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Insights: apply

Black and white collage with blue and magental background. The collage features students standing in a group showing their scaled up object, a giant plug made from paper and card
Black and white collage with blue and magental background. The collage features students standing in a group showing their scaled up object, a giant plug made from paper and card
Insights banner 2024, UAL | Photograph: Thai Mahendrakumar | Design direction: Bond & Coyne

Find out how your interests and identity can be the force behind your creative expression, future study and career.

For students aged 16 + years

Come to our Colleges for creative activities and pre-university advice.

Activities are free to attend, materials and refreshments are provided.

Take part

Join our:

  • Spring Schools (April)
  • Summer Schools (June/July)
  • Autumn-Winter Schools (October onwards)

Explore our Insights Linktree for more information, inspiration and resources.

Insights celebration event, 2024, UAL | Photograph: Aleks Faust

Who can apply?

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’ll consider your application if you meet 1 or more of the 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.
  • have no parent or guardian that has completed a university degree.

Before you apply

Students must provide accurate information regarding this eligibility criteria. If you don't it may affect your application to the Insights programme and UAL.

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

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.

We're here to help

Get in touch for any questions about our eligibility or programmes:  outreach@arts.ac.uk

Autumn – Winter School applications are closed

Up next: Spring Schools – April 2025.

Are you a 1st year Level 3 Diploma or A Level student? Check back in early January for more news.

Inspiration and resources

  • A collaged image with a blue background featuriing a person leaning to the right whilst wearing an angular structure
    Shape your portfolio banner, 2021, UAL | Photograph: Jerry Florez | Design direction: UAL Outreach

    Insights: shape your portfolio

    Learn from Insights students now studying at UAL. Build your skills and knowledge with resources made by our community of UAL tutors and students.

  • A collaged image with a yellow background featuring a close up of hands operating a sound app on a mobile phone
    How to banner, 2021, UAL | Video still: Dalia Dawood | Design Direction: UAL Outreach

    Insights: how to

    Learn practical skills. Design, podcasts, curation and more- dive into tips and advice put together by UAL's students and tutors.

  • Drawn illustrations of Omar, an Insights tutor and Lorraine, a student ambassador. These are cut out and set against a blue and pink background.
    Illustrations of Omar and Lorraine, UAL, 2022 | Illustrations: Hannah Balogun

    Insights: podcast  

    Omar and Lorraine talk about their creative journey and experience of studying at UAL.

3 students stand together talking in their vibrantly printed garments that they made at the Saturday Club
Urban Garden project, Insights Saturday Club, 2024 | Photograph: Aleks Faustov.

Aged 13-16 years?

Join our Saturday Clubs. Choose from 4 subject area clubs.

Work towards an exhibition of your creativity at Somerset House.

Find out more about our Saturday Clubs.

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For all the latest news and content from the Insights community

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.