2012 National Student Survey: Reminder of embargoed publication of data

To:

Heads of HEFCE-funded further education colleges, Heads of HEFCE-funded higher education institutions, Heads of universities in Northern Ireland
Heads of Student Unions

Of interest to those responsible for:

The National Student Survey; Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement; Planning; The Student Experience, Press and marketing officers

Dear Vice-Chancellor or Principal

1. This letter follows HEFCE Circular letter 16/2012 which provided information to institutions on the publication of data from the 2012 National Student Survey (NSS), including a timetable of when institutions will be able to access their 2012 NSS results via the Ipsos MORI NSS results site and Unistats web-site.

2. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that all the NSS data will be under embargo from 3 August when Ipsos MORI will launch Phase 1 of the NSS results site (giving you access to your own data) (http://www.ipsos-mori.com/nss/results) until 27 September. From 17 September institutions will have the usual Phase 2 preview of all institutions’ NSS data, via the Ipsos MORI results site. Also on the 17 September institutions will be able to preview the new KIS/Unistats web-site (url and password details to follow). Please note that this embargo also applies to all data on the new KIS/Unistats site, and which institutions can access as part of the KIS submission process.

3. On 27 September the Unistats web-site will be live and HEFCE will publish a statement about this on our web-site.  Further details about this will be circulated to communications contacts via HEFCE’s ‘pr-hefce’ jiscmail list nearer the time.

4. Institutions will have access to their own data from 3 August and will be able to use this for their internal planning and enhancement purposes. Publication of the data either on public web-sites or for other marketing purposes will be a breach of the embargo.

5. If you have any queries regarding the Ipsos MORI results site please contact the Ipsos MORI team (tel 020 8861 8110, e-mail nss@ipsos.com).  If you have any queries regarding data uploads to the Unistats web-site please contact liaison@hesa.ac.uk (higher education institutions) or kis@hefce.ac.uk (further education institutions). If your query relates to communications please contact Helen Albon h.albon@hefce.ac.uk or Philip Walker p.walker@hefce.ac.uk

Summary timetable

	NSS results site	Unistats site
3 August	Phase 1 NSS data available under embargo
17 September	Phase 2 NSS data available under embargo	Preview data of all institutions’ data
27 September		KIS/Unistats available to the public and embargo lifted

 

Yours sincerely

 

Sir Alan Langlands

Chief Executive

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