and the
support of the Children's University (CU) Trust.
Children's University provision is delivered after school, at
weekends and in the holidays. Children's University™ centres are
diverse in shape and size: some may be quite small clusters of
schools while others may involve much wider local partnerships of
schools, universities and local authorities, as well as business
partnerships, museums, galleries, theatres and other organisations.
The Children's University supports whichever approach will work
best locally to bring benefits to children.
Our different centres offer high quality learning in many forms.
While this may be in 'traditional' academic subjects, the
Children's University also seeks to complement the work of schools
by offering diverse opportunities and supporting innovative
approaches to learning. A centre might offer art, astronomy or
drama, music or maths, science or sport, philosophy, poetry or
photography, or any combination of these and other subjects
according to the expertise available locally. The Children's
University also commissions curriculum initiatives that may bring
benefits across a range of centres.