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The Spotted History of the NSS

Post author By Eilidh Johnson
Post date August 11, 2022

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Started in 2005, the National Student Survey (NSS) is a yearly national study aimed at final year undergraduate students with the aim to gather students’ views on their courses. Whilst it remains a key source of data on student opinion, to say it is without flaw would be misguided. From its links to the controversial […]

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University of Edinburgh boycotts 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework

Post author By Molly Sandford-Ward and Mei Futonaka
Post date January 31, 2017
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The University of Edinburgh has joined several other Scottish universities in choosing not to be entered into the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), an initiative newly introduced by the UK government to assess universities on their teaching quality. The TEF, which ranks higher education institutions gold, silver, or bronze, uses three main metrics to assess teaching: […]

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