The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has some new polling out on students’ political views – and given as I type there’s an election in three days’ time, buried in it is a statistic so shocking as to be almost unbelievable.
In Savanta’s sample, 89 per cent of students say they are registered to vote – but 64 per cent of those students who are registered to vote say they are registered only at their home address.
Let’s unpack that a bit. The poll is from early April and is of UK domiciled full-time undergraduates, and given the results are unweighted, let’s imagine that it’s nonetheless perfectly representative.
Of those registered to vote studying away from home, just 29 per cent were registered at their term-time address.
