CUREE are currently conducting an evaluation of STEM Learning's ENTHUSE Partnership programme. The ENTHUSE programme enables groups of schools to work collaboratively in sustainable partnerships on improving leading, teaching and learning in science or other STEM subjects. It is supported by funding, structures and support provided by STEM Learning.
Our evaluation aims to evaluate the ENTHUSE Partnerships programme against its aims, assessing its impact across successive cohorts and years since the programme's inception in 2014. We will also make recommendations for improvements to its management, delivery and effectiveness, including consideration of how to ensure that the programme and its impacts are sustainable.
The programme began in January 2017 and is due for completion in the Summer, when a final report will be published. The project is being supported by Professor Derek Bell, a CUREE associate and former Head of Education at the Welcome Trust and Chief Executive of the Association for Science Education. Derek is a specialist adviser for the project, complementing the extensive research evaluation expertise within the CUREE team, who have worked on evaluation projects such as Sing Up, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Teacher Development fund and a National evaluation of the effectiveness of 75 CPD providers featuring in the Training and Development Agency's database of CPD providers http://www.curee.co.uk/cpd-providers.