There’s a growing issue with student loneliness & a lack of belonging or community.

UPP Foundation data 44% strongly or agree to being lonely

Extracurricular activities unsurprisingly helps foster community

More time on campus would help most to foster belonging #secretlife

#StudentFutures2 showed that much of the academic student experience has bounced back since Covid 📈.

79% of students agreed that their university had given them all the support they needed to prepare for the start of term, a rise of 36% since 2021/22.

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Eco sprint session presenting and developing their ideas from the Yorkshire Universities and UPP Foundation multi-university workshop with Hannah Wyatt representing the University of Hull

“Terrific and yet disturbing” - how Jim Dickinson describes the #studentfutures2 report as he delves into the data on the experiences of disabled students wonkhe.com/blogs/disabled… via @wonkhe

“Too many students want to simply get in to get out”.

Mary Curnock Cook and Richard Brabner 🇺🇦 summarise the findings from Student Futures 2 for Wonkhe

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UK students are feeling lonely and ‘underwhelmed’ by university experience, warns UPP Foundation report based on survey and focus groups
timeshighereducation.com/news/growing-d…

A thread🧵 on some of our key findings from #StudentFutures2

Our Head of AccessHE Richard Boffey responds to the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission Report - Two Years On👇

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Growing disconnect between students and their university experience, UPP Foundation report finds #studentfutures upp-foundation.org/growing-discon…

Great piece from Talia and Hannah Coleman Lincoln SU on Wonkhe - drawing on UPP Foundation Student Futures Manifesto and Pearson UK research on Belonging
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#HEtransitions2024 kicks off with presentations from Susie Whigham The Brilliant Club and Gaby Sumners Villiers Park Educational Trust summarising the details of their projects to support student success.

We are getting ready to host #HETransitions2024 with The Brilliant Club and Villiers Park Educational Trust today at Senate House Library - bringing the university, school and third sector together to discuss successful transition to and through university.

The Social Purpose University Conference is underway! Great to hear from our opening speakers, Student Hubs CEO Simran Dhanjal-Field and Director of the UPP Foundation Richard Brabner 🇺🇦. Keep an eye out for updates throughout the day #StudentHubsConference2024 🍊

The social purpose university - Jonathan Grant explains that we are going through in-between times driven by technological change

We are at Student Hubs conference today discussing the Social Purpose University, with the keynote about to be delivered by Jonathan Grant

We're (attempting) to define this today with UPP Foundation and Student Hubs at #StudentHubsConference24

As students discuss their ideas for today's challenge while getting insights from 3 different #sustainability experts, we are excited to see the outputs of the collaboration! Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission UPP Foundation Climate Action Leeds

#YUSustainability2023 #UPPFGrants2023

The Wonkhe University of London #HEFestival kicks off with a session on what places want from their universities - big focus on the outcomes from our civic university commission #trulycivic