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4 July 2022
Summary Report: What works to reduce equality gaps in employment and employability?

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

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- Progression to employment
- Skills development
- Post-entry to HE
4 July 2022
Report: What works to reduce equality gaps in employment and employability?

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

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- Progression to employment
- Skills development
- Post-entry to HE
29 June 2022
Report: The Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ Students

This report explores the subjective wellbeing of LGBTQ+ students based on the analysis of data from the Student Academic Experiences Survey.

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- Belonging in HE (post-entry)
- Wellbeing
- Post-entry to HE
17 June 2022
Impact Evaluation With Small Cohorts: Methodology Guidance

This guidance is designed for impact evaluation that can be used with small cohorts.

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- Post-entry to HE
17 June 2022
Typology of attainment-raising activities conducted by HEPs: Rapid Evidence Review

This is a rapid-evidence review on interventions and activities carried out by higher education providers (HEPs) to raise the attainment of school-age students.

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- Attainment raising (pre-entry)
17 May 2022
Summary report: What works to tackle mental health inequalities in higher education?

This report explores the factors affecting student mental health in higher education (HE) and provides an analysis of the interventions used to support them.

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- Post-entry to HE
17 May 2022
What works to tackle mental health inequalities in higher education?

This report explores the factors affecting student mental health in higher education (HE) and provides an analysis of the interventions used to support them.

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- Post-entry to HE
21 April 2021
Evidence review: Supporting access and student success for mature learners

This review was designed to understand evidence around supporting HE access and student success for mature learners, with a view to informing future research on this topic.

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- Belonging in HE (pre-entry)
- Progression to HE
- Pre-entry to HE
- Post-entry to HE
- Mature learners
21 April 2021
Summary report: Supporting access and student success for mature learners

This report covers the output of two activities: A review of the existing evidence on effective approaches to supporting mature learners access to HE and a survey experiment on which institutional features are attractive to mature learners.

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- Belonging in HE (post-entry)
- Progression to HE
- Pre-entry to HE
- Mature learners
31 March 2021
An investigation into the relationship between outreach participation and KS4 attainment / HE progression

An analysis of the Higher Education Access Tracking (HEAT) Service’s dataset on the relationship between Key Stage 4 attainment and higher education progression.

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- Attainment raising (pre-entry)
- Progression to ‘high tariff’ institution
- Progression to HE
- Pre-entry to HE

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

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

Report: The Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ Students

Impact Evaluation With Small Cohorts: Methodology Guidance

Typology of attainment-raising activities conducted by HEPs: Rapid Evidence Review

Summary report: What works to tackle mental health inequalities in higher education?

What works to tackle mental health inequalities in higher education?

Evidence review: Supporting access and student success for mature learners

Summary report: Supporting access and student success for mature learners

An investigation into the relationship between outreach participation and KS4 attainment / HE progression