This is a look by provider – if there is a gap in your chart this quite often shows a successful student NSS boycott!

We’re always told not to build long time series, but I figure it is safe enough to compare the old (Q22) and the new (Q27) overall satisfaction question – and I’ll keep doing this with whatever the question ends up being next time round. Overall satisfaction is down from the pre-pandemic trend, but (in most cases – not sure what is happening at Manchester, for instance…) up from the 2021 trough. As the value of (SLC) fee and (funding body) grant income declines over the next few years staff availability will fall again as the staff-student ratio rises, and this problem will get worse. These are the kind of places that will have been popular with applicants, and over-recruited in the 20 cycles. What is striking here is that these are large, well-known, providers.

Mousing over a dot changes the display at the bottom to show all responses to all questions from the provider in question. You can select a question, subject (CAH2), and level of interest at the top, and highlight a provider of interest. Something of a Wonkhe signature, the top chart here shows % disagree rather than the agreement rates more usually used – we feel that students actively expressing unhappiness is a more important signal (the modal response overall is usually a 4). Among nursing students at Birmingham, nearly half disagreed that they had received sufficient advice and guidance and more than 40 per cent disagreed that they had received helpful comments on their work. More than a third of medical students at St George’s did not feel the advice and guidance they had received was sufficient. More than 60 per cent of medical students at Nottingham disagreed that their course was well organised and running smoothly. Big names, big disagreementĪt which providers are nursing and medical students particularly unhappy? Scale 4 is the canary in this particular coalmine – and most subject groups are down by at least 6 percentage points from the previous standards. The cohort responding to this year’s NSS have seen their experience worsen over three years, with two bumper years of recruitment pushing staff and physical capacity to breaking point. Though this is great news for the UK – we urgently need more doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals – the capacity of the departments and faculties they were joining did not grow at the same time. Changes to the way level 3 qualifications were awarded made for more people getting the grades than ever before – leading to record-breaking cohort sizes. We don’t get these splits by provider – at least, not until the TEF data is published.ĭuring and beyond the worst moments of the pandemic we saw a huge surge of interest among applicants in health-care related courses. This chart also allows you to view information on responses to questions by characteristic groups at a sector level.

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