HEPI / Unite Students webinar: Launch of the Unite Students’ 2026 Applicant Index

**UPDATE: A recording of the webinar is available below**

HEPI and Unite Students are delighted to announce the launch of the fifth annual Unite Students’ Applicant Index 2026 on Wednesday 24 June, with a webinar at 11am to 12pm.

First launched in 2022, in partnership with HEPI, the Index systematically tracks university applicants’ attitudes each year, asking students about their lives before university and offering UK higher education institutions an indicator of what to expect when students arrive in the autumn.

The annual survey covers themes including: finance, social, community, wellbeing, resilience, learning, employment, independence and sustainability, providing insight into the needs, wants and level of preparedness of a new cohort of first-year students.

Speakers

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  Becca Hayhurst

  Head of Resident Experience & Wellbeing, Unite Students

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  Dr Jo Saxton CBE

  Chief Executive, UCAS

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  Favour Samuel

  Incoming NUS England President and current President of the University of Nottingham Students’ Union

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  Tuely Robins

  Director of Strategic Partnerships, StudentCrowd

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  Charlotte Armstrong (Chair)

  Policy Manager, HEPI

Register

To register your place and for further details please click here.