• Mental health and social work are above benchmark for every theme and are one of the best performing departments in the university

• Education are above benchmark for every theme

• Nursing and Midwifery are above benchmark for every question aside from:

  • Organisation and Management

  • Students Union

• All programmes level or above benchmark for Teaching on my course

• The FdSc Nursing Associate Programme is the departments top performer and is above benchmark for all themes and above benchmark my 5% or more for all themes including satisifaction at 95%

• Questions with more than two programme 5% + below benchmark are:

  • Organisation and management

• Child and Vet Nursing with notable improvements and Child Nursing achieving 93% positivity overall.

• Mental Health Nursing is above benchmark for all themes

• The top performing programme is BSc Nursing (mental Health), which is above benchmark by 5% on all themes and in some cases by 20%.

• Questions with more than two programme 5% + below benchmark are none but social work is below in the following:

  • Mental wellbeing services
  • Organisation and management is level for Ba Social work

• All programmes level or above benchmark for all themes except for:

  • Student union,

  • Student Voice,

  • Organisation and management

• The department top performer is FdA learning and teaching which has all questions above benchmark and have the following at 100% :

  • Academic Support

  • Orgainsation and Management

  • Teaching on my course

• Questions with more than two programme 5% + below benchmark are none, although Education Studies and Early Childhood studies are slightly below benchmark (1 or 2%) in the following themes:

  • Students union.
  • Student voice.
  • Organisation and management.

General comments:

• This is a continued improvement from last year with several programme now in amongst the highest performing in the university.

• These results indicate the faculty is largely in line or above the benchmark and well above MDX average in places.

• Top performer goes to the MHSWK department for being over benchmark on all themes and by 20% for some themes.

• Special thanks to everyone as we are now the only faculty which is above benchmark for all the NSS themes.

Actions for this year based on NSS results with some repeated from from last year:

1. Ensure year 2 cohorts moving into year 3, receive a positive induction, including outlining where the following areas have been completed:

Whilst organisation of our courses has improved it is still the weakest areas for the faculty

2. Outline for the students a organisation of the programme including assessment schedules and when assessment feedback is taking place

3. Where work has been completed or is ongoing on the learning community & student voice development:

• Sign post our Mental well-being services and students union where possible, and student study support through LET

• Work with timetable team to make timetables as student centred as possible and group allocation is accurate from week 1 and how the new semesters are managed.

• Promote teaching observations with staff and promote this to students that this is being completed, so they are aware teaching and learning quality is always being developed.