This is the sixth year NUS has run the annual Sustainability Skills survey, which has received more than 30,000 respondents in total. Over the six years, despite massive changes within higher education, student demand for sustainability has remained consistently high.
This year, for the first time, the survey covered FE students, and found:
Rob Young, NUS Vice President (Society and Citizenship) said: "The survey data sends a clear, positive message that students in HE and FE care about sustainability, and want to learn more about it, and that they want be a part of the solution to our unsustainable society"
You can read the full report here.
Through the survey we ask students whether they agree with various statements relating to their university or college.
This year we included two new questions to gauge student perceptions on how their institution is doing on sustainability, and how it is impacting on them as individuals.
The intention is to repeat these questions each year so we can track perceptions on institutional performance.
The two tables below present the ten institutions that got the highest percentage of positive perception from their students for each of the two questions. NB: We have only included universities that got over 100 responses (* indicates representative sample size for the student population at this institution).
University |
% that agree with the statement |
Total responses |
University of Sheffield |
83% |
394* |
Manchester Metropolitan University |
83% |
487*
|
Newcastle University |
80% |
137
|
Nottingham Trent University |
80% |
126
|
University of Brighton |
80% |
216
|
Courtauld Institute of Art |
80% |
261*
|
Plymouth University |
78% |
776*
|
University of Gloucestershire |
76% |
205
|
University of Worcester |
75% |
585*
|
University of Bristol |
72% |
130
|
University / college |
% that agree with the statement |
Total responses |
University of Brighton |
70% |
216
|
Courtauld Institute of Art |
67% |
259*
|
Newcastle University |
67% |
137
|
University of Sheffield |
66% |
395*
|
University of Bristol |
65% |
130
|
Leeds City College |
64% |
119
|
Manchester Metropolitan University |
62% |
487*
|
Nottingham Trent University |
60% |
126
|
University of Greenwich |
59% |
332
|
Plymouth University |
58% |
771*
|
Rob Young, added: "Thank you to all the institutions that helped us promote the survey to their students. Well done to those institutions that appear in the tables above. Your students think you are doing well on sustainability, and influencing them to act on sustainability."