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 - Updates

Paragraph 5 of the above document says, 'We are considering what further contextualisation may be helpful in the presentation of the 2021 survey result.'

Paragraph 7 states, 'The OfS and the UK funding and regulatory bodies continue to make some decisions around the publication of data. We will inform the sector of any substantial changes in advance of data publication.'

We have now received confirmation of the way the data will be presented.

The following decisions have been made:

Alongside the NSS 2021 results, the average agreement rate will be published. This will be based on the results from 2019, 2020 and 2021, with each year weighted evenly.
2021 statistics will be based purely on 2021 data, which will mean slightly more suppressions (i.e. results not published because they do not meet response thresholds).
NHS placement questions which collect very limited data will not be published, but simply shared with providers for their own information.

23 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Please note: This document was updated on 10 June to clarify that the COVID-19 question results will not be published at provider level, and that the rest of the NSS data will be published in the same way as in previous years.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 10 June 2021 + show all updates

10 June 2021: Clarification added around publication of COVID-19 question results

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