The Learner Panel

The Learner Panel was set up to provide access to people enrolled in school, further education and work-based learning to take part in online research. The Learner Panel provides a highly cost effective way of undertaking quantitative and qualitative research to hear the learner voice.

• Cost effective research
• Fast fieldwork
• 10,000 panellists
• More than 100 profiling characteristics to get the right sample
• Bonus Bond shopping vouchers for learners completing surveys
• Recruitment via tried and tested methods

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Co-funded by the Young People’s Learning Agency, Skills Funding Agency and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Learner Panel can be used by government departments and their agencies (and Market Research agencies doing research on their behalf) and organisations undertaking education research.

To date, members of the Learner Panel have given their views on a range of topic areas, including :
- Equality and diversity in learning
- Course evaluations
- Ofsted inspections
- Attitudes to studying science subjects
- Impact of tuition fees on entering Higher Education
- Opinions on proposed Lifelong Learning Accounts
- Experiences of the apprenticeship scheme
- Improving links between colleges and the local community