Education Market Research Insights And Findings
Survey Reveals GCSE Students Want Good Salary Over Career Helping Others
August 2013
A survey of almost 300 GCSE students, by KPMG, a professional services firm – revealed that two thirds (66%) put earning a good salary as their top post-school priority, while just over three tenths (35%) said they wanted to go into a career helping… Read more...
Higher Education Statistics Authority Figures Show Rise in Postgraduate Students Taking Foreign Courses
August 2013
Figures from research provided by the Higher Education Statistics Authority suggest that British students are increasingly engaging in a different form of ‘gap year’ following the end of their time at university. Following their undergraduate… Read more...
Market Research Poll Shows High Number of Students Find Clearing Stressful
August 2013
The latest market research poll published by Which? consumer group, found that almost half (48%) of students find the clearing process stressful. Of students, one in six (15%) who find a place via clearing are likely to regret their choice of course, as opposed… Read more...
A-Level Results Show Fall In Top Grades For Second Consecutive Year
August 2013
After years of annual increases, the proportion of students achieving the top A-Level grades has fallen for a second consecutive year. In 2013, a little over a quarter (26.3%) of exam entries were awarded A or A* grades. In 2012 the figure was 26.6%, whilst… Read more...
New Education Sector Market Research Suggests Students Wary of Costs of Postgraduate Study
August 2013
A survey of more than 1,100 UK students has found that two thirds do not believe that continuing with further study is worth the cost. Only a little over a third (35%) of respondents in their second or third years at university, said that they agreed that… Read more...
More pupils taking GCSEs earlier, says Market Research For Education Regulator Ofqual
August 2013
Recent figures released by BBC Watchdog reveal that there were more pupils taking GCSE’s earlier than the usual 16-year-old age group. In GCSE maths, the number of younger students rose five percentage points last year to just over a fifth (23%), whilst… Read more...
