{"id":7171,"date":"2018-02-01T08:27:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T08:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:17:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:17:06","slug":"nss-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/02\/01\/nss-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"NSS 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After about 5 years of tireless effort by NUS and others (but mainly NUS) it was agreed (by HEFCE) that the current national (HE) student survey [*] could include questions on environmental sustainability (which is an increasingly odd phrase). \u00a0The questions are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Environmental sustainability<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My institution encourages good environmental practice<\/li>\n<li>My course has encouraged me to think about environmental sustainability<\/li>\n<li>I have had opportunities to take part in activities supporting environmental sustainability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good news, you might think \u2013 and it undoubtedly is. \u00a0However, these questions are optional in the sense that institutions can select them to be asked of their students. \u00a0So how much data turn up will depend on institutional choice. \u00a0Not that any of that matters much as we shall never know which institutions select them as HEFCE will not report at that level of detail.<\/p>\n<p>However, I hope NUS will encourage student unions to encourage institutions with good sustainability records to go for this option. \u00a0And then to try to get hold of the data by the back door.<\/p>\n<p>The wording that HEFCE is to use was not quite what NUS proposed. \u00a0This was:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>My institution encourages good environmental practice<\/li>\n<li>My studies have encouraged me to think about environmental sustainability in the context of my subject<\/li>\n<li>I took part in environmental sustainability activities<\/li>\n<li>I intend to use what I have learned to support environmental sustainability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You'll see that two were edited (which subtly changed meaning) and that the last one (about post-course intentions) was omitted. \u00a0It seems it did not survive the cognitive testing.<\/p>\n<p>[*]\u00a0NB, the questions are in the 2018 NSS, but the deadline to select them as an optional bank passed in November 2017 \u2013 well before NUS was told that they had been included and so had a chance to promote them. \u00a0It is likely that some institutions will have selected the questions.<\/p>\n<p>................................<\/p>\n<p>NB, I said (above) that environmental sustainability looks an increasingly odd phrase. \u00a0This is because it implies that we have have\u00a0environmental sustainability without thinking about social\u00a0aspects or economic ones. \u00a0But it looks even odder now, given the emphasis which is placed on the sustainable development goals where social justice issues are so prominent a feature.<\/p>\n<p>Time for another NUS campaign ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After about 5 years of tireless effort by NUS and others (but mainly NUS) it was agreed (by HEFCE) that the current national (HE) student survey [*] could include questions on environmental sustainability (which is an increasingly odd phrase). \u00a0The...<\/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-7171","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\/7171","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=7171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}