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The NEURO Pathway

Bridging education and employment, turning transition into opportunity.

The Pathway is our progression framework, designed to connect secondary education, higher education, and employment into a single, coherent pipeline. It operates both vertically, across life stages, and horizontally, across the institutions and employers that influence opportunity and success.

Its purpose is simple: to ensure that neurodivergent learners are not lost between systems, and that schools, universities, employers, and community partners work together around shared outcomes.

Rather than accepting fragmentation, the Pathway creates stronger alignment between education and employment so that aspiration, access, and long-term success are supported in practice.

The NEURO Pathway: Schools to University to Employment

NEURO builds progression routes across education and into work. Through the NEURO Pathway, universities can connect to partner schools, employers, and community organisations to create a continuous pipeline from secondary education through higher education into neuroinclusive employment.

Crucially, this work can be structured to produce robust institutional evidence (participation, progression, belonging, retention, and destinations), suitable for internal reporting, external impact narratives, and publishable evaluation where appropriate.

A current example is our partnership in Tower Hamlets, working with youth leadership and local infrastructure to engage 30 schools through a student-led model. This creates a practical route for universities to connect upstream into schools, support widening participation and aspiration, and develop authentic community impact initiatives that can be evaluated and scaled.

Through the Pathway, universities can also connect to:

Workplace partners, enabling placements, insights, and neuroinclusive employability pathways.
Community and public service contexts, strengthening civic engagement and impact.
Student-led engagement models that build leadership capability and durable local presence.

This is a direct route to improved student outcomes, stronger external engagement, and visible societal contribution.

How the Pathway Works

The value of the Pathway lies in coordination. Too often, each institution focuses only on its own part of the journey, with limited visibility of what comes before or after. The Pathway creates a more joined-up model in which planning, preparation, and support can be considered across the whole progression route rather than at isolated moments. This makes it easier to identify where friction occurs, where capability needs to be built, and where stronger partnerships can improve outcomes.

The result is a more reliable progression model for everyone involved. Educational institutions can demonstrate stronger transition support and more meaningful destination outcomes. Employers can engage earlier with emerging talent and reduce the risk of poor fit, avoidable attrition, or under-supported entry into work. Most importantly, neurodivergent individuals are less likely to be left navigating disconnected systems alone, and more likely to experience a pathway that is intentional, visible, and built to support long-term success.

Who the Pathway is for

Get Involved

Organisations of all types can join the NEURO Pathway through pilot programmes, regional partnerships, or strategic collaborations.