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Personal Growth & Skill Development
Distribution of responses
How institutions vary
Middle 80% of the 60 institutions with enough responses. Personal domain mean: 7.6.
Institution is a major factor here: weaker and stronger institutions are 2.7 points apart on this topic. Where a student studies shapes their experience more than the topic itself does.
What we ask
“My studies help me grow academically and personally.”
What students say, and why
Self-doubt and fear of failing; for some, lost belief they can finish.
"The school has made me lose faith that I can get through the programme."
"Expectations are too high, and I’m afraid I’ll fail when it really counts."
Knowing the trade, and being okay with not-always-perfect.
"I know my subject and I’m interested in doing well."
"Doing as well as I can, and being okay that sometimes it can’t be perfect."
Representative, de-identified comments from the lowest- and highest-scoring responses, translated where needed.
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How we measure it
This is the topic-level average across its subtopics, on a 0-10 scale (higher is better), so an individual subtopic can score higher or lower than the topic shown here. Figures are scored responses from the last 12 months, mapped to the 2026 framework via the canonical question mapping; the cross-2020 figure on the Index uses the full response base. Movement compares the most recent six months with the prior six. Distribution bands: 0-4, >4-<8, 8-10. Cross-institution aggregate; no single institution identified; minimum group size applied.
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