Results from this year’s National Student Survey (NSS) published today show an increase in students rating their access to resources positively, while views of teaching quality still lag behind pre-pandemic levels.
The survey – one of the largest of its kind in the world with almost 325,000 responses across the UK this year – highlights some overall improvements in students’ views about the quality of their education, with significant variation between individual universities and colleges.
There is also variation in the views of students studying different subjects – with 89 per cent of veterinary students positive about the quality of teaching on their course, compared with 76 per cent of computing students across the UK. While many subjects have shown signs of post-pandemic recovery, there is a small further dip in positive ratings for medicine and dentistry, and physical sciences, on the teaching quality questions.
