The UK Engagement Survey supported institutions through:
- critical data that informed enhancements to your learning and teaching;
- confidential and sophisticated benchmarking helping understand how institutions compare with peers and competitors; and
- the opportunity to include additional NSS questions, specific to institutional priorities.
What is the UK Engagement Survey?
A critical tool for improving student success
The amount of time and effort students invest in their studies and how students engage with learning is closely linked to their level of academic achievement. UKES was designed to help get to the heart of this critical issue.
Unlike the National Student Survey (NSS), which collects data in an undergraduate student’s final year, the UK Engagement Survey took place across all years of an undergraduate degree. This allowed time to reflect on student responses and implement changes that benefit students while they remain at the institution. It also offers a completely different perspective on questions of quality and true diagnostic potential.
Final Reports
We developed the UK Engagement Survey (UKES) to help your institution understand and improve students’ engagement with their studies. The survey used selected questions from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), which is widely used in the United States and around the world, alongside questions developed specifically for the UK.
The Final Reports are available to download here and contain some very interesting and useful reading
- 2022 UK Engagement Survey
- 2021 UK Engagement Survey
- 2020 UK Engagement Survey
- 2019 UK Engagement Survey
- 2018 UK Engagement Survey
- 2017 UK Engagement Survey: Student participation and skills gain
- 2016 UK Engagement Survey: Student engagement and skills development
- 2015 UK Engagement Survey: Students’ perceptions of skills development
- UK Engagement Survey Pilot 2014
- UK Engagement Survey Pilot 2013
Testimonials
It’s really important that students aren’t just seen as passive consumers of their education but as partners. The [UK] Engagement Survey really puts their engagement with their studies at the heart of that.
Shaun Stephenson-McGall, Student Engagement Manager, University of Bath
What the UKES offers, and this is very similar to what happened with NSSE in the states, is it offers a completely different perspective on questions of quality. Particularly, it offers a counterpoint to the discourse about reputation and satisfaction, to really focus more on matters of teaching and learning.
Alex McCormick, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
Other surveys
Working with the Insights team
Advance HE’s Insights team is made up of experienced mixed-method researchers and experts in implementing surveys and other techniques for data collection. Our expert team can provide, qualitative, quantitative or mixed-methods offers, underpinned by sector-wide datasets from our student surveys and our sector leading higher education statistical reports. Whether you’re a sector agency, institute, university or another organisation with a higher education offer we will work with you to help higher education be the best that it can be.
