Request for proposals: 16 – 19 sector survey

The EEF is seeking a research organisation to establish and deliver an online baseline survey of leaders working in 16 – 19 education providers across England, to potentially be repeated annually.

The work will establish a representative sample of leaders from further education colleges, independent training providers, sixth form colleges, and school sixth forms. We aim to create a sustainable methodology for annual repetition.

The survey will take further education leaders around five minutes. It will ask them about their use of evidence-based resources and key challenges they are facing. (The EEF already asks a similar set of questions to school teachers and leaders.)

Research teams with experience of conducting experimental studies in education, with a strong grounding in the theory of learning, and ideally also AI in education, are invited to submit expressions of interest (EOIs).

We are interested in EOIs from single research teams and/​or consortia with complementary expertise and where the consortium can demonstrate that they will work well together to ensure the quality and efficiency of the project. This call for EOIs is open; researchers do not need to be part of EEF’s panel of evaluators.

Please note that we accept applications only from legally constituted organisations, not from individuals. The organisation does not have to be based in England, but if not based in England, we would expect the team to demonstrate the knowledge required to complete this work.