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Report | Understanding online mentoring delivered as part of multi-intervention outreach programmes

Mentoring is often delivered as part of multi-intervention outreach programmes, but it can be difficult to evaluate. This report outlines analysis conducted on two online mentoring programmes.

Mentoring, counselling, coaching
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Report | Supporting disabled students: Mapping reasonable adjustments and transition support

Exploring the implementation of transition support and reasonable adjustments for disabled students, this report examines the experiences of disabled students and higher education provider staff.

Disabled students
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Report | Student mental health in 2023: Who is struggling and how the situation is changing

Around one in six undergraduates now report experiencing mental health challenges, according to this analysis by The Policy Institute at King’s College London and TASO.

Mental health and wellbeing
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Report | Learning about evaluation with small cohorts

To help higher education providers learn about how to evaluate interventions with small sample sizes, this project involved testing evaluation approaches that are suitable for small cohorts.

Small cohortsTheory-based evaluation
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Report | Education pathways: Equality gaps in earnings and employment

Through analysis of the earnings and employment status of over a million people by education pathway, this report looks at the size of the equality gaps in labour market outcomes.

Employment and employability
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Report | The current landscape of the delivery and evaluation of student mental health interventions

With an increasing need for more support for student mental health, this report provides insights from those involved in the delivery and evaluation of current student mental health interventions.

Mental health and wellbeing
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Report | Addressing gaps in the participation of sandwich courses

Sandwich courses can help reduce equality gaps, but disadvantaged students are less likely to enrol in them – this research maps out barriers and solutions for students participating in sandwich courses.

Additional study
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Report | Facilitating analysis of institutional data: practical steps for providers

This report sets out recommendations and two new resources which will help higher education providers develop and use their institutional data more effectively when evaluating student success.

Institutional data
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Report | From vision to action: harnessing Theory of Change to tackle ethnicity degree awarding gaps

The report provides key recommendations and insights to support the sector in developing theories of change for interventions that aim to address the ethnicity degree awarding gap.

Race and ethnicity
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Report | Using learning analytics to prompt student support interventions

Learning analytics can identify students at risk of withdrawing from their studies and prompt support interventions. This report details two randomised controlled trials of these types of interventions.

Learning analytics
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Report | School’s in for the summer: interim findings on the impact of summer schools

This report sets out interim findings of a randomised controlled trial on the impact of summer schools in getting students from disadvantaged and under-represented groups to participate in higher education.

Additional studySummer schools
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Report | Piloting methods to develop better evidence on student support

To explore the effectiveness of using less commonly used evaluation methods to generate evidence, this report sets out the results of evaluations undertaken by four higher education providers.

Disabled students

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