You’ve successfully navigated our website to find this blog post… but what do you think of the rest of our site? 

Our VP Engagement, Fleur, is looking to improve our website as part of her Sabb plan, so we want to hear from you. Is susu.org as user friendly as possible? Can you find all the information you’re looking for?

Tell us what you think via our Website Review here: SUSU Website Survey

Everyone who completes the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win a £25 Amazon gift voucher.… Read the rest

How did we do this year? We want to hear your feedback on the Students’ Union – our events and places, our support for students, our academic representation and more. Complete our survey to tell us what you think has been great and what you think we can improve on.

Complete the survey here: How Did We Do?

Everyone who takes part will be entered into a prize draw to win a lastminute.com flight voucher worth £150* to help you have an amazing summer! Will you explore somewhere new or your favourite destination?

Whatever you decide to do, have a … Read the rest

Our very own Learning and Development Department has been recognised as one of the highest performing departments in the L&D sector at Charity Learning Consortium’s Conference happening in London yesterday (Thursday 22 June).

Hannah Hastilow (Learning & Development Manager) and Margarita Palmer-Stanelik, (Learning & Development Coordinator) were invited to deliver a 30-minute presentation on “Successful Blended Learning Solutions” where they presented the success of their ‘A To B’ Project Management Training programme implemented at the Union from January this year.

The mix of class-room based and e-learning solutions implemented to deliver this course was recognised as “innovative” and … Read the rest

The university currently has a number of key surveys out at the moment, designed to improve the student experience across a range of areas.

Whether you are a PGR, PGT or an undergrad, make sure you get your voice heard by completing one of the following surveys:

Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES)

The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) is the only UK higher education sector-wide survey to gain insight from postgraduate research students about their learning and supervision experience. The feedback from this survey will help to improve the experience for our postgraduate research students.If you are a PGR … Read the rest

What do you make of the wifi around campus?

As students, you use the internet everyday to study, socialise, do banking and pay bills. That’s why you should have your say on the University’s iSolutions survey.

iSolutions are asking for student feedback on the wireless internet service, so they are able to make improvements as part of a bigger project over the next year.

The survey takes just a few minutes to complete and you can do it online here before Friday 07 April.

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Members of our Marketing and Communications Crew hit campus last week to gain your views on the student experience in both Southampton and Winchester.

The crew, who are also students here at the University of Southampton, took ipads around campus to encourage you to fill out the National Student Survey (NSS).

The national survey, which can be completed at www.thestudentsurvey.co.uk, is a UK-wide feedback indicator, which is used to help us and the University to improve the student experience.

Open to all final year undergraduate students, we use the information to make positive changes for the future.

Some changes … Read the rest

In the recent National Student Survey 2016 results, Union Southampton dropped six points to an overall satisfaction rating of 66%. The sector average for satisfaction is 68%, so we are slightly below that. While we had some good news, specifically a massive increase of satisfaction at the Winchester School of Art campus, this overall satisfaction result is obviously disappointing.

We had a high percentage of respondents who responded that they neither agreed nor disagreed with the statement (20%) or felt the Union was not applicable to them (2%). This represents a large percentage of our members who are indifferent and … Read the rest

What is the NSS?

If you’re a third year student, you probably can’t go anywhere without seeing or hearing about the National Student Survey, or NSS.

The NSS is a nationwide census of nearly half a million students which gathers feedback on your time at university. This information is then used to identify what went well and what could be improved.

The survey will soon be entering its next stage and contacting students by telephone, so if you haven’t yet taken the survey and want to avoid getting hassled, make sure you head over to the National Student Survey 2016… Read the rest

The Union is run based on your feedback and suggestions, so if you like something we do, or you think we’re not getting it quite right – tell us! For general improvements, the best way to get your voice heard is by contacting your Full-Time Sabbatical Officers directly, getting in touch with us on Twitter @yoursusu, or via Facebook (SUSU, The Union Winchester pages). Alternatively, you can submit a question or feedback via You Make Change on our website. This is a great format which allows all questions to be publicly displayed on the website with responses … Read the rest

SUSU Brand Review Update

We have had an overwhelming response with the Brand Review survey. Over 2,000 of you have told us what you think about the SUSU brand. Today is the final day of the survey, so if you haven’t filled it out yet, make sure you do! Your views on this are vital. Our brand is about how you as our audience see, talk about and experience the Students’ Union.

Fill out the survey here.

So what now?

The brand review is not just asking you what you think about our logo. We want to get enough … Read the rest