In week 43 (25-31 October), the Danish Student Survey will begin. The survey will be sent to students on all Danish higher education degree programmes by the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science. Students are encouraged to complete the survey, which is important to AU’s ongoing quality assurance of the study and teaching environment.

2021.10.27 | Sinne B. Jakobsen

Tthe Danish Student Survey is sent to students by the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science

When students at AU open their e-Boks and AU inbox in week 43, they will be met by the Danish Student Survey. The survey will take the pulse of the academic and social study environment on Danish higher education degree programmes. Students will be asked about their academic and social well-being, their teaching outcomes, experiences with stress and loneliness, sexism and much more.

The Danish Student Survey is a new title that the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science will be using as a general term for the student surveys they send out every other year, and which they use for the Learning Questionnaire and the online tool to compare degree programmes Degree Programme Zoom.

Teachers are asked to encourage their students to complete the questionnaires. The students’ responses are important for Aarhus University, because the results will be used in ongoing quality assurance of the study and teaching environment.

About the Danish Student Survey

• The Danish Student Survey will be sent to students on Danish higher education degree programmes by the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science.
• The survey will be conducted by Epinion and will be sent as an electronic questionnaire to students in e-Boks and via AU email – the first time in week 43. The deadline for replying to the questionnaire is 15 December, and the results are expected to be published in spring 2022.
• In future, the Danish Student Survey will be carried out every other year, and AU will use the responses in ongoing quality assurance of the study and teaching environment. Every three years, the results will form the basis for AU's assessment of the teaching environment – next time in 2023.
• Up to 2017, AU carried out its own study environment survey, and in 2020 the survey was integrated into the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science’s surveys for the first time. The 2020 results form the basis for the assessment of the teaching environment currently followed up on at degree programme level.

Read more about the student survey at https://studerende.au.dk/en/student-survey/ (updated regularly).