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1. What is the National Student Survey (NSS)?
The NSS is a national initiative, conducted annually since 2005. The survey runs across all publicly funded Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the majority of HEIs in Scotland. Additionally, Further Education Colleges (FECs) in England and Further Education Institutions (FEIs) in Wales with directly funded higher education students are eligible to participate.
The survey asks final year undergraduates to provide feedback on their courses in a nationally recognised format, students on flexible courses will be asked to participate as they near the end of their course but not necessarily in their final year. There are 23 core questions, relating to the following aspects of the student learning experience:
- Teaching on my Course
- Assessment and Feedback
- Academic Support
- Organisation and Management
- Learning Resources
- Personal Development
- Overall Satisfaction
- Students' Union (Association or Guild)
Students are also given the opportunity to give positive and/or negative comments on their student learning experience as a whole at their university/college. If you provide comments at the end of the questionnaire, we may pass these on, anonymously, to your institution to help them identify how they can make improvements. To preserve your, and others, anonymity, please do not make comments that:
- could enable you as an individual to be identified
- name individuals
- make references that could identify an individual e.g. Course leader or head of department
Some institutions have opted to ask their students additional questions. If you are a student at one such institution you will only be asked to complete these extra questions after completing the main questionnaire online.
Completion of these extra questions is not obligatory and you can decline the invitation to complete these questions. Your answers for the main NSS questions will still be taken into account. The extra questions should only take a few minutes to complete. The answers to these questions will only be provided to the student’s institution and students’ union and are not publicly available.
The National Student Survey Questionnaire
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