Researchers

Professor Colin McCaig, Ravinder Ubhi-Adams

Partner organisations: 

University of the West of England, University of Bedfordshire, University of Oxford, King's College London

Project date

2015-2016

Helping to track the value and usefulness of HE student financial support

For this initiative, data management staff at six universities worked to identify data fields that enabled them to better identify recipients of bursaries and scholarships so that institutions can better track their effectiveness.

The project involved the development and piloting of data gathering and student survey tools that can be used across the HE sector in order to discover the value and usefulness of financial support.

These tools were recommended for use by OFFA and around 100 HE institutions currently use them to evaluate the effectiveness of their financial support.

Funder

OFFA - Office for Fair Access

Documents

Final project report for Office of Fair Access - December 2016

McCaig, C. and Harrison, N. (2017) Examining the epistemology of impact and success of educational interventions using a reflective case study of university bursaries, British Educational Research Journal, Volume 43 No.2 pp.290-310.