NSS may be fatally wounded by limbo year, experts fear

The NSS has little integrity as it is... it's incredibly flawed and it baffles me quite why so much attention is paid to it anyway! The questions are so poor that it provides minimal information to help universities improve delivery in any meaningful way. Students who are stretched and challenged intellectually may rate the experience as less satisfactory than those who are allowed to drift gently through their courses - but they benefit much more from it!

'It was also “ethically…difficult for institutions to ‘sell’ the survey to students, when it is not clear if institutions will receive data of any statistical use, if it will feed into league tables, comparison websites or the TEF [teaching excellence framework]”.' It is bold to assume that it yields data of any statistical use in normal years.