A Pimlico Connection tutor helps a secondary school student with her work.

This programme raises aspirations for higher education by providing students with positive role models for STEM subjects.

About Pimlico Connection

This peer-tutoring scheme has been running at Imperial since 1975 and aims to inspire students in STEM subjects, raising aspirations by providing students with positive role models for STEM subjects and higher education. Since 2020 the programme has been running online. 

The 2025-26 programme will provide online tutoring support in science or maths for students in Year 10 and 11 between January and March 2026.   

Pimlico Connection tutoring is free and all state schools can apply. If we receive more applications for tutors than we can fulfil, we will allocate places to schools with consideration of factors such as percentage of pupil premium students and proportion of students living in low participation postcodes. 

How to apply

Applications for tutors to work with your school in the Spring Term of 2026 are now open. Teachers should complete an application form to request tutors for their school.  The deadline for schools to apply is Wednesday 19 November 2026.  

Before applying, please note: tutoring sessions run outside of school hours, with students logging in from home. While we aim to minimise teacher workload, we do rely on your support to help with student selection, onboarding, and occasional follow-up for attendance.   

Key information for teachers

  • Tutors can work with between 1 and 4 students (you can select the group size).
  • Each school can have up to 4 tutors.
  • Tutors can support science or maths.  You can choose your subject.  Please note that science sessions should have either a biology, chemistry or physics as the main focus - not all tutors are equally confident across all sciences.
  • Tutoring takes place between 16:00 pm and 18:00 pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, you can select your preferred times in the form.
  • You will be put in touch with your tutors and asked to provide them with guidance on topics to cover and if possible relevant resources for planning.
  • You will be sent register of attendance each week and asked to follow up with non- attendees.

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