On Wednesday 27 January, the School was delighted to celebrate the considerable academic endeavour and achievements of our Aske Project prize winners.
With academic enquiry that readily reaches beyond an A level standard and even into original research, our students explored questions of bio-engineering and climate change, the home bias in economics, mathematical modelling and Covid-19, the growth of populism, an examination of the use of RNAi to cure Huntingdon’s Disease and the survival of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1920s and 30s, to name but a few.
The Aske Project required that students independently research a question of their own choosing over a period of six months. As verified by our external markers and viva examiners, our students achieve undergraduate standards of research and their projects demonstrate their curiosity, innovative and critical thinking, all framed within high standards of research methodology. The process, alongside their A level studies, prepares them exceptionally well for university.
Starting this year the Aske Project has evolved into a new Aske Level which seeks to go further in developing this skills with a new bespoke programme of staff support and skills development for all Lower Sixth Form students across the Boys and Girls Schools. The final Aske Project cohort have succeeded in setting a very high standard for them to build on in the pursuit of their interests.
We are very proud of all of our students, both for their commitment to academic enquiry and for the stunning results that their hard work achieves. Many congratulations to them all.
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