Surveys

Programme Level Surveys

Programme Level Surveys will be delivered to undergraduate and postgraduate taught students during their programme, unless exempt. The feedback is used to deliver holistic insights for programme leaders for the programme as whole. Quantitative data reports will be shared with Programme Leaders once the survey closes and in most cases, they will be required to meet with Programme Reps, hold a townhall style even with all students and complete the closing the feedback loop.

National Student Survey (NSS)

Northumbria University works with the Students' Union to actively encourage and promote participation in the National Student Survey (NSS). Responses are received and analysed for consideration in programme design and delivery, and allow us to benchmark our performance against the national picture. For further details on the NSS click here. 

Processing and retention of survey data

Learning & Teaching surveys are conducted as part of our contractual relationship with you as a student of Northumbria University. This means that while we are contractually permitted to send Learning and Teaching surveys to you, but are under no obligation to complete them. The University places great value in the opinion of students to enable comments and suggestions to be assessed and built into the future delivery of modules and programmes where possible.

Responses to Learning and Teaching surveys will be retained on University systems and aligned with demographic information already held by the University in order to identify key areas for enhancement with the goal of improving your experience at Northumbria University.

The University operates a ‘non-anonymous’ survey system which is confidential (i.e. your individual responses are not conveyed to any academic staff, but will be collated together in an anonymous report). However, the administrative team is able to track responses back to you should we need to delete your response as a result of a request or to reset your survey, to support data integrity within the evaluation system and potential safeguarding or welfare issues that arise from your response.

More information can be found in the Student Privacy Notice.

The University's Learning and Teaching Survey Policy can be found by internal staff here.

Students undertaking the pre-arrival questionnaire should review the participant information sheet before completing the survey.