{"id":9830,"date":"2019-01-30T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2019-01-30T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:14:02","slug":"ugs-month-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/01\/30\/ugs-month-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Survey Month 2019: what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestudentsurvey.com\/\">National Student Survey<\/a> opened this week, as part of Undergraduate Survey Month. The survey takes no longer than about 10 minutes to complete, and eligible students can enter at<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestudentsurvey.com\/\">www.thestudentsurvey.com<\/a>. <\/strong>Not all students are eligible for the the NSS, but <strong>everyone can make their voice heard<\/strong> thanks to the University\u2019s Undergraduate Survey.<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts and suggestions help us to improve your own student experience and will also help students who study at Kent in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know:<\/p>\n<h3>National Student Survey (NSS)<\/h3>\n<p>This is a national survey open to mainly final year students. Not everyone is eligible, so keep an eye on your emails &#8211; eligible students will have received an email from Programme Co-ordinators &#8211; for the link to the survey. Please complete the survey honestly and thoroughly. As a thank you for taking the time to complete the survey, <strong>the University is offering an incentive of a \u00a310 Amazon voucher<\/strong> to all students who complete the survey within the first three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the NSS \u2013 and what the University has already done in response to student feedback received in previous years \u2013 at\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/student\/surveys\/\">www.kent.ac.uk\/student\/surveys\/<\/a>. The information submitted will be anonymous and will help us understand your experience and help inform change.<\/p>\n<p>If you are eligible to fill in the NSS, and complete it before Monday 18 February, make sure you claim your free \u00a310 Amazon voucher by providing proof of completion to <strong>nssawards@kent.ac.uk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t miss out on the chance to make your voice heard, and on your guaranteed Amazon voucher!<\/p>\n<h3>Undergraduate Survey (UGS)<\/h3>\n<p>We understand that the NSS is not available for all undergraduates. Because it\u2019s important that everyone has a chance to be heard, the University is also running an Undergraduate Survey.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re eligible, you will receive an email from Professor April McMahon, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Education, during the week beginning 28 January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to find out more about the survey, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/survey\">www.kent.ac.uk\/survey.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 National Student Survey opened this week, as part of Undergraduate Survey Month. The survey takes no longer than about 10 minutes to complete, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/01\/30\/ugs-month-2019\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":9839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,18583,124,18570,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9838,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions\/9838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}