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The role secondary schools play in raising student aspirations for, and encouraging progression into, Higher Education through supported outreach is important but often overlooked by both colleges and universities alike. This article reports on our work within Uni Connect’s ‘Raising Higher Education Aspirations’ programme in Lincolnshire which delivers targeted university-inspiring transitional outreach activities to Year 9–13 students from disadvantaged backgrounds with low levels of social and cultural capital, little or no familial habitus of Higher Education and where Higher Education participation is lower than expected. Specifically, this article considers university-inspiring transitional outreach from the perspective of six secondary school Uni Connect programme leads. Semi-structured interviews conducted with school leads over a 12-month period between October 2019 and November 2020 provided a unique insight into the successes and challenges schools face in delivering aspirational Higher Education outreach. In particular, the study found that the Uni Connect programme was beginning to have a positive effect on students, with some school leads reporting a cultural shift amongst students in their attitudes towards Higher Education. Students were reported to be more open to the possibility of going to university, more willing to explore the different pathways available to them and more prepared to take part in next steps conversations. Key to the programmes’ success was the relationship between school leads and the local partnership responsible for delivering the programme. However, continued and timely delivery of outreach, especially to Year 10 and 11 students, was viewed as the biggest challenge during the ongoing Covid-19 climate.

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Teachers’ perspectives on the delivery of transitional outreach activities and their potential to raise secondary school students’ Higher Education aspirations during the Covid-19 pandemic