This week sees the publication of the 2015 National Student Survey (NSS) on the Unistats site. Higher Education institutions will have been poring over the data for days in order to find something in the survey responses where they have either improved a score, improved a rank position or exceeded the sector average - anything that will persuade this year's crop of A level students (results also out this week) that THEIR institution is the best place to go.......
Of course, the NSS says much about how closely the institutions have met the high expectations of students, even how much the students, in their crucial final year as an undergraduate, feel "satisfied". It says little, however, about the quality of learning and teaching.
Listen to this excellent talk by Professor Graham Gibbs on Youtube. The talk is based on his HEA reports on "Dimensions of Quality" - strangely unavailable from the HEA website at the time of blogging - but do keep trying.
Will the much heralded Teaching Excellence Framework learn these lessons? Quality of Learning has little to do with satisfaction, less to do with Technology but much to do with the engagement of both students and staff.
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