Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES)
About the survey
The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey or PTES is a national survey of postgraduate taught students and invites you to comment on your experience. The survey is open to both full-time and part-time students, from 24 April to 9 June 2023. Thanks to your feedback, we have been able to make a number of enhancements and will keep you updated as we continue to do so.
How do I access the Survey?
Simply click on the link above, or the link in the email you have been sent, to complete the online form via your personalised link. The questionnaire takes around 15 minutes to complete.
What happens to the results?
PTES is your chance to tell us your thoughts about your course. The results are used both departmentally and institutionally, to identify areas for celebration and where more work needs to be done to improve the student experience. They allow us to benchmark ourselves against the Sector and other Russell Group Universities to see how we compare for student experience. This survey is not associated with Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and does not feed into league tables.
Following the release of the results, departments will participate in an action planning activity alongside their students, enabling them to contribute to the continuous enhancement of the PGT experience at Warwick using all forms of student feedback.
PTES Incentives
We will be offering incentives for PTES this year, to encourage a healthy (and representative) response rate across all departments. All eligible students will be entered into a prize draw, with the chance of winning:
- £100 cash prize (x2)
- £50 Amazon / Love2Shop voucher (x8)
- £20 Amazon / Love2Shop voucher (x60)
What does it cover?
PTES concentrates on your course and includes:
- Teaching and learning
- Engagement
- Assessment and feedback
- Organisation and management
- Skills development
It will also include a few extra questions about issues that are particularly relevant to us and to students at Warwick.
Is it anonymous?
Your survey response is confidential to the team processing the results and no reporting outside of this team will identify any individual. Any results communicated to teaching staff will be anonymised.
The survey asks that any comments you make should not identify yourself or any specific members of staff.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at StudentSurveys@warwick.ac.uk.
Why are some questions not relevant to my course?
Some of the questions may not feel relevant to your course or your experience of university. For these, you can either skip to the next question or you can explain in the open comments box that this question is not relevant to your course.
What do I need to do?
You will receive an email with a link to the questionnaire. Simply click on the link and complete the online form.
Headline results for PTES 2022
2286 Postgraduate Taught students at Warwick responded to the 2022 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES 2022). The overall satisfaction for PTES 2022 was 84.1%, the table below shows positive results generally across the various sections of the survey, Departments have now recieved headline data alongside open comments and a fuller analysis will follow late in the Autumn to support departments with initial reflections and ahead of the next cohort delivery.
The provider specific question response is not as high as we would have liked it, but it reflects what we already largely know that much more work is needed to improve PGT student experience. Students were asked to rate the statement: ‘I feel part of a postgraduate student University community’. A number of projects are in-train to improve experiences, many allied to the work in response to the NSS 2021 results where conclusions focused on the importance of rebuilding and strengthening the student-staff community.
|
Survey satisfaction |
Definitely agree |
Mostly agree |
Neither agree nor disagree |
Mostly Disagree |
Definitely disagree |
|
Teaching and Learning |
46.1% |
38.8% |
9.5% |
3.5% |
1.8% |
|
Engagement |
44.4% |
36.6% |
11.6% |
4.6% |
2.4% |
|
Assessment and Feedback |
40.3% |
37.8% |
13.4% |
5.2% |
2.8% |
|
Organisation and Management |
39.7% |
37.6% |
12.8% |
5.8% |
3.3% |
|
Resources |
42.7% |
37.7% |
11.9% |
4.7% |
2.6% |
|
Dissertation or Major Project |
33.3% |
25.9% |
9.6% |
2.6% |
1.1% |
|
Skills Development |
44.3% |
36.7% |
12.8% |
3.6% |
1.9% |
|
Provider Specific |
31.3% |
36.0% |
20.3% |
8.4% |
3.4% |
|
Overall satisfaction |
41.2% |
42.9% |
9.5% |
3.8% |
2.3% |
You can find out more about the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) at Advance HELink opens in a new window.