National Student Survey 2020 open to finalists
The UK’s biggest survey of students is now open and we need your help to promote it to our final year undergraduates.
Eligible students will have already received an invitation to take part from the Vice-Chancellor and will receive a personalised link from Ipsos Mori – who run the survey independently.
How the results enhance student experience
The results have informed a range of enhancements to the student experience, including:
- a new module catalogue (and simplified module selection system to follow)
- reviews of curricula and assessment in a number of departments
- the rollout of Peer Dialogue on Teaching across all departments
- the increase in departments transitioning to Moodle
- the opening of the Student Opportunity Hub
- the imminent refurbishment of the first and second floors of the Library, ahead of a new-build project commencing in six to ten years.
Get involved
The most persuasive messages come from the staff that students already know. With that in mind, we are asking colleagues in academic and professional service departments to raise awareness of the survey and emphasise the importance of student feedback, while being careful not to compromise the anonymity of the survey or influence students’ responses (you can read clear guidance on this).
Each department with eligible students has lead colleagues organising efforts to promote the survey in-person and through departmental communication channels, which will complement the on-campus campaign that you may have already seen appearing.
How the NSS fits into our engagement with students
In autumn 2019, every academic department engaged in its annual ‘health check’ of the student learning experience through Teaching Excellence Group (TEG) meetings. The views of students and the approach to using them to improve quality featured high on the agenda in all 34 departments. As such, it was clear to see the evidence and momentum building behind a more collaborative approach to student engagement, which the University’s Education Strategy commits us to over the coming years.
We continue to believe that the most effective approaches to student engagement employ a range of methods, often starting with clear, reliable insights into the views of large groups of students through means such as surveys, and then working with smaller representative groups to unpick and address the issues they surface.
About the National Student Survey
The largest and most established survey of higher education students in the UK is the National Student Survey, which provides us with those reliable insights into the views of our undergraduate finalists.
78% of eligible Warwick students have responded in each of the last two years. In 2019, 3,371 students responded overall across 26 departments (with 23 of them each exceeding a 70% departmental response rate).
What you can do
Visit www.warwick.ac.uk/nss for more information on the survey.
Go to our staff resources page to download promotional resources.
Colleagues in academic departments can also contact their departmental leads (typically the Director of Education, Director of Student Experience & Progression or Academic Administrator) for more information on efforts to engage students in the department.
