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TASO is inviting applications from higher education providers for the evaluation of interventions designed to support student success and narrow equality gaps. 

Fill out the application form and read the guidance for the Open call: Evaluations of interventions designed to support student success (TASO/38)

Michael Sanders, TASO’s Academic Lead and Professor of Public Policy at King’s College London, and Dimitris Vallis, Research Associate at King’s College London, explore the often-overlooked intra-cluster correlation (ICC) and its impact on trial design. Their latest paper provides practical insights to help researchers move from intuition-driven studies to a more systematic, efficient approach.

The library, funded by Office for Students, will be developed by HEAT in collaboration with TASO.

TASO will soon be inviting applications from higher education providers for the evaluation of interventions designed to support student success and narrow equality gaps.

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Advisory Group will provide insight and advice on TASO’s research and evaluation activities. 

Applications are open for an open call inviting higher education providers to collaborate on developing a theory of change for their whole provider approach to reducing risks to equality of opportunity in higher education.

Dr Omar Khan, CEO at TASO, reflects on the findings of Social Market Foundation’s report on how to support care-experienced and estranged students to succeed in higher education, and discusses the role TASO could take in ensuring this group receives effective support.

Redeveloped website includes enhanced filtering to make it easier for higher education providers to find the evidence and resources they need.

TASO partners with the Policy Institute at King’s College London and three universities to run randomised controlled trials on the impact of wellbeing interventions prompted by analytics.

TASO, Bath Social & Development Research, Tharani Learning and Research and two universities will work together to explore the impact of mental health and wellbeing interventions.

Omar Khan, CEO at TASO, discusses the launch of the Higher Education Evaluation Library (HEEL) and its potential to support enhanced evaluation practices and collaborative learning across the sector.