Teaching and Learning Research Programme - Widening Participation

TLRP Press Release

The TLRP (www.tlrp.org) is the UK's biggest-ever research programme on education at all phases of life and is the biggest research programme managed by the Economic and Social Research Council. Its budget is some £38 million from 2000 to 2011.

The ESRC is the UK's largest funding agency for research and postgraduate training relating to social and economic issues. It provides independent, high quality, relevant research to business, the public sector and Government. The ESRC invests more than £123million every year in social science and at any time is supporting some 2,000 researchers in academic institutions and research policy institutes. It also funds postgraduate training within the social sciences to nurture the researchers of tomorrow. More at http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk