Trial Funding
& Registration
Register your interest for the upcoming research trials and find out more about the associated funding.
This page will be regularly updated with the latest trials and funding information.
Funding Overview
Local Areas or Providers that sign up to a Multiply Education Research Trial are eligible to receive funding based on the number of learners and the number of additional guided learning hours per trial.
By taking part, Local Areas or Providers will be randomly allocated to a treatment (delivering something new) or control (business as usual) group. If you are in the treatment group, it will be an opportunity to deliver something innovative that has potential to improve results for learners. If you are in the control group, you will continue to deliver your business-as-usual curriculum. Both groups are vital to the research and you will receive payment for being involved.
Family Numeracy Programme Funding
What could you get for participating?
Family Learning Providers receive:
- A £1000 up front payment for all participating Family Learning providers (control & treatment group).
- A 10% admin premium, based on the total number of learners participating in the trial
- You can claim 12 additional guided learning hours per learner
- Intervention costs will be paid at £7.20 per hour based on the AEB 24/25 funding rate plus area and disadvantaged cost uplifts, where applicable.
- Family Learning tutors will receive free, high-quality training on how to implement the programme
Primary schools that recruit 8 or more eligible parents onto the Family Numeracy Programme will receive a £500 incentive for participating in the trial.
Find out more:
Family Numeracy Programme Funding Guidance
Sign up here:
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An Adapted Mastery Approach & Contextualised Curriculum for Functional Skills Qualification Level 1 Funding
- You can claim 18 or 22.5 additional guided learning hours per learner to recognise providers are delivering additional learning that forms part of a FSQ L1 course (treatment group).
- Intervention costs will be paid at £7.20 per hour based on the AEB 24/25 funding rate plus area and disadvantaged cost uplifts, where applicable.
- A 10% admin premium, based on the total number of learners participating in the trial in the area (control & treatment group).
- All participating Providers will receive a £1000 payment (control & treatment group).
- Teachers will receive free, high-quality training on how to implement the lessons (treatment group).
Preparation for Maths GCSE Funding
What could you get for participating?
- You can claim 7 additional guided learning hours per learner to recognise providers are delivering additional learning that forms part of a broader adult GCSE course (treatment group).
- Intervention costs will be paid at £7.20 per hour based on the AEB 24/25 funding rate plus area and disadvantaged cost uplifts, where applicable.
- A 10% admin premium, based on the total number of learners participating in the trial in the area (control & treatment group).
- All participating providers will receive a £1000 payment (control & treatment group)
- Teachers will receive free, high-quality training on how to implement the lessons (treatment group).
Embedding Maths in a Health & Social Care Level 2 Course Funding
- You can claim 18 additional guided learning hours per learner to recognise providers are delivering additional learning.
- Intervention costs will be paid at £7.20 per hour based on the AEB 24/25 funding rate plus area and disadvantaged cost uplifts, where applicable.
- A 10% admin premium, based on the total number of learners participating in the trial in the area.
- All participating Providers will receive a £1000 payment.
- Teachers will receive free, high-quality training on how to implement the lessons.
How do we apply for the research trials?
If you've already expressed your interest in the form below and are ready to move to the next step, please complete the form via the button. This will allow you to apply for the trials you wish to participate in and share further eligibility criteria from your organisation.
Our team will conduct a review of your application, assessing your eligibility against the criteria for your selected trials. Once completed, we will reach out to you with the trial specification and next steps for your organisation. Meanwhile, if you have any questions then please let us know.
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How we use and protect your data
The purpose of the programme of trials is to evaluate interventions at a large scale and data collected for each trial will not be used for any other purpose. The trials will compare outcomes for learners in treatment and control groups, but there will be no comparisons made between individual organisations or teachers.
At an organisational level, we will ask for your contact details so that we can contact you when needed to arrange training, send you a survey or invite you to take part in an interview.
During the trial period, we will also ask organisations to send the evaluation team the contact details of any learners who opt out of taking part in the trials, so they can make sure they are removed from the analysis. For those learners who are taking part in the trials, we will ask for their contact details so we can send them a survey or invite them to take part in an interview about their learning experience.
Finally, we will ask organisations to collect data on learner attendance and compliance with any homework tasks, so we can take into account the ‘dosage level’ (i.e. the amount of intervention received) in the analysis and see if this makes any difference to the results. All of these asks will be covered through appropriate data sharing documentation. The full details of this will be included in the specification of an individual trial.
To find out further information about how government will use your data, please access this link.