04.01.2006
The National Student Survey (NSS) is due to be launched at the University of Brighton for the second year running on Monday 9 January 2006.
The NSS has been commissioned by the higher education funding bodies for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and covers all the HE institutions they fund. It is part of the revised system of quality assurance for higher education, which replaces subject review by the QAA. The NSS is designed to run alongside QAA institutional audit, to generate more detailed public information about teaching quality.
Through the survey, all final year undergraduate students will be asked to provide feedback on the following topics:
- quality of teaching
- assessment and feedback
- academic support
- organisation and management
- learning resources
- personal development
- overall satisfaction
The results of the 2005 survey have been published through the Teaching Quality Information website, designed to help future students in their decision making process in choosing what courses and/or institutions they wish to attend. The 2006 results will further contribute to this.
The results of the first National Student Survey in 2005 were an overwhelmingly positive endorsement of higher education. The results will enable prospective students to make well informed choices about their courses. By providing valuable feedback on their learning experiences, today's students have an essential role in helping their successors make the right decisions about their higher education.
Ipsos MORI have been appointed to conduct the survey. They work in accordance with the Data Protection Act and guidelines agreed by the Market Research Society.
Final year students should shortly receive an email from Ipsos MORI inviting them to complete the survey online at www.thestudentsurvey.com (opens in new window). The survey is simple to complete and should take no more than five minutes of their time.
It is vitally important that as many students as possible provide their feedback for the survey to generate reliable information - within any given subject area in an institution, the aim is to achieve a response rate of at least 50% for the data to be deemed sufficiently robust to publish.
Contact: Marketing and Communications, University of Brighton, 01273 643022
