Student experience surveys
The HEA has recently held its annual Surveys for Enhancement conference, at which it launched 11 NSS Discipline Reports. Visit the National Student Survey page to access the reports. Presentations from the conference, including the keynotes from Professor Keith Trigwell and Gwen van der Velden, will be available shortly.
Student experience surveys can be a major source of information about students' learning experiences. We support higher education institutions and disciplines to use survey data for enhancement purposes.
Our work is centred around three different surveys.
We support institutions and disciplines to interpret and use NSS data to make real improvements in learning and teaching. In addition to disseminating research and examples of good practice, we produce subject specific analyses of the data, and directly support institutions and departments to effectively explore and use their results.
PRES and PTES comprise a unique service run by the HEA and made available to UK HEIs which have postgraduate provision. The surveys allow institutions to collect feedback on the experiences of their research and taught postgraduate students, in an anonymous and user-friendly way. Each institution’s data is confidential to that institution, ensuring result are used for enhancement purposes rather than for league tables. Participating institutions are able to benchmark their results against the national sector aggregate and those of similar institutions by joining benchmarking clubs.
For both PRES and PTES we continue to support institutions after the survey period has ended through our programme of enhancement activities.
