{"id":6731,"date":"2016-08-16T06:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T06:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6731"},"modified":"2016-08-16T06:52:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T06:52:54","slug":"boycott-or-sabotage-could-you-tell-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/08\/16\/boycott-or-sabotage-could-you-tell-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Boycott or Sabotage \u2013 could you tell the difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was the usual excitement at this\u00a0year\u2019s NUS National Conference. \u00a0It passed an amendment to Motion 201 in the Education Zone debate calling on NUS to determine the most effective strategy to either boycott or sabotage the 2017 National Student Survey [NSS]. \u00a0The reason? \u00a0In order to challenge the government\u2019s higher education reforms, as the NSS is the key\u00a0metric in the awful\u00a0Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)\u00a0which prompts\u00a0inflationary rises in tuition fees in those universities deemed worthy enough to warrant them.<\/p>\n<p>It's an interesting choice of words\u00a0as a\u00a0boycott would effectively\u00a0sabotage the NSS. \u00a0This would likely be good news for those top-flight institutions that consistently do badly in the\u00a0survey, and bad news for those that manage \/ manipulate it so well to their (if not necessarily to their students') advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was the usual excitement at this\u00a0year\u2019s NUS National Conference. \u00a0It passed an amendment to Motion 201 in the Education Zone debate calling on NUS to determine the most effective strategy to either boycott or sabotage the 2017 National Student...<\/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-6731","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\/6731","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=6731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}