This is the third and final article that looks at the institution NSS 2015 results for timetabling related questions, this time taking a look at the Q15: The course is well organised and is running smoothly results. This is the final question within the “Organisation and management” section of the NSS questions and again timetabling is very likely to be a prominent factor that impacts on the students scoring for this question.

As with before only those institutions that have received +250 student responses via the NSS survey have been included within the tables shown below, however links have been provided below the tables that include all of the results.

Those institutions with less than 250 students have been removed so that those with larger cohorts of students can compare their results against other institutions of similar size.

This first table highlights those institutions that [Read more…]

Following on from last week’s article, this article looks at the top 20 institutions for NSS question 14; “Any changes in the course or teaching have been communicated effectively” as well as the top 20 improved institutions. Timetabling is typically regarded as one of the key factors that affect this question, due to the communication of timetabling changes and the effectiveness of this process directly affecting the students. Therefore any positive and negative timetable communication impacts are very likely to be reflected within the results for this question.

As with before only those institutions that have received +250 student responses via the NSS survey have been included within the tables shown below, however links have been provided below the tables that include all of the results.

Those institutions with less than 250 students have been removed so that those with larger cohorts of students can compare their results against other institutions of similar size.

This first table highlights those institutions [Read more…]