Boycotting The NSS
Features Editor, Yasmeen, interviews Non - one of the organisers of the NSS Boycott on campus.
So, obviously the main question we have for you is why are you boycotting the National Student Survey (NSS)?
Well we’re boycotting the NSS because it’s instrumental to fee increases in coming years. This is because the results from the NSS will go towards ranking universities in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). So TEF is basically a ranking system where universities will get awarded a ranking of either bronze, silver, or gold, and will be able to increase their fees in line with their medal. If our university successfully boycotts the NSS, a successful boycott being the university gets a response rate of 50% or less, then there will be incomplete data for TEF and our university ...