Our Services
Purpose Built
Online Programs
The internationally acclaimed Milestone Institute’s 1174 students received over 2200 offers from the world’s 100 universities in the past 12 years. You may wonder why. Because in each 10-week term they participated in a highly complex educational program with academic, advising, orientation and mentoring components called the Milestone method! We adapted the program and the Milestone method for online teaching and now it is available for educational institutions working with students in secondary education who wish to offer further outstanding academic solutions adapted to their goals and needs.
Program features
Goal-oriented and Intensive
- Focused work towards clearly articulated educational goals
- Choice among three different pathways
Immersion with disciplinary and academic achievement focus - University application and orientation amongst disciplines, subjects and university destinations
- 10-week Sprints including academic tutorials, 1-to-1 mentoring and advising
Exceptional in-depth super-curricular teaching
- Over 12 years’ experience of curriculum design, academic module teaching, mentoring and advising
- Education specifically adapted for 14-18 year olds
- Access to Milestone’s best practices, guides and resources
- Support from highly experienced and successful Milestone mentors and Core Staff
Tailored for international online teaching
- Milestone knowhow tailored for distance learning (e.g. online learning platform, digital curriculum)
- An ideal mix of online taught group tutorial modules, 1-to-1 advising and mentoring
- Fitted to different secondary educational backgrounds
Pathway and
curriculum examples
Goal of the pathway:
- Deepening the academic knowledge of a specific field
- Creating a particular academic achievement project to enhance application profile
- Diagnostic and strategic planning of academic and skill development for successful university application profile
Length:
10 weeks
Focus: (adaptable based on request)
Environment and Social Sciences
Tutorials: (examples)
- Development Studies
- Future Cities
- Modelling the Climate
Advising:
2 Advising sessions:
- focusing on an overarching diagnostic report about that student’s starting profile, abilities and potential, and a
- second the academic development of the student and how this can be converted to university applications.
Mentoring:
8 mentoring sessions:
Targeting a particular academic achievement project in the areas of environment and social sciences like the International Geography Olympiad, Oxbridge Essay Competitions, conducting an original research project and publication in student journals.
Goal of the pathway:
- University and course choice advising
- Personal statements, essays, writing supplements
- Interview and test preparation strategies
Length:
10 weeks
Focus:
(adaptable based on request)
Life Sciences – Oxbridge Preparation
Tutorials: (examples)
- Life Sciences Tutorial
- Biology of the Cell
- Neuroscience
Advising:
3 Advising sessions:
- focusing on an overarching diagnostic report about that student’s starting profile, abilities and potential, and a
- second the academic development of the student and advice on course and college choice and a
- third on application oversight and quality.
Mentoring:
10 mentoring sessions:
Focusing on test preparation, interview readiness and submitted materials (reference and personal statement).
Goal of the pathway:
- Exploration of intellectual interests and passions
- Alignment of your strengths and ambitions
- Career advising
Length:
10 weeks
Focus: (adaptable based on request)
Social Sciences and Humanities
Tutorials: (examples)
- The Body
- Poverty
- Manipulation
Advising:
5 Advising sessions:
Focusing on developing an overarching diagnostic
report about the student’s interests and strengths, abilities and
potential, and testing the hypothesis set up about best fit pathways
through custom tasks that accompany the given modules.
Academic Immersion
University application
Disciplinary Orientation
Goal of the pathway
- Deepening the academic knowledge of a specific field
- Creating a particular academic achievement project to enhance application profile
- Diagnostic and strategic planning of academic and skill development for successful university application profile
- University and course choice advising
- Personal statements, essays, writing supplements
- Interview and test preparation strategies
- Exploration of intellectual interests and passions
- Alignment of your strengths and ambitions
- Career advising
Length
10 weeks
10 weeks
10 weeks
Focus
(adaptable based on request)
Environment and Social Sciences
Life Sciences – Oxbridge Preparation
Social Sciences and Humanities
Tutorials
(examples)
- Development Studies
- Future Cities
- Modelling the Climate
- Life Sciences Tutorial
- Biology of the Cell
- Neuroscience
- The Body
- Poverty
- Manipulation
Advising
2 Advising sessions:
- focusing on an overarching diagnostic report about that student’s starting profile, abilities and potential, and a
- second the academic development of the student and how this can be converted to university applications.
3 Advising sessions:
- focusing on an overarching diagnostic report about that student’s starting profile, abilities and potential, and a
- second the academic development of the student and advice on course and college choice and a
- third on application oversight and quality.
5 Advising sessions:
Focusing on developing an overarching diagnostic
report about the student’s interests and strengths, abilities and
potential, and testing the hypothesis set up about best fit pathways
through custom tasks that accompany the given modules.
Mentoring
8 mentoring sessions:
Targeting a particular academic achievement project in the areas of environment and social sciences like the International Geography Olympiad, Oxbridge Essay Competitions, conducting an original research project and publication in student journals.
10 mentoring sessions:
Focusing on test preparation, interview readiness and submitted materials (reference and personal statement).
We offer the Purpose built online programs for traditional or non-traditional educational institutions working with students in secondary education who whish to provide their students with outstanding academic solutions, which can be adapted and developed to their students’ educational needs and requirements.
If you would like to learn more about how the Milestone Institute’s services could be of benefit to you, contact us.