Moving on up
University campuses may have emptied out but, here at Grit, we’ve been busy working with our university partners on workshops for Year 9s through to Year 13s on the transition to university, and on raising aspirations and expectations around HE.
There have been our Myth-Busting workshops for offer-holders at York University; working with white working-class boys in South Yorkshire through the University of Sheffield; with young Black Leaders in Southampton schools alongside Solent University; with Students of Colour from schools in Liverpool together with Edge Hill University; and teachers from the University of Portsmouth network of schools.
It's been such a joy! As one young person told us, “I’ll be the first one in my family to go to university. I’m going to make them all really proud.”
Get some attitude
Attitude-Ready Students: Imposters, Myth and Reality.
How we can support students to be attitude-ready before they fully launch themselves on their university journey? Read our most recent post on HE Professional, published earlier this month.
A new you on the other side
“Transformative … one of the best programmes I’ve ever taken part in.”
Take a look at our latest film where two students from the University of Manchester describe their experience of our Black Leaders' Programme.
And check out this post on LinkedIn, where one of the lecturers vividly describes the impact on one student in particular.
For more on our work with Black students and Students of Colour, click here.
Just three words
We recently went back to youth professionals in local authorities, and staff in schools and universities who had taken part in a Grit programme at some stage between September 2023 and February 2024.
We had a whopping 36% of staff responding to our survey, with 95% telling us that they continue to get better results in their day-to-day work with young people and students. 88% have more confidence in their role as a professional and 87% of university staff alone describe being better able to find new approaches and solutions to issues since taking part in the Grit programme.
And we asked staff to give us three words that best described their Grit experience. This is what they told us.
