What students think about the forthcoming referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU: Wave One of the HEPI / YouthSight Monitor

The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) exists to encourage a healthy higher education policy debate rooted in evidence. Rather than taking one side or the other on the European question, we hope to encourage well-informed debate as the referendum approaches. To this end, we have worked with a market research company that specialises in questioning students, YouthSight, to uncover:

• students’ views and depth of feeling on the EU;
• their likelihood of voting in the referendum;
• whether 16 and 17-year olds should be allowed to vote;
• students’ preferences on how universities should act in the referendum campaign;
• their views on the current student finance rules for students from the EU; and
• their opinions on the Prime Minister’s renegotiation on the terms of UK membership.