YouthSight has been tracking the Student Vote since 2004. Our latest wave of research (wave 143) was conducted 8^th - 11^th November 2019. 

Prior to this, the previous wave was...

Guest article by Nick Hillman, Director of Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI)

While labour is still the top party for students, their popularity has fallen a long way since their dominant position from mid-2017 to early 2018. Jeremy Corbyn is still the most...

Students are unconvinced by Augar's proposals to reduce tuition fees to £7,500 but support bringing back maintenance grants

HEPI Policy Note 17

YouthSight has been tracking student...

YouthSight has been tracking the Student Vote since 2004. Our latest wave of research (Wave 141) was conducted 16^th to 19^th August 2019 for the Times Higher Education.  It shows...

In wave 6 of the HEPI / Youthsight Monitor we look into  contextual admissions and investigate what students really think about this offer-making process. 

Since 2015 we have been...

In wave 5 of the HEPI / Youthsight Monitor we review students' view surrounding the widely debated topic of institutional failure.

The monitor report compiled by the Higher...

Student views on Brexit

YouthSight / HEPI Monitor 5

YouthSight has been tracking the political views of students since 2004 and views on Brexit since 2016.  Today’s release was...

Tomorrow’s leaders reject Brexit; the Government’s handling of it & Labour’s position on it

Over two-thirds (68%) of students now back Labour, but most of them think Labour (55%) and Jeremy Corbyn (58%) back Remain.

Last week, HEPI and YouthSight polled over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students entitled to vote in the 2017 General Election.

Open Britain commissioned YouthSight to conduct a poll of UK students to see how they voted in the EU referendum, determine levels of regret in relation to the vote and understand...

Students in the UK turned out in large numbers to vote in the EU referendum but have to live with a result that they feel very negatively about.

Brexit delivered a huge shock to the UK's 124,000 EU students.

They've received reassurances, but we wanted to learn how they are actually feeling -