Students from Saltus Grammar School are in the UK visiting nine English universities.

A group of 24 students in their second-from-last year are touring Southampton, Exeter, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Warwick, Loughborough, Reading, Kingston, and Roehampton before returning to the Island on Saturday.

Jon Beard, head of the Saltus Graduate Years (SGY) programme, said: “Saltus has long had a tradition of their SGY programme visiting Canadian universities as a group but this is the first such venture to the UK.

“These are a wide variety of universities, varying in student population, type of campus, and particular strengths. The Canadian trip has proven to be an excellent way of helping students to make decisions, with their peers and their counsellors about this next big step in their education.

“The school hopes that this will prove to be of similar assistance to this group who will be applying to university in the next academic year.”

The group has been joined by three students from two other schools who heard about the trip and asked to come along.