Vikki,
Given the past years experience I'm sure any gains the planning group
could make with respect to the NSS issues would be most welcome. We had
some problems at the start of the survey with MORI reporting a list of
bounced e-mail addresses, they could not supply us with the bounced
address details which would allow our IT team to investigate the issues,
finally we issued a duplicate message to ensure our students were
properly engaged. A successful discussion would also raise the profile
of the group.
Craig
Dr Craig Hutchinson-Howorth
Director of Strategic Planning
Edge Hill University
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>>> "Goddard, Vikki" <[log in to unmask]> 23/08/2010 17:06
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Dear all,
As many of you will know, we now have a National Planners’ Group
(NPG) which is basically developing into an equivalent of ARC for the
Academic Registrars/SROC for student records. Part of the remit of the
group is intended to be to be able to raise issues of common concern in
the community and see if we can improve things. Given what seems to be
a fairly general concern about format and timing of the NSS data, it
might be helpful for the NPG to make contact with the NSS team and see
if we can improve the data formats and get more clarity over timing?
Could colleagues let me know if they think this might be helpful?
Best wishes Vikki
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Vikki Goddard
Director of Planning
The University of Liverpool
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of RANDALL Sheryl
Sent: 23 August 2010 13:37
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Subject: FW: NSS data
Hello Jennifer and All,
Please see the comment back from my Surveys team concerning the
problems you’ve been having with the release of the NSS data.
Hopefully the information below should be of help.
Regards
Sheryl
Sheryl Randall,
Director, Information and Planning
University of Northampton
Boughton Green Road
Northampton
NN2 7AL
tel: 01604 892781
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From: Haigh Robert
Sent: 20 August 2010 09:52
To: RANDALL Sheryl; Watson Jenny; Schneider Rebecca
Subject: RE: NSS data
Sheryl,
The format of the data is consistent with previous years’ releases,
and as such I can’t say I’ve had any trouble making sense of the
data. The only difference in format this year is that the NSS team have
started to report figures in relation to where students are ‘Taught’
(the Unistats standard) as well as where they are ‘Registered’. I
can see how this may cause confusion for someone who is new to the data,
but this new way of reporting was made clear a while ago.
However, I would agree with the comment on timing. For our Institution
at least, the individual tables were published in a slightly strange
order (JACS breakdowns before overall scores for comparators,
‘Registered’ data long before ‘Taught’), and the
comparators’ overall scores were delayed so much that we were
unable to prepare anything on them in time for the press release date.
If Jennifer is getting overwhelmed with the amount of spreadsheets
available, my advice would be to start with the spreadsheet named
“2010 my taught data” for you internal analysis, and the “2010
My public data” for anything that will be made public.
Regards,
Rob
Rob Haigh
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From: RANDALL Sheryl
Sent: 19 August 2010 17:33
To: Watson Jenny; Haigh Robert; Schneider Rebecca
Subject: FW: NSS data
Comments???
S.
Sheryl Randall
tel: 01604 892781
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From: Academic, financial or space planning in UK universities
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arkell J.H.
Sent: 18 August 2010 14:53
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Subject: NSS data
Hello
Is anyone else very frustrated with the format (not to mention the
timing) of the NSS data as its been released this year? We're having a
lot of problems making any sense of the 100+ spreadsheets which seem to
be a totally unhelpful mix of raw data and partial analysis, without any
thought to how institutions might wish to use the data to understand the
context in which they operate.
Any insight - particularly if you're managing to get the tables to work
for you - would be welcome.
Jennifer
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