The Higher Education Outreach Network (HEON) is a partnership of local organisations including universities and colleges working in Surrey and North East Hampshire. Through both a programme of targeted outreach and the Outreach Hub, they aim to increase the rates of young people from local areas accessing higher education.
HEON is 1 of the 29 partnerships that make up the Uni Connect Programme across the country and work towards the government’s aim of supporting a rapid increase in the number of young people from under-represented groups who go into higher education.
Working with their partner organisations, HEON delivers outreach to local young people in Years 9 – 13. They offer impartial advice and information on higher education and progression routes, campus tours, subject tasters, mentoring and residential summer schools to name a few initiatives.