‘Radical’ review for NSS as ministers say it drives down standards

About time too the NSS is a waste of money and the worst Universities for academic standards do best in it GO FIGURE tell all the students they are great, give them high grades and mickey mouse exams and you get a high NSS score. Try to educate them, challenge them, set them difficult exams and be fairly tough with marking the STUDENTS COMPLAIN and you get a low NSS. Any dimwit can work this out so the real question is why has the NSS score been allowed to influence UK academia so much ???

By the way good riddance to Athena Swan compulsory accreditation as well. It is a scheme to give you bronze first, then pay more to get the silver and then pay more to get the gold. Dreamed up by another load of bureaucrats as a jobs creation scheme.= for themselves.

The NSS is poorly constructed and asks the wrong questions. It is also given FAR too much weight by the government and even by universities themselves.