{"id":6687,"date":"2016-06-09T07:29:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T07:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2016-06-09T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T07:29:20","slug":"sustainability-and-the-nss-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/06\/09\/sustainability-and-the-nss-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability and the NSS survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've written <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/03\/03\/more-on-sustainability-and-the-national-student-survey\/\">before<\/a> about valiant attempts to insert some real-world questions about sustainability into the UK's national student survey within universities. \u00a0It's all come to naught, it seems as Hefce hunkers (or is that bunkers?) down to\u00a0concentrate on <em>core questions<\/em>; any\u00a0optional question banks\u00a0might be thought about \"at another time\", it seems. \u00a0Fat chance.<\/p>\n<p>The core questions, in question, are those which allow institutions to demonstrate on how good they are at basics, and there's no sense in risking everything by having questions about peripherals.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Hefce, where have all\u00a0your yesterdays gone and all those bright tomorrows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've written before about valiant attempts to insert some real-world questions about sustainability into the UK's national student survey within universities. \u00a0It's all come to naught, it seems as Hefce hunkers (or is that bunkers?) down to\u00a0concentrate on core questions;...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}