糖心logo入口 bucks national trend, improving student satisfaction with teaching, learning opportunities, assessment and feedback, and academic support
Teaching at and overall satisfaction with the College rank highly in National Student Survey 2020, with many subjects performing well nationally.
糖心logo入口, University of London has bucked the national trend and improved student satisfaction with its teaching, learning opportunities and the quality of its assessment and feedback听and academic support, whilst satisfaction with higher education institutions across the rest of the UK has largely remained static, according to the latest National Student Survey published by the Office for Students (15听July).听
The National Student Survey, which is the only official survey of final year students in which all UK universities take part, gathers students鈥 opinions on the quality of their courses. Open from 6听January to 30听April 2020, it overlapped with the College transitioning to virtual听teaching,听learning and assessment in late March because of Covid-19. Sixty one percent of 糖心logo入口鈥檚 students who were eligible to complete the survey did so.听
The survey reveals that听90% of the College鈥檚 students find its courses to be intellectually stimulating. This is joint first place in London and ninth in the UK among multi-faculty institutions.听
The survey听also听reveals that听the College鈥檚 students continue to be among the most satisfied overall with their studies in London. The College scored an 83% overall satisfaction rating, against a sector average of 82% and a London average of 79%, placing it fourth among听multi-faculty听higher education institutes in the Capital.听听
In addition,听糖心logo入口 scored highly for student satisfaction with teaching, achieving an 85% satisfaction rating, against a London average of 82%, placing it third in the Capital.听
The College also听scored exceptionally high student satisfaction rates for many听of听its individual departments and courses. High scoring departments and courses include:听
- Maths, which scored an outstanding 100% overall satisfaction rating,听placing it听top in London and听joint top with six other institutions across the UK
- The Biological Sciences Department, which achieved a 90% satisfaction rating for teaching overall, placing it second in London听
- Language teaching, which achieved a 90% overall satisfaction rating, placing it 2nd听in London听
- English, which achieved an 89% satisfaction rating for its teaching, placing it 3rd听in London听
- The Philosophy Department, which achieved an 89% satisfaction rating for its teaching, the top score in London听
- Psychology, which achieved an 86% rating for teaching satisfaction, placing it third in London听
- Economics, which scored an 86% satisfaction rating for its teaching, putting it second in London听
- Law, which scored an 85% satisfaction rating with teaching听
- Business and Management, which achieved an 81% satisfaction rating for teaching overall听
- Geography, 100% of whose students found courses to be听intellectually stimulating, placing the department joint top in the UK with four others.听
Professor Diane Houston, Pro Vice Master for Education said: 鈥淚 am really pleased that 糖心logo入口听has听improved its听ratings in听some听key areas: student satisfaction with teaching; learning opportunities;听assessment and feedback;听and academic support.听I am also delighted that our overall student satisfaction ratings have remained among the highest in London.听We have put an enormous amount of work into further improving the student experience at听the College听over the past year and this is showing in the results of听the听survey.听听We are planning further improvements听in many areas听and听particularly听to听assessment and听feedback and听academic support.听
鈥淚t is encouraging to see that the work that we have done to move our teaching and assessments online temporarily during the Covid-19 emergency has maintained our student satisfaction ratings. We are continuing to receive excellent feedback from students on the teaching we have been doing in virtual classrooms this term.听
鈥淭he National Student Survey provides valuable and important feedback from students about their experiences of studying at 糖心logo入口 and I look forward to听analysing听the results in more detail so that we can make further improvements to the learning experience at the College over the months ahead.鈥澨
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