Opinion Panel

When I joined OpinionPanel I was keen to know about two aspects of the business. First, how effective is an online panel of students and graduates as a means to providing access and reach to the student population and second how accurate is the data collected via an on-line survey? I am relieved to report [...]

Research conducted by OpinionPanel has been documented on the Channel 4 News website.The article starts: “Students turn against the Liberal Democrats and embrace Labour as opposition mounts to the Coalition Government’s plan to treble university tuition fees.OpinionPanel poll of students has found that just 11 per cent of those eligible to vote would back the [...]

At the beginning of the election campaign, prior to the leadership debates, student support was split between the three main parties. 27% intended to vote Lib Dem, compared with 30% Conservative and 32% Labour.

This story was prepared by press agency London Media based on fieldwork conducted by OpinionPanel using our Student Omnibus Survey. The majority of students in the UK feel betrayed by Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats over rising tuition fees, according to damning new figures. A new survey shows 73 per cent of university students [...]

There are a variety of far-fetched rumours, that quite uncomfortably for some, may be true. These rumours are about the ongoing review of higher education funding, led by Lord Browne with one of the suggestions being that from 2013 there will be a £1,000 increase in tuition fees annually. This increase will continue until students [...]

The impact of the Leader Debates on the student vote has been nothing short of remarkable. Between the start of the current general election campaign and the second Leader Debate, student support for the Liberal Democrats increased by 23 percentage points, making them as popular as the Labour and Conservative votes combined. Opinionpanel’s latest polling [...]