Both the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) 2013 and Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) will shortly be opened to our students to feed back about their experience on our postgraduate programmes. For the first time this year, the University will be running both surveys simultaneously.
- The PTES target list is drawn from all postgraduate certificates, diplomas, or Masters course with a taught element, that is, MPhils examined by thesis and oral-only are excluded.
- Postgraduate students on a Research only programme will be eligible to take part in the PRES.
The surveys and students’ participation are really important to the University. PTES and PRES are the only national surveys to gather taught and research postgraduate students’ opinions about their experience at university. It lets us gather information systematically about students’ experience on their postgraduate course, compare our results against the national average, and help us start exploring where we might enhance their experience and the appeal of our courses in future. No league tables are produced; the ethos of the survey is very much about informing educational enhancement.
The results are only valuable if our students take part. PTES last ran at Cambridge in 2012, with a response rate of 48.2%; the 2011 PRES achieved a response rate of 53.9%. With the help of Faculties and Departments we hope this year to improve on this and reach 50% for PTES and 60% for PRES. Please can we ask you to make your students aware of the survey and why completing the survey is important.
Both surveys will open on 4th March and will run until 16th May. They shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes to complete. All eligible students will receive an email early next week asking them to complete the relevant survey, and containing their own username and password to gain access (as well as follow-up reminders throughout the survey period until they have completed it).
To find out more about PTES and PRES 2013, please visit http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/surveys, or contact Sophie Dubillot (sophie.dubillot@admin.cam.ac.uk).
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