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Wandering the streets of east London at 1am last Friday…
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Tories equate gay marriage with internet porn. When you read…
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I have run Gamespaceuk since its launch back in March…
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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 [...]
April 26, 2012 No Comments
If voting or peaceful demonstrations made any difference, they would have banned it already. ‘They’ being the beneficiaries of a culture of docility and complacency, and ‘it’ being any meaningful exercise of protest. It’s one of the oldest clichés in counterculture, borne of endless frustrations and failures harking back to soixante-huit and before. Alfie Meadows [...]
March 30, 2012 No Comments
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
There’s been a lot of speculation in the media about the impact of higher fees on potential university applicants, much of it focussed on those who won’t to go to university as a result. To shed further light on the issue, OpinionPanel has recently done some research on the impact of higher fees on people [...]
February 15, 2012 No Comments
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
The political life of Nick Clegg has been remarkable. A man who two years ago was barely recognised by the public has seen his reputation reach the frenzied heights of Cleggmania during the General Election campaign, only to drop to the depths of embarrassing defeat in the local elections earlier this year. As Parliament reconvenes [...]
September 19, 2011 1 Comment
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
Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) publishes OpinionPanel report on Attitudes to Science among 14-16 year olds. It shows just how important science is to the young — 81% of respondents were amazed by the achievements of science, and 65% felt that it is important to know about science in their daily lives. However [...]
March 25, 2011 1 Comment
I’ve always been fascinated by factors that can affect a person’s mental well being. The interest drove my degree choices – before joining OpinionPanel I completed a Clinical Psychology degree and then a Master’s degree in Research Methods in Psychology. The recent controversy around plans to increase undergraduate tuition fees made me consider the impact [...]
March 2, 2011 3 Comments
Wesley Stephenson is Producer of the excellent BBC Radio 4 programme, ‘More or Less’ (presented by Tim Hartford “The Undercover Economist”). The following article is a specially modified transcript of the programme, first broadcast on 10th December 2010. Our heartfelt thanks to Wesley and the ‘More or Less’ team for specially preparing this for OpinionPanel. [...]
February 1, 2011 54 Comments
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