The National Student Survey: Get Involved!

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

Huge numbers of students have given their views on their higher education courses, in some institutions as many as 85% of eligible students have chosen to get involved to make an impact on the future of higher education.

But now, it’s over to you: the results of this massive project are available to students’ unions by visiting the NSS results site:

• 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 as far back as 2005 to track changes and developments over time and for the first time this year, further education colleges running higher education courses can see what students thought in 2008.

You can use the NSS results to gauge student opinion, support your campaigns, identify best practice and look at areas for change and action and compare and contrast student opinion at a local and national level.

For more information on the NSS, please visit the Student Survey website for more information or download the NUS Guide to the National Student Survey.