July 20, 2022

Can university leaders deliver what students want from future education?

Research looks at what university leaders can do to improve higher education for students to make them stay in education

Debate rages on in the media as to whether university applications are continuing to drop or hold steady, with a slight decline in applications reported by UCAS in 2022. Retention rates also remain challenging, with HESA reporting that over 5% of young students and nearly 12% of mature students did not continue their degree after the first year. These metrics are a bi-product of just some of the challenges facing university leaders in the United Kingdom.