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52%
52% -- share of students rating access to part time work very important for UK first-year students (2026)
52% of first-year students rate access to part-time work as very important, up from 34% in 2021 according to Savanta's HESS.
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52%
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Data Vintage
2026
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B
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95
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60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Savanta
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https://savanta.com/knowledge-centre/view/what-students-are-telling-us-about-university-life-in-2026… ↗
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What students are telling us about university life in 2026 - Savanta
The Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES), produced by Advance HE and the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) using online fieldwork delivered by Savanta, takes the temperature of undergraduate life in the UK. Now in its third decade, it is one of the most comprehensive and widely reference…
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Savanta Higher Education Success Suite (HESS); up from 34% in 2021 (+18pp)
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UK first-year students: 52% share of students rating access to part time work very important. Source: Savanta (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-students-parttime-work-importance-2026
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