This year's report presents data on students and staff at UK higher education institutions covering a 10-year period that has seen a transition to new higher education funding systems in England and Wales, and ongoing challenges related to restrictions on public funding following the economic downturn at the beginning of this period.
The report also looks at patterns in income and expenditure of UK higher education institutions in 2015–16, and for the first time, also includes a forward-looking chapter that considers emerging trends and projections related to demographic, economic, technological and political changes that are likely to have implications for future trends in higher education.