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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 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
- Satisfaction with the
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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