Market Research Insights and Research Findings
Latest Market Research Insights
Teachers too optimistic when predicting grades, survey suggests
August 2015 - Education
Analysis of exam board data has revealed that teachers are often too optimistic when setting predicted grades for pupils. Researchers compared GCSE and A-level results awarded by exam board, OCR, with the predicted grades submitted by teachers, as part of… Read more...
Report shows SME loans aren’t always risky
August 2015 - Business Support
A recent report – published by Interim Partners – has revealed that small business lending is not always risky, with a new survey discovering that SME lending in the United Kingdom in expected to give banks their highest margin growth out of any… Read more...
More students than ever working to fund university, survey finds
August 2015 - Education
According to findings of a recent study by Endsleigh, the insurance firm, more students than ever before are having to work to fund their university course and approximately 50 per cent dip into their overdraft to cover the costs. Of the respondents, 77 per… Read more...
Support for fracking is at a new low, Government survey shows
August 2015 - Oil and Gas
A recent survey, by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, has revealed that public support for fracking has sunk to a new low. The findings revealed that just 21 per cent of people support the extracting of shale gas for UK use. The figure represents… Read more...
Smartphones have overtaken laptops as the most popular device to access the internet
August 2015 - Information Technology
Ofcom’s latest Communications Market Report has revealed that smartphones have overtaken laptops as British people’s most favoured method of accessing the internet. The findings have been attributed to society’s love of taking selfies. The… Read more...
