Nick Hillman
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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Uh look, I love this survey and I love it partly not because of my current job, but because of my first job after university.
And my first job after university.
Was being a secondary school teacher.
And I did run a pre-university course.
This is going back to the mid-1990s.
And the level of information available and the understanding of what young people were expecting about higher education at the time was minimal to non-existent.
And over the years, of course, we've become really good at grilling and polling students, you know, official surveys like the National Students.
survey and things like the Happy Advance HE student academic experience survey.
And we got really good at polling, at least undergraduates, but we've been much less good at grilling the people on their way to university.
And the reason it's so important, in my opinion,
is if you look, for example, at our other really big survey, the Student Academic Experience Survey that we do with Advance HE, it shows a big disconnect between what people think higher education is going to be like and what it's really like.
What the applicant survey allows us to do is find out what people currently in sick forms in old money who have submitted a UCAS form expect higher education to be like.
And I think that's really useful
to them themselves, but also to their teachers, their parents, careers advisors, and to universities.
Well, I think it's huge because of course admissions is a really big function of universities.
And in a way, a bigger function in our country than other countries, 'cause in many other countries you typically go to your local university.
And you often stay living at home.
So it's a much less big transition point in your lives.
Whereas here, uh, we have this very hierarchical system.
Not every course is available in every part of the country.
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