Student success

Our members are committed to making sure students thrive academically. We help our universities reduce degree-awarding inequalities between students of different ethnicities and share good practice in supporting students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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14 May 2025 Explainer

14 May 2025 Explainer

How are universities supporting career-ready graduates?

Naomi Abayasekara, Policy Adviser, explores how UUK’s Access to Success Action Plan can better support graduates to kick-start their careers after university.
30 April 2025 Opinion

30 April 2025 Opinion

'Win-win-win': how the University of Exeter is driving solutions to prior attainment challenges

Lee Elliot Major, Professor of Social Mobility at the University of Exeter explains how a pioneering model of tutoring developed at the university can help support attainment in schools and the students of the future.
15 April 2024 Media releases

15 April 2024 Media releases

University helps three quarters (73%) of ‘first-in-the-family’ graduates get over their imposter syndrome but, without financial support, over 4 in 10 couldn’t have afforded to go at all

New research from Universities UK demonstrates the extraordinary power of university for those students who are the first in their family to attend
31 July 2023 Publications

31 July 2023 Publications

The value of going to university

Universities offer opportunities, increase social mobility and benefit economies across the length and breadth of the country. But what is the individual value of going to university for graduates and business leaders?
31 July 2023 News

31 July 2023 News

73% of UK graduates say going to university got them the job they wanted

Our new data reveals that 73% of UK graduates credit going to university with enabling them to find the job they wanted.
20 October 2022 Interview

20 October 2022 Interview

In conversation with: Professor Charles Egbu

How does it feel to be one of the UK’s first Black vice-chancellors? We asked Professor Charles Egbu, Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University, about racial inequality in higher education and his own journey from undergraduate to university leader.
21 July 2022 Publications

21 July 2022 Publications

Closing the gap: three years on

What progress have universities made so far on ethnicity degree awarding gaps, and what more do they need to do?
11 May 2022 Opinion

11 May 2022 Opinion

Why student number caps will hurt everyone, not just universities

New proposals will make widening participation and levelling up even harder says our President, Professor Steve West CBE.
20 December 2021 Opinion

20 December 2021 Opinion

Closing the gap: How can university leaders take action on ethnicity degree awarding gaps?

Dr Sal Jarvis, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Education at the University of Westminster, argues good leadership is critical in taking action on degree awarding gaps.
8 October 2019 Insights and analysis

8 October 2019 Insights and analysis

Supporting care experienced students through university

Care experienced people face significant challenges.
2 May 2019 Publications

2 May 2019 Publications

Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic student attainment at UK universities: closing the gap

An attainment gap between students of different ethnicities exists at the vast majority of universities.

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