{"id":7288,"date":"2018-07-30T05:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T05:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7288"},"modified":"2018-07-30T05:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T05:02:34","slug":"those-optional-nss-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/07\/30\/those-optional-nss-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Those optional NSS questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the NUS, there is now an optional bank of questions on sustainability in the UK's National Student Survey [NSS]. \u00a0It has taken five years or so to get them there, and they have changed a bit on their journey (see my earlier\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/\">blog<\/a> for some background to this). \u00a0Jamie Agombar said he assumes that these changes arose from testing with students and the funding council\u2019s consultation survey on this a few years back. \u00a0NUS sees having questions on sustainability in the NSS as a helpful way of mainstreaming the agenda in institution and it has to be right about that.<\/p>\n<p>Institutions need to select 6 of these 13 optional banks, although data from them will only be fed back to each institution, rather than published nationally which, while understandable, is a pity.<\/p>\n<p>The sustainability questions are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>My institution encourages good environmental practice<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>My course has encouraged me to think about environmental sustainability<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I have had opportunities to take part in activities supporting environmental sustainability<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a set of questions these have a lot going for them as they cover institutional practice, the student experience of courses and student participation. \u00a0Personally, I'd have liked a further question; something like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>My institution's senior leadership really understands the crucial role that HE has to play in\u00a0working towards a more sustainable world<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What would your 4th question be?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the NUS, there is now an optional bank of questions on sustainability in the UK's National Student Survey [NSS]. \u00a0It has taken five years or so to get them there, and they have changed a bit on their...<\/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-7288","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\/7288","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=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}