News and blog

TASO CEO Dr Omar Khan shares his thoughts on a busy year at TASO, and discusses opportunities for 2024.

Dr Mandy Crow and Jared Patel from Loughborough University discuss the five things they have learned from their involvement on TASO’s project to develop theories of change and evaluation plans for interventions addressing the ethnicity degree awarding gap.

TASO is partnering with RSM UK to develop guidance and tools to support the sector to better understand and conduct economic evaluation.

TASO is partnering with Nottingham Trent University (NTU) to develop guidance and tools to support the sector to better understand and conduct Implementation and Process Evaluation (IPE).

Luke Arundel, Research Officer at TASO discusses a new tool to help you create more impactful charts: The TASO data visualisation style guide.

As part of our Voice of the Sector blog series, Dr Shaun Boustani, Research Fellow of Medical Education at University College London – and TASO Sector Network member – discusses how anxiety in those from disadvantaged backgrounds can impact exam performance

TASO is partnering with the University of East Anglia, the University of Huddersfield, Lancaster University, and Nottingham Trent University to harness the power of institutional data to evaluate post-entry student support interventions

As part of our ‘Ethnicity degree awarding gap’ project, our new blog series presents views from our partners about their experiences, thoughts and aims for the project partnership.

As part of the ‘Impact evaluation with small cohorts’ project, we published guidance on eight evaluation methodologies suitable for use with small cohorts. Project teams from higher education providers tested four of these evaluation methodologies. 

In October 2023, the Office for Students published the latest evaluation of Uni Connect, the national network that helps young people from underrepresented groups access higher education.

TASO has commissioned three higher education partners, the University of Bath, the University of Birmingham and City College Norwich to work with an evaluator, RSM UK Ltd, to develop an intervention blueprint to support disabled students’ transition to higher education.

New report highlights interim findings on the impact of summer schools in getting more students from disadvantaged and underrepresented groups to participate in higher education