SIX Ulverston Victoria High School students have received offers for Oxford and Cambridge Universities after the application, examination and interview process. 

This follows the high school's best-ever set of A Level results last summer, with 89 per cent of students securing their first-choice places at university and complete success with degree apprenticeship applications.

The bright students who will be going to the top universities are as follows: 

  • Michael Walmsley: Worcester College Oxford - Medicine
  • Anna Lapegue: Worcester College Oxford - Music
  • Chris Brayshaw: Lincoln College Oxford - Mathematics
  • Matthew Paule: Mansfield College Oxford - Mathematics
  • Dan Low:  St John's College Cambridge - Economics
  • Eddie Lewis: Clare College Cambridge - Natural Sciences

Assistant headteacher and director of Sixth Form Studies Rob Rastelli said: "We are immensely proud of all of our sixth form students and their achievements – both inside and outside the classroom.  However, these six students have successfully ‘taken the baton’ from last year’s cohort, and those every year beforehand, by continuing UVHS’s strong tradition of students going to arguably the two most famous universities in the world, and the most difficult to get offers from.

"The application process for both institutions is long, rigorous, demanding and extremely stressful, but for six Furness teenagers to be offered places is quite simply outstanding.  We all wish them the very best of luck with their forthcoming A Levels.”

To attend Oxford and Cambridge, beyond achieving the highest A and A* grades at A-Levels, students must go through an additional assessment process in the autumn, followed by a rigorous interview around Christmas to receive an offer. 

It is not the first year Ulverston Victoria High School has seen its students receive a flurry of offers from the UK's top universities. 

In 2022, another six students received Oxbridge offers.