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Meet The Team | Project Access | UK

Give an Hour, Grow With It: How Mentoring Adds up to More Than a Degree

When you picture university life, mentoring might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But giving an hour a week to help someone through a hard process turns out to be one of...

Admissions | Application | Project Access

Dismantling the First-Gen University Gap

Around the world, students sit at their desks, working late into the night and studying for exams. They motivate themselves with a simple message: "If you just work hard enough, you will get in." This...

Admissions | Application | Project Access

The Application Trap: Why Record Numbers Are Only Half the Battle

More higher education applications are coming from England’s poorest areas than ever before. This is a milestone worth celebrating. It shows the message is finally getting through: higher education is for everyone. But if we...

Meet The Team | Project Access | UK

5 Questions with Beni Mautner

Meet Beni, the Global Director of Technology at Project Access! Beni is the Global Director of Technology at Project Access. He came on board as an Engineer about two years ago and handled most of...

Ivy League | Meet The Team | Project Access

5 Questions with Nilay Ersoy

Meet Nilay, the former Head of Country Operations! Nilay Ersoy is a student at Harvard University, double majoring in Government (Data Science) and Economics. She currently was working as the Global Director of Country Operations...

Meet The Team | Project Access | UK

5 Questions with Dina Pöllänen

Meet Dina, the Head of Project Access Team Finland! She’s currently studying Biochemistry at Imperial college London and joined Project Access after attending Team Finland’s Bootcamp in 2022. Dina started as an outreach officer before...

Admissions | Application | Meet The Team | Project Access

Meet the Team: “Hard Work Can Take You to New Heights”

Meet Iris: Our Global Director of Programs and a Finnish-American competitive climber who once told her local CVS cashier she’d make the Olympics. Now at Harvard, she shares how the same grit that took her...

Award | Education | Press Release | Project Access

Project Access Wins International University Access Organisation of the Year Award

Project Access has been named International University Access Organisation of the Year 2024 and received the UK Excellence in Social Mobility Award for its work supporting underrepresented students. With over 5,000 mentees across 140+ countries,...

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