In 2021 the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission had an ambitious aim: to understand how the pandemic was impacting new and current students, and to identify how the higher education sector could work with students to get them back on track.
Nearly three years on, our new report shows that much of the acute impact of the pandemic has been mitigated by a sector intent on supporting successful student futures. Our polling evidence in particular shows that some of the university experience has bounced back, and students are generally satisfied with their time in higher education. It is clear that universities have worked hard to help build back provision and campuses post-pandemic.
For example, 79 per cent of the students surveyed for the report agreed that their university had given them all the support they needed to prepare for the start of term. 74 per cent were working at or above the academic level they expected to be. And 74 per cent agreed that they feel happy at university.
