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Continuing to support our National Student Survey (NSS) campaign

09 Mar 2023

We’re halfway through – so please do continue to help promote the NSS to our final year students

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Thank you to those of you who are working hard to encourage our undergraduate finalist students to complete their National Student Survey (NSS). It is important that we maintain our work to ensure we have feedback from as many students as possible.

The results are used internally to inform improvements to the student experience and, externally to compile University league tables, to inform our TEF submission and inform future students' choice of university/course through the Discover Uni website.

However, results can only be published and used if we reach at least a 50% response rate. The survey is open until 30 April 2023.

The importance of NSS

We use student feedback to make a real impact in our decision making, and it’s important our students know that they really can influence what we do.  For our current final years, during their time here we’ve experienced many changes to the way we operate and so this means it’s more important than ever that we listen and really understand what has worked for them and what hasn’t.

Continuing to promote the NSS to students 

Students who haven’t yet completed their survey will continue to be contacted by IpsosMori, and Student Communications teams (Central and Faculty) have ongoing communications campaigns. However, if you teach, advise or support students, you really can help boost response rates because we know that students respond particularly well to messages from people they know and communicate with on a regular basis.

Information, advice and promotional materials for School use can be found on Promoting the NSS pages, on StaffNet. Here, you will also find clear guidance about how to avoid inappropriate influence. 

You can also speak with your Faculty Communications team for advice on any local communication plans. 

Incentives for students to complete the survey 

As a thank you for their time, every student who takes part in the NSS 2023 can enter a prize draw to win one of 17 prizes that include an iPad Air, vouchers and graduation day packages.

Additionally, for each response submitted the University will also make a £2 charitable donation, split equally between the following good causes: 

Find out more about the incentives and charitable causes on our NSS StaffNet pages.

Further information 

Thank you for your continued support in ensuring our students’ voices are heard. 

Professor April McMahon 
Vice-President for Teaching, Learning and Students