03 Dec 2020
YouthSight has been partnering with The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) on our Monitor Series since 2015 and producing results for the Student Academic Experience Survey since 2006 - delivering ground-breaking insight to the HE sector…
05 Nov 2020
Depending on which news sources you take, students are either villains (selfish Covid super-spreaders), or victims (of the infamous ‘algorithm’, left to rot in quarantine and under-served by greedy universities). Neither of these…
23 Sep 2020
YouthSight's Josephine Hansom (Managing Director of Insight) has been working with our client Sarah Barr Miller (Head of Data Insights at UCAS) to provide insights into the applicant mindset. In this joint guest blog, Sarah and Josephine reflect…
22 Sep 2020
In our latest webinar with our client at UCAS, we return to the beginning of the recruitment cycle to look at how 2021 applicants are feeling about going to university next year. We shed light on what their concerns are, what resources they’re…
24 Aug 2020
Last minute changes to the grading system bought chaos and confusion to many A Level students this year. And as emotions run high on Results Day, universities were forced to rethink their entire comms strategy - Here's the top five key insights…
14 Aug 2020
Young students have already taken the brunt of Covid's fallout and given the last minute decision to change the way A Level grades were calculated, it's no wonder that many are feeling deflated. We asked some of our young members how their…
29 Jul 2020
In our fifth wave of research with UCAS, we explore applicants' feelings towards starting university, their commitment to their firm choice and how they feel about Clearing and deferral. If you’ve been following our UCAS webinar series: ‘an…
08 Jul 2020
In our latest poll with The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) we find that students' satisfaction with online learning is falling and they're searching for better communication on the academic year ahead.
04 Jun 2020
By Ben Marks, YouthSight CEO The Covid-19 crisis means universities need to start communicating clearly, honestly, positively – and quickly with their current undergraduate applicants.
