CAQA Research Part of the CAQA group

Research

Evidence for decisions that are usually made without any.

We run the studies the sector keeps citing but nobody funds: completion and outcome analysis, workforce capability, and what actually changes when a standard changes.

IWhat we do

Three things, done properly.

i

Outcome studies

What actually happens to learners after completion, tracked rather than assumed.

ii

Workforce research

Who is teaching, what they hold, and where the capability gaps in the sector actually sit.

iii

Policy impact

What changes on the ground when a standard changes, measured after the fact rather than predicted before it.

IIWhat goes wrong

The two failures we see most.

We publish these because most of the value in hiring anyone is knowing which mistakes are common, and that knowledge is not worth hiding.

Citing the same decade old figure

A striking statistic gets repeated until it is folklore. Much sector commentary rests on numbers nobody has re checked since they were published.

Surveying only the reachable

Providers who answer surveys are systematically different from providers who do not, and the gap is exactly where the interesting findings hide.

IIIHow we work

We tell you what we find.

Including when the answer is that you do not need what you came to ask for. Anyone who never says that is not giving you information, they are giving you an invoice.

Scope

Where something needs a legal opinion, a financial audit or a clinical judgement, we will say so and stop rather than improvise past the edge of what we do.

Start a conversation.

Tell us the situation rather than the service you think you need. We would rather start from your problem.