Are your members taking part?

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 per cent 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: from September 2008, the results of this massive project will be released to students’ unions and institutions on a new and improved website, where you can able to break down their 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 instuitution from 2005, 2006 and 2007 to track changes and development over time.

You can use your results to guage student opinion, support your campaigns, identify best practice and look at areas for change and action.

You can now how you can access and use your results, and 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 for more information.