The National Student Survey 2020 will launch on Thursday 06 February. This survey is for final years only, and is your chance to say what you think about your course at the University of Southampton.

If you’re in the final year of your course you will receive a personalised survey link to your University email address this week, so remember to check your inboxes! The survey is anonymous, run independently from the University and only takes a few minutes to complete.

For every completed survey the University will donate £1 to the Student Support Fund – over £6,000 was raised … Read the rest

The National Student Survey (NSS) and Southampton Student Survey (SSS) are currently open for students to provide feedback about their University experience. Your feedback can help the Union and the University in improving the student experience in the future.

The NSS is available for final year Undergraduate students to complete here: www.thestudentsurvey.com

The SSS is available for all Undergraduates (who aren’t in final year) to complete: Southampton Student Survey

Both surveys are open until Monday 30 April 2018, so don’t miss out on having your say!… 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

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 latest National Student Survey (NSS) released today, shows that satisfaction with the Union has improved from 69% to 72%.

We are happy to announce that this rise in score means that the Union has jumped up 12 spaces in the union rankings within the Student Survey table.

While we are pleased with this improvement, we recognise this is just a starting point and a lot of work still needs to be done to put us where we want to be as one of the top five unions in the country.

In response to the results, Union President, Ben Franklin … Read the rest

The National Student Survey is in full swing for just one more week – we’ve already given you 12 Reasons Why You Should Probably Do The National Student Survey, but if that’s not enough, we chatted to Sophia D’angelico, your VP Education, about why she thinks it’s worth your time.

Last week saw the launch of the National Student Survey (NSS), giving you final year undergraduates an opportunity to give feedback on your University experience.

This year for the first time, to help promote the NSS, we asked all you to design posters that would help get your attention.

We are now pleased to announce our two lucky winners:
◾Jed Marshall, a Mechanical Engineering Student from the Faculty of Engineering & the Environment (you can see his poster here)
◾Alice Smith, an International Marketing Student from the Faculty of Business & Law (you can see her poster here… Read the rest

This February will see the launch of the 2015 National Student Survey (NSS) here at the University of Southampton. The NSS is an annual survey of (mostly final-year) undergraduates in the UK. The survey is designed to collect feedback from students about their university experience and make that information available to prospective students in order to better inform them of their university choices. To celebrate the launch of the promotional campaign, we are inviting students to create a poster design that will be used alongside the official NSS poster campaign!

Professor Alex Neill, (Pro Vice Chancellor of Education) explains that … Read the rest