This report is the sixth in a series commissioned by the Longer Term Strategy Group of Universities UK, with the
support of SCOP, as a “yearbook” for higher education, updating and expanding previous information about higher
education institutions generally while also addressing issues of immediate interest.

The sixth report is in three main sections, with brief conclusions:
Section A: Trends in UK higher education, which sets out some of the macro-level trends during the last 10 years, and which provides the context for the findings about institutional patterns in this report.

Section B: Patterns of diversity, which updates information about the institutions within the HE sector provided in the earlier Patterns reports.

Section C: Student experience, an analysis of various aspects of the student experience and how it has changed over time.