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Campuses including Oxford and Cambridge hit by TEF protest. Jack Grove reports
Several major higher education institutions, including the universities of Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford and Sheffield, fail to feature in this year's National Student Survey table after a student boycott in protest over England's teaching excellence framework.
Eleven English universities, also including University College London, Bristol, Liverpool and King's College London, and one Scottish institution have been omitted from the main results of the nationwide student satisfaction survey, published on 9 August, after fewer than 50 per cent of their final-year undergraduates completed the questionnaire.
Overall, about 300,000 students responded to the survey, down from 312,000 in 2016, with the response rate dropping from 72 per cent to 68 per cent.
It follows the decision by about 25 students' unions to participate in a National Union of Students boycott of the NSS. The boycott came about after it was announced that, as of this year, the teaching excellence framework will use...