“We really benefit from the Barometer. When you have a hyper-complex organisation like Oxford, you need one survey tool that can satisfy multiple stakeholder needs. The Barometer does it and it does it brilliantly… we can find meaningful data at almost every level of the university.”
Jonathan Gordon, Student Information Manager
"The ISB provides fantastic insight into our International Students regarding decision factors, expectations, concerns as well as tendency to recommend. The results not only allow us to measure our overall performance against benchmark institutions, but will allow us to make better informed decisions to enhance the overall international student experience at DMU."
Chris McCafferty, International Planning Manager
"Having participated in the ISB since 2005, we recognise the value of reaching out to international students to understand what we need to do to deliver an experience comparable to the best in the world. Gathering the views of international students has never been more important, considering how the pandemic has forced us to rethink how we deliver education and the wider student experience. The views our students share with us now will help to shape and inform what we deliver in ways we would never have imagined previously for many years to come."
Fiona O'Carroll, Deputy Director International
“We wanted to draw that line in the sand to show where we're currently working from, and to give indications as to how we can improve over the next couple of years.”
Sally Lambah, Student Advice and Guidance Manager, and Zack Vaughan-Allen, Engagement and Support Officer
“We need to listen to our international students, their voice, how they're feeling. The ISB will absolutely provide us with those KPIs that we want to incorporate into our strategy. Moving forwards, the ISB really underpins our student experience – it will help shape it – it will be a litmus test to get a sense of what students are feeling as they go along that journey with us. In five years’ time we will be a different institution altogether.”
Christopher Sharpe, Director of International and Partnerships
“University-wide, people recognise this isn’t ‘just another survey’ - there’s an awful lot it can tell us. This is right up there with the most important pieces of information-gathering that we undertake as an institution, and it’s represented in the university KPIs. It’s something we’ve been able to perform consistently in and that’s a result of it being taken so seriously, not just by us, but by everybody in the university.”
George Hunt, Director of International Development
Our data and research has been used by the following organisations to improve the understanding and development of the student experience.
Benchmarking the student experience at UK & Ireland Higher Education institutions against global performance in 2023.
An analysis of student feedback on discrimination and inclusivity policies within UK universities
Creating impactful student support networks at Wrexham Glyndwr University