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Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Student satisfaction results rise again at Essex

This year’s National Student Survey (NSS) results, released today, indicate eighty-eight per cent of Essex students expressed overall satisfaction with their course. This is up by three per cent on last year and is five per cent above the national average of 83 per cent.

Plus three of our departments; Art History and Theory, Psychoanalytic Studies and Philosophy achieved 100 per cent overall satisfaction ratings!

Find out more here.

Monday, 9 August 2010

World goes online to watch Essex graduation ceremonies!

For the first time ever, the University streamed footage of this years graduation event live online! Analysis by the Web and Learning Technology team shows over the three days of graduation there were more than 17,000 hits on the website.

Figures also reveal people were watching online in more than 70 countries and the viewer furthest from the Colchester Campus - where the graduation ceremonies took place - was watching nearly 19,000km away in Christchurch, New Zealand.


See full article here.