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Although much or our research is private, when our clients publish our findings we like to share the results with our panellists, either here on our research page or via news letters emailed directly to you. Find some more recent findings below:

Which? and the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) release new research revealing large variations in student workload

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

Consumer champion Which? releases new research on what students should expect in their first semester at university

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 launches new Common Inspection Framework following research with the OpinionPanel Community

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

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The OpinionPanel Community powers HEPI’s latest report on The Academic Experience of Students in English Universities

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 Student Experience Survey – Well done Dundee!

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

Fee increase outweighed by ‘return on investment’

OpinionPanel’s recent research on the affect of university tuition fees on applicants was cited in a Times Higher Education article. The research highlighted the importance of ‘return on investment’ by universities to new applicants in that their university choice hinges more on what they perceive they will gain afterwards such as good employment. The THE [...]

February 16, 2012 No Comments

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OpinionPanel help BIS with impact assessments

As announced in Daily Hansard, 5th December 2011, John Hayes, the Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced that he will be publishing impact assessments of BIS’s proposals to introduce Further Education loans for people aged over 24 in 2014/15. The [...]

December 8, 2011 2 Comments

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OpinionPanel carries out research for GE Young Minds Monitor

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The GE Young Minds Monitor explores the views of technology leaders on the current state of the technology and engineering industry. OpinionPanel was commissioned to interview over 1,000 engineering students and lecturers to find out what technology leaders of today and tomorrow think about the future of engineering technology, as well as the perceptual differences [...]

June 14, 2011 No Comments