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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

Research with graduates of low-returns subjects

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£59k
Awarded27 Sept 2018
Published19 Mar 2021
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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£59ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£561k

This sits in the lower-middle of the Research & Development band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Expressions of interest are sought for a research project focusing on graduates of 'low earnings return' subjects.

Recent analysis, commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE), confirmed that graduates of some subjects (such as creative arts) have significantly lower than average earnings returns from Higher Education (HE).

However, such subjects may provide students and society with other types of return.

It is these 'low earning return' graduates and wider benefits that is the focus of this proposed research.

We believe that a combination of secondary analysis and qualitative research would be the most effective methodology to address our research questions, but we would welcome contractors to put forward other methodologies.

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However, such subjects may provide students

However, such subjects may provide students and society with other types of return.

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Stage
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