Welcome to LEAPS

At the Lothians Equal Access Programme for Schools (LEAPS) we aim to support talented young people in Edinburgh and the Lothians, providing them with information and encouragement to apply to higher education. We work with all 46 state secondary schools in the region, targeting young people with little or no family experience of higher education or those who may have experienced adverse social and/or economic circumstances.

From November 2008 we expanded our work into the Scottish Borders. We will work with all 9 state secondary schools in a similar way to the work we do in Edinburgh and the Lothains.

We deliver a range of school and campus-based events from S2 to S6-level, as well as the LEAPS Summer School, an 8-week pre-university programme taught across the higher education institutions in Edinburgh. We also aim to work with parents and advisers of young people, providing information relating to all aspects of university life.

You can see an overview of all our school and campus-based activities in this leaflet.