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Additional Benefits of Youth Leadership

Our Youth Leadership programme helps students build confidence, communication, and teamwork while exploring what it means to be an effective, compassionate leader. Through team challenges, goal-setting, and public speaking, you’ll gain practical skills to inspire self-belief and positive impact, all within a supportive international community at St Andrews, Cambridge, or Yale.

Additional Benefits of Youth Leadership

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  • Take part in fun team tasks designed to improve communication: Engaging group activities will help you practise effective communication within a team setting.


  • Build leadership and interpersonal skills: Through practical exercises and feedback, you'll develop the skills to lead and interact effectively with others.


  • Develop your communication, teamwork, and self-confidence: Activities are designed to boost your confidence and enhance your ability to work well in a team.


  • Understand how to express yourself effectively in a team: You'll learn strategies for sharing your ideas and perspectives clearly within a group dynamic.


  • Develop goal-setting skills: You'll gain the tools and techniques to define clear, achievable goals and create plans to reach them.


  • Improve emotional intelligence: The programme will help you understand and manage your own emotions, as well as empathise with and understand others.


  • Learn how leadership can have a positive impact on the world: You'll explore leadership for positive change and making a difference in the lives of others.


  • Improve public speaking skills and learn to overcome self-limiting beliefs: You'll receive guidance and practise in public speaking, while also learning techniques to challenge and overcome negative thoughts that hold you back.


  • Promotes kindness and support: Explore leadership in a supportive environment where you'll learn the importance of empathy and compassion in leadership.


  • Highly qualified and experienced teachers: Our teachers are highly qualified and passionate about helping students develop new skills. We also focus on finding teachers with real life, working expertise in their subject areas.


  • Engaged community of students from over 80 nationalities: You’ll learn in an environment where everyone shares and learns from different perspectives, inspiring and challenging each other to grow.


  • Balanced programme to educate hearts and minds: Academics and Electives are paired, helping students explore other interests, have fun and experience a balanced education.


  • Ideal 3-week programme length: Three weeks gives students time to make real progress in their learning, build confidence, and form lasting friendships.


  • Inspiring surroundings in world-renowned universities: The prestigious surroundings of St Andrews, Cambridge and Yale offer a unique learning environment that has inspired many great minds throughout history.

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How it works

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We offer an all-inclusive 3-week residential stay at one of our exclusive University locations for students between the ages of 13 - 18

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Students choose one Academic and one Elective option from the progamme.

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Everyone takes part in exciting activities, evening programmes and cultural trips

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Each nationality is limited to 10% of the total intake of students to ensure a truly international experience.

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