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Project | Approaches to addressing the ethnicity degree awarding gap

9 June 2023

A project to develop a typology and narrative of current approaches to address the ethnicity degree awarding gap.

Race and ethnicity
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Resources | Approaches to addressing the ethnicity degree awarding gap

These resources were developed as part of the project: ‘Approaches to addressing the ethnicity degree awarding gap‘

Race and ethnicity
Report

Report

Report | Approaches to addressing the ethnicity degree awarding gap

The higher education sector has committed to tackling the ethnicity degree awarding gap; this report sets out findings from research on the different approaches being undertaken to reduce the gap.

Race and ethnicity
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Report

Report | Evaluating multi-intervention outreach and mentoring programmes

Partnering with three higher education providers, this report explores the impact of multi-intervention outreach and mentoring programmes, and the different ways these programmes can be evaluated.

Mentoring, counselling, coaching
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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
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Completed project

Project | Theories of change for attainment-raising initiatives

13 April 2023

To help higher education providers do more to raise the academic attainment of school students, this project involved the development of six theories of change for pre-16 attainment-raising initiatives.

Attainment raising
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Report

Report | Online teaching and learning in the time of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of online teaching and learning in higher education. This research explored the impact of this on student outcomes, focusing on disadvantaged students.

Online learning
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Report

Report | The relationship between teaching and assessment methods and student outcomes during COVID-19

This report sets out the results of a data analysis project to investigate the effect of teaching and learning changes during the COVID-19 pandemic on outcomes for disadvantaged students.
Report

Report

Report | What works to reduce equality gaps for disabled students

A summary of an evidence review by the University of Lincoln, this report outlines the evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to address inequalities in higher education among disabled students.

Disabled students
Completed project

Completed project

Project | Learning analytics

31 January 2023

Interventions that are prompted by data from university infrastructure systems are believed to be effective in improving engagement. This project aims to build a strong evidence base for these interventions.

Learning analytics
Completed project

Completed project

Project | The impact of curriculum reform on the ethnicity degree awarding gap

23 November 2022

We worked with two universities to establish whether reforming the curriculum to make it more diverse would reduce the ethnicity degree awarding gap

Race and ethnicity
Report

Report

Report | The impact of curriculum reform on the ethnicity degree awarding gap

A report summarising the evaluation of two curriculum reform interventions that aimed to narrow the degree awarding gap between Black, Asian and minority ethnic students and their white peers.

Race and ethnicity

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