As part of the Government’s National Scholarship Programme (NSP), HEFCE commissioned CFE consultants and the Widening Participation Centre at Edge Hill University to carry out a formative evaluation of the scheme. This report summarises the outcomes of evaluation activity undertaken in 2013-14, the second year of the programme’s operation. It contains the results of surveys, focus groups and interviews with participating institutions and recipients as well as summarising the programme’s emerging themes and impacts. Read More