Twelve per cent of students do not feel able to express their opinions openly and without restriction on campus.
Although that isn’t many, those of you firing up the outrage machines will already have spotted that is more than one in ten. But stay with me – this story gets more nuanced.
This polling from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) uses a small sample, but we do get a range of splits to examine. The quality of responses is variable – for example asking students who they voted for in 2019 probably felt like a good idea at the time, but in practice only current third years would have been eligible to vote.
