Evaluation Reports

Silver Arts Award Summer School Report

The Silver Arts Award summer school sought to re-engage with Year 9 to Year 11 students to provide them further exposure to a university environment to raise aspirations and reinforce self-belief in them achieving their future possible selves.

FEC Outreach Programme 2023

An evaluation of the impact of the Kent and Medway Further Education College (FEC) Outreach Programme in 2023. The evaluation was conducted via analysis of via three surveys: Student exit survey, Student exit survey and matched baseline responses, and a Staff survey.

Championing Boys – Express Myself Project Report 2024

The Championing Boys - Express Myself initiative, led by the University of Kent's Outreach and Widening Participation team, builds on the success of its Year 7 programme by introducing a Year 8 module combining creative writing and artificial intelligence (AI).

Championing Boys Project Report 2023

The University of Kent Outreach and Widening Participation department piloted ‘Championing Boys: Exploring Who You Could Be’ in the Spring of 2023. This intervention worked with Year 7 boys from low socio-economic background status groups in two schools within the same Multi-Academy Trust (MAT).

Arguing With Confidence 2023-24

This debate-oriented programme was piloted in four schools across Kent and Medway in the 2023/24 academic year. The programme, run by the University of Kent, aimed to develop oracy and literacy skills, including tactical debating, to help raise attainment in English lessons and improve final GCSE results.

Change Makers Programme 2023-24

The Change Makers programme was developed to support the OfS’s strategic commitment to raising attainment for pupils from underrepresented groups and increasing the capacity and capability of these pupils to access and succeed in Higher Education (HE).

KMPF Careers in Sport Project Report 2022

In partnership with Kent and Medway Progression Federation (KMPF), Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) delivered a series of workshops aimed at introducing young people to a variety of career opportunities in sport. The 2022 project evaluation report can be downloaded here.

UCA ‘Thrive Youth Conference’ 2022 – Evaluation Report

UCA's Thrive Youth Conference aimed to enable young people to find out more about the vast range of sectors that rely on creative subjects to thrive and give young people the opportunity to make informed decisions about their future.

TASO Blog – What we learnt from taking part in TASO’s Summer School Evaluation

This blog from Amy Burt (Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, University of Kent) looks at the experience of virtual summer schools (first published on TASO’s News & Blog webpage in July 2022) - https://taso.org.uk/news-item/what-we-learnt-from-taking-part-in-tasos-summer-school-evaluation/

Canterbury Christ Church University Inspiring Minds Impact Evaluation

This report follows a quasi-experimental evaluation design to evaluate the impact of participating in CCCU’s Inspiring Minds Year 10 STEM activity. The analysis draws on data supplied as part of the HEAT Track to examine the impact of participation on Key Stage 4 exam attainment.

National Literacy Trust Words for Your Future Evaluation Report

Words for Your Future is a bespoke programme that brings higher education into the classroom to unlock students' literacy skills and raise aspirations.

The programme targets Year 9 students who have the ability to achieve the grades to secure a place at university, but may lack the confidence and literacy skills to do so.

UCA Schools Connect Summary Report – May 2022

Working with target schools and young people from the EKCEP region, the Schools Connect programme was developed to support the core vision of the EKCEP: working collaboratively ‘to change lives and broaden horizons so that every child and young person in East Kent can enjoy and have access to the arts and culture’.

KaMCOP Sector Insight Mentoring 2021-22 Evaluation Report

This report evaluates the engagement, quality, and impact of the five Sector Insight online mentoring programmes delivered by Brightside in partnership with the Kent and Medway Collaborative Outreach Programme (KaMCOP) Uni Connect team based at the University of Greenwich between October 2021 to June 2022.