The impact of part-time staff on Art & Design students' ratings of their programmes

• Published in: Journal of higher education policy and management Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 557 - 567
• Main Author: Yorke, Mantz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 01.10.2014; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Academic staff; Art & Design; Art Education; Colleges & universities; Comparative Analysis; Correlation; Data analysis; Data quality; Design; Design education; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Humanities; institutional management; National Student Survey; National Student Survey (NSS); National Surveys; NSS; Part Time Employment; Part Time Faculty; part-time staff; Performing arts; Student Attitudes; Student evaluation of teacher performance; student ratings; Student Surveys; Theater Arts; United Kingdom; University students; Workforce planning; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK
• ISSN: 1360-080X; 1469-9508
• DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2014.936095

Art & Design receives ratings on a number of scales of the UK's National Student Survey (NSS) that are less strong than those for some other subject areas. Art & Design, along with performing arts, is characterised by a relatively high level of part-time (PT) staffing. PT staffing data are set against NSS ratings for post-92 universities and other institutions that specialise in studio-based programmes in Art & Design. The data from Art & Design are compared with data from selected subject areas, showing that for both Art & Design and performing arts higher levels of PT staffing are associated with lower NSS ratings. The quality of the available data and the implications of the analyses are discussed.