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Resources | What works to reduce equality gaps in employment and employability?

This project explored how education providers can improve labour market outcomes for graduates from disadvantaged groups and address gaps in the participation in sandwich courses.

Employment and employability
Report

Report

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
Completed project

Completed project

Project | Education pathways: Equality gaps in earnings and employment

16 July 2024

To better understand the various benefits of higher education, this project examined the link between educational qualifications and earnings and employment, in particular for disadvantaged young people.

Employment and employability
Completed project

Completed project

Project | Piloting methods to develop better evidence on student support

9 November 2023

A project exploring what works reduce equality gaps for disabled students in higher education, and how to improve employment and employability outcomes.

Disabled studentsEmployment and employability
Report

Report

Report | The value of higher education

This report explores the evidence on the value of higher education, and specifically the individual and societal impacts of disadvantaged young people graduating from higher education courses.

Employment and employability
Report

Report

Report | What works to reduce equality gaps in employment and employability?

This report explores the existing evidence of what works to reduce employment and employability inequalities, and where gaps lie in existing research.

Employment and employability
Completed project

Completed project

Project | What works to reduce equality gaps in employment and employability?

21 April 2022

This project explored how education providers can improve labour market outcomes for graduates from disadvantaged groups and address gaps in the participation in sandwich courses.

Employment and employability
Completed project

Completed project

Project | Economic value of higher education

17 February 2022

To better understand the various benefits of higher education, this research examined the individual and societal impacts of disadvantaged young people graduating from higher education courses.

Employment and employability
Report

Report

Report | Understanding the impact of interventions to address inequality in the student experience

A review of the evidence for interventions that higher education providers might use to reduce inequality gaps in the student experience.

Employment and employabilityMental health and wellbeingAttainment raising

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