Full-time UK undergraduates reporting AI use, support and institutional provision; percent, December 2025 survey.
Full-time United Kingdom undergraduates were surveyed in December 2025 on generative AI use and AI-related support in higher education. The comparison covers seven student indicators, with student respondents as the denominator for the main rows. Ninety-five percent reported using AI in at least one way, while 37% agreed their institution encouraged AI use. Student AI use was 2.57 times the institutional encouragement rate, a 58 percentage-point gap.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Using AI in any way | 95% | 2026 report |
| 2 | Using GenAI for assessed work | 94% | 2026 report |
| 3 | AI skills are essential | 68% | 2026 report |
| 4 | AI improves experience | 49% | 2026 report |
| 5 | Staff help with AI skills | 48% | 2026 report |
| 6 | Provided with AI tools | 38% | 2026 report |
| 7 | Institution encourages AI use | 37% | 2026 report |
Source 1: HEPI and Kortext
Publisher: HEPI and Kortext
Dataset/table: Student generative AI survey
Units: % of full-time undergraduate respondents
Date checked: 2026-05-24
Evidence: Supports UK undergraduate AI-use, assessed-work use, skills, student-experience and tool-provision indicators.
Source 2: HEPI and Kortext
Publisher: HEPI and Kortext
Dataset/table: Institutional encouragement figure
Units: % of full-time undergraduate respondents
Date checked: 2026-05-24
Evidence: Supports the student institutional encouragement and disagreement indicators.
The HEPI and Kortext survey polled 1,054 full-time UK undergraduate students in December 2025 and weighted responses by key student characteristics. The figures represent student respondents rather than all UK higher-education learners.
Rows use HEPI and Kortext survey indicators for full-time UK undergraduate students. The main multiple compares AI use in any way with agreement that the institution encourages AI use.
All seven displayed indicators come from the same HEPI and Kortext survey report and use full-time UK undergraduate respondents as the population basis.
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