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Caxton College admission to Imperial College again this year


This prestigious British university has admitted a Caxton College student to its Aeronautical Engineering faculty (ranked in the world’s top 7). He will join another student who was admitted last year to the Mathematics programme.

When Kirill Surkov, a recent Caxton College graduate, requested his visa to study Aeronautics in London, the British government required him to have a special certificate for study or research in certain sensitive technology-related fields. Several of his teachers from his Sixth Form studies had to declare for the Foreign Office that their former student’s intentions were good and that the knowledge he gains will be used to improve society in future. This bureaucratic procedure is common for students from abroad who wish to study this kind of degree programme in the United Kingdom.

‘In Aeronautics, the part that interests me the most is the aerial aspect, since this is a skill that humans lack. The nautical aspect doesn’t interest me as much because we can all manage to swim on our own, but we cannot fly without technical support. That’s why I’d like to concentrate on aviation and work to make aircraft an even safer method of transport and attain even higher speeds in the future’, Surkov states. This student of Russian origin, but who has lived in the Valencian Autonomous Region for the past decade, faced his first important technological challenge a few years ago: he and a friend successfully designed their own computer. This kind of achievement indicates that Surkov, a born entrepreneur, will certainly be successful in this new stage of academics despite its demands. ‘I started classes about two weeks ago, and although lectures are currently online since I am in quarantine, the courses and professors are amazing’, Surkov avows, despite not yet having been able to enjoy the campus.

For this academic year, classes at Imperial College will be mostly online, although there will be in-person tutorial sessions in groups of only five or six students. ‘The majority of the subjects I am taking are in mathematics, programming, practical engineering and 3D design. I like them because they combine the theoretical and practical aspects well. Right now I am working on an automotive project and I am really enjoying it. The course fosters work outside of class, both independent and teamwork’.

He also remembers his old school fondly, and says he is grateful because ‘I attained a high level of mathematics that allowed me to meet Imperial’s requirements, and the method of study is proving very useful to me in this new stage of learning’.

The path that led Surkov to the prestigious university, ninth in the QS World University Rankings and that has produced fourteen Nobel Prize winners, was not easy. Behind him he leaves a trail of excellence demonstrated in the interviews, essays and exams that are required for admission to Imperial College. He has shown an impeccable level of effort and dedication, as his former school is well aware. “Kirill was passionate about Maths and Physics, but he was a humble and responsable pupil. We could see that he was extremely intelligent and had an engineer’s mentality. His aim was to enter a top university and he has achieved this through his own merits’, affirms Teresa Vila, a teacher and member of the Senior Management Team in the Secondary school at Caxton College.

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