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National Student Survey

Higher Education

National Student Survey

Around 202,000 higher education-based students and over 6,000 students from further education colleges took part in the National Student Survey (NSS) 2008. You made your feelings known through 130,000 online surveys, 59,000 telephone interviews and 29,000 postal surveys.

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Huge numbers of you gave your views on your higher education courses. In some institutions, as many as 85 per cent of eligible students chose to get involved to make an impact on the future of higher education.
This information is available students, and particularly targeted at potential students, to see what students thought of their course. This information can be accessed through UNISTATS.

How you can get involved

From September 2008, the results of this massive project will be released to students’ unions and institutions on a new and improved website. You will be able to see the results results by:

  • Department
  • Gender
  • Age
  • Ethnicity
  • Full-/ part-time
  • Domicile
  • Religion (NI only)
  • Disability
  • Franchised
  • Year of study
  • Year of survey

Higher education students’ unions can also compare these results with past data for their institution from 2005, 2006 and 2007 to track changes and development over time. You can use your results to gauge student opinion, support your campaigns, identify best practice and look at areas for change and action. In addition, you can read case studies of what other unions have done with their NSS results in the past.

For more information on the NSS, please visit the student survey website.


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