From care to harvard : a case study of who cares? Scotland’s scholarship for young people in care to attend harvard summer school

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Connelly, Graham and Boyce, Pauline (2012) From care to harvard : a case study of who cares? Scotland’s scholarship for young people in care to attend harvard summer school. In: EUSARF, 2012-09-04 - 2012-09-07.

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Abstract

Who Cares? Scotland provides individual advocacy services to children in residential and foster care placements, campaigns more generally for the rights of children in care and collaborates with stakeholders to improve the circumstances of looked after children in Scotland. In 2010 the charity set up a scholarship programme to support young people to attend the Harvard University Secondary Summer School. The scholarship programme aims to be a high-profile demonstration of academic aspirations for children in care and to provide a special opportunity for individual young people progressing to college or university. This paper presents a case study of the programme and outlines findings from interviews with the first five scholarships award holders. The paper also discusses the young people’s experiences in relation to the wider context of academic achievement of looked after children in Scotland and the wider international literature about the education of children in care.

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Connelly, Graham ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9798-5499 and Boyce, Pauline;
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