Local and commuter students

Reports and analysis

• Office for Students: Differences in student outcomes
  The issues identified in this analysis are relevant for local and commuter student outcomes.
• Civic Universities Network: Truly civic: Strengthening the connection between universities and their places (2019)
  The Civic Universities Network has been established to strengthen the connections between universities and their place. This report highlights the importance of the civic university contribution to the economic, social, cultural and environmental wellbeing of the places in which they are located.
• The Sutton Trust: Home and away (February 2018)
  This report shows that commuter students are more likely to be from lower POLAR quintiles, from a black, Asian and minority ethnic background and have attended a state school. 
• Centre for Cities: The Great British brain drain (November 2016)
  This report highlights the concentration of graduate jobs in London and other major English cities.
• GOV.UK: The Shadbolt review (2016)
  The Shadbolt Review highlighted the importance of work placements in improving student progression outcomes on computer science programmes. 

Other resources

• Office for Students Challenge Competition: Improving outcomes for local graduates
  This page summarises the 16 projects funded through our Challenge Competition programme to support outcomes for local graduates.