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Recent study conducted by YouthSight with 1,000 participants. Original press release can be found here. A new study released by the Nightline Association suggests negative feelings and mood states including depression, anxiety, and stress are prevalent [...]
June 7, 2013 1 Comment
Recent study conducted by YouthSight with 1,000 participants. Original press release can be found here. A new study released by the Nightline Association suggests negative feelings and mood states including depression, anxiety, and stress are prevalent in the UK’s student population. A nationally representative sample of 1000 university students found that 75% of you have personally [...]
June 7, 2013 1 Comment
Every year here we survey our wonderful panelists on your voting habits. We then compare these results to the general population, and we look at how your political views have changed. Our most recent polling of higher education students finds that whilst wider opinion polls suggest the UK electorate is moving further to the right, [...]
May 23, 2013 No Comments
Today Which? and HEPI have released the results of a study based on 17,000 of our student panelists. You have helped to reveal variations in the amount and type of scheduled teaching at universities. The research has shown that students studying the same subject at different universities receiving as much as double the amount of [...]
May 15, 2013 No Comments
Which? has released new findings from a survey of 2012/13 university freshers, conducted with 1,200 members of the OpinionPanel Community’s Student Panel, which looked at how students’ expectations of their first semester at university match up to the reality. Reassuringly, more than half (54%) of those of you who took part found it easier than [...]
February 13, 2013 No Comments
Ofsted, as many of you know, is responsible for inspecting and regulating further education and skills providers in England. Each inspection they carry out with these providers is based on a regularly reviewed and updated framework called the Common Inspection Framework for Further Education. In 2011, Ofsted launched a public consultation to help revise the [...]
September 26, 2012 No Comments
A survey commissioned from YouthSight by the Student Loans Company (SLC) shows that freshers heading to university may be leaving themselves vulnerable to online phishing attacks by sharing too much personal data. For instance, the majority of survey respondents only consider up to a quarter of their Facebook friends to be close friends. Nearly three [...]
September 21, 2012 No Comments
Following reports written by Professor Paul Whitely in 2008 and 2010, here is our latest report on the student vote, produced by Charlotte Snelling using Youth Sight’s unique data on student voting intention, stretching back to 2004. Charlotte Snelling is an ESRC funded PhD student in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, whose research focuses [...]
August 23, 2012 1 Comment
YouthSight’s most recent snapshot of student voting behaviour in the UK (conducted in July 2012) finds students’ party preferences to be in tune with trends within the wider UK electorate. Labour is currently enjoying the most support nationally amongst both students and wider electors, followed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats bringing up the [...]
August 8, 2012 1 Comment
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published its latest report on the Academic Experience of Students in English Universities. Based on 9,000 interviews with full time undergraduate students at English universities, the fieldwork and data analysis were completed by YouthSight. This is the fourth wave of research. Larger waves were undertaken for HEPI by YouthSight [...]
May 17, 2012 No Comments
The University of Dundee has come top in the Times Higher Education’s (THE) annual Student Experience Survey today. We polled 14,000 students on behalf of the THE on how they rated their university’s performance across 21 categories that matter to them most. These range from the quality of staff and lectures to social life and [...]
April 26, 2012 1 Comment
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