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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 employabilityProgression out of higher education
Find out more about our blueprint for multi-intervention transition support. The blueprint provides a set of evidence-informed activities and programmes to enhance disabled students’ transition into higher education.
By mapping the kinds of transition support and reasonable adjustments used in higher education, this project increased understanding of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions
In 2023-24, we commissioned Staffordshire University and Advance HE to produce theories of change and evaluation plans for interventions designed to address the ethnicity degree awarding gap.
In 2023-24, we commissioned Staffordshire University and Advance HE to produce theories of change and evaluation plans for interventions designed to address the ethnicity degree awarding gap.
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.
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.
Higher education providers face challenges when evaluating interventions that have small sample sizes. This project involved the piloting of evaluation methodologies that are suitable for small cohorts.
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.
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 employabilitySuccess in higher education
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.