National Student Survey 2021: Publication of data

This publication provides information on the plans for the publication of the 2021 National Student Survey (NSS) results.

The NSS is managed by the Office for Students (OfS) on behalf of the UK funding and regulatory bodies – the Department for the Economy (Northern Ireland), the Scottish Funding Council and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.

Ref:: OfS 2021.16
Date:: 7 June 2021

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Information on the plans for the publication of the 2021 National Student Survey (NSS) results.

NSS 2021 publication of data - Update

The OfS and the UK funding and regulatory bodies have made the following outstanding decisions on the way the NSS 2021 data will be presented:

Alongside the NSS 2021 results, an average agreement rate based on the results from 2019, 2020 and 2021, with each year weighted evenly, will be published.
The 2021 statistics will be based purely on 2021 data.
NHS placement questions will not published as part of the NSS data on the OfS website. Providers will be able to receive their own responses to these questions through the NSS Results Portal.

29 June 2021

Please note: This document was updated on 10 June to clarify that the COVID-19 question results will not be published at provider level, and that the rest of the NSS data will be published in the same way as in previous years.

Published 07 June 2021
Last updated 29 June 2021 + show all updates

29 June 2021: Decisions confirmed on the way the data will be presented.
10 June 2021: Clarification added around publication of COVID-19 question results

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