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The annual Student Experience Survey is a litmus test of student engagement, satisfaction and educational quality. But the survey’s categories of study no longer match the post-COVID experience.
Year-round academic and extracurricular opportunities that encourage cultural exchange between international students, their peers and the wider society are important.
The new ‘Screenomatic’ model can protect students and academics, while still providing useful feedback.
Students’ evaluations can be very personal and many factors can skew survey responses. But surveys can be designed to produce more valid and reliable results that could be used to improve teaching.
Student experience or satisfaction surveys are not a reliable guide to teaching performance. Even worse, anonymous survey responses are at times little better than university-facilitated hate speech.
Before the pandemic, only a fraction of students made use of the wide range of curricular and extracurricular experiential learning opportunities, but through online engagement that can change.
While many military veterans do well on campus, not everyone feels welcome or their views matter. Here’s what universities can do better.
Despite heavy investment by universities, student experience of feedback higher education continues to be less than desirable, especially for at-risk students.
What students want is becoming more important than what univerisites want to teach them.
Chinese universities have started to rise up the world university rankings, increase their investment in research and grow their numbers of international student. Should Australia be worried?
UK universities should take note from US colleges and cultivate more of a university spirit.
Students need to have an educational incentive not to skip class, rather than just being scare of Big Brother.
The proposal for a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) announced by universities and science minister Jo Johnson in early July that would recognise “excellent teaching” and “make good teaching better…
As more people around the world head to university, the quality of teaching and research is coming under tighter scrutiny.
Reading bullet points off a screen doesn’t teach anyone anything.
It is now as close to a consensus as makes no difference that the current regime for funding higher education in England through high fees paid by students – or repaid by some graduates – is bust. Lord…
It’s come as a surprise to many in higher education: students are increasingly satisfied with their experience of English university. A new report published by the Higher Education Funding Council for…
The recent University Alliance report on quality in higher education brings into sharp focus one of the major issues facing contemporary UK higher education: how we ensure that the sector maintains its…
New students entering university this year will embark on a path that will require a great deal of emotional and financial investment. The pay-off they expect is not just the experience or entry-level…
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