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N-TUTORR External Evaluation Final Report

This report provides a summary of the external evaluation commissioned by the NTUTORR Programme in June 2024. The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the programme’s effectiveness in achieving its stated objectives, and to provide outputs “to help guide the ongoing and future implementations of the programme, and any successor programmes that may be developed in response to future funding opportunities, ensuring the attainment of N-TUTORR’s longer term strategic objectives efficiently and sustainably

This report was written by Sheila MacNeill and Helen Beetham.

June 20, 2025

The N-TUTORR programme has significantly exceeded its set targets around student and staff engagement in training and learning activities. It created effective programme management processes for the successful delivery of a complex multi-million Euro funded programme. The range and depth of the outputs from the programme clearly demonstrates both the capacity and capability of the partners to work at both sectoral and institutional levels to transform the student learning experience. Deliverables include, but are not limited to, transformed campus facilities, digitally enhanced frameworks for academic integrity, resources to support staff and students engage with generative AI, and new student partnership approaches to curriculum design.

The N-TUTORR programme has laid the foundations for sector-wide transformation, providing a successful blueprint for collaborative, sector-level development and innovation. Its impact extends beyond its immediate outputs. N-TUTORR has enabled a cultural step change in increasing confidence around the distinctive learning opportunities that the Technological University sector provides.