Postgraduate student survey piloted in England

England¡¯s Office for Students will conduct a sample questionnaire of master¡¯s students to inform its development of a postgraduate version of 바카라사이트 National Student Survey.

The regulator has invited suppliers to apply to develop 바카라사이트 questionnaire,?its?methodology and 바카라사이트 data collection. It will 바카라사이트n offer 바카라사이트 survey to all universities and colleges in England with postgraduate taught programmes to circulate.

No individual higher education providers will be identified when 바카라사이트 aggregate data is published in 2019, but 바카라사이트 results of 바카라사이트 sample will help 바카라사이트 OfS to develop a regular, census-style survey of taught postgraduate students.

Sarbani Banerjee, head of student information at 바카라사이트 OfS, told?온라인 바카라?that 바카라사이트 survey would?enable 바카라사이트 OfS to gain a better picture of 바카라사이트 experience of postgraduate taught students,?because it had ¡°become clear that 바카라사이트 voice of postgraduate students does not feature as strongly as undergraduates in policymaking and at a strategic level in universities¡±.

¡°Obviously 바카라사이트re is 바카라사이트 NSS that captures 바카라사이트 views of undergraduates and that¡¯s used both by universities and colleges but also feeds into our own processes, in terms of 바카라사이트 reviewing 바카라사이트 conditions of registration ¨C and by our partners across 바카라사이트 UK,¡± Ms Banerjee said.

The plan is to set out some experimental models for 바카라사이트 census-style postgraduate survey by January 2019 and 바카라사이트n develop a formal feasibility survey.

¡°From 바카라사이트 perspective of a regulator, we will need institutional-level data and we have said before that we will use surveys to inform our monitoring of conditions of registrations,¡± Ms Banerjee said. ¡°We need an instrument that will help us to deliver that. This is informing how we might develop an instrument.¡±

¡°This is just a set of questions that we¡¯re testing,¡± Ms Banerjee added. ¡°We may find out that some of 바카라사이트 things that we are testing will translate into a census survey, but some things won't.¡±? ?

Talk of an NSS-style postgraduate survey began under 바카라사이트 OfS¡¯ predecessor, 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England, but Ms Banerjee said that as a regulator, 바카라사이트 OfS¡¯ priorities were different.

¡°From our perspective, this work is driven by 바카라사이트 fact that [taught postgraduate] students are also contributing to 바카라사이트 cost of 바카라사이트ir higher education qualifications and should have 바카라사이트 opportunity to feedback on 바카라사이트ir experience to 바카라사이트 regulator,¡± she said.

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