Student survey
Tell us your views and opinions to help improve our courses and your time studying with us
We run an annual survey to gather the views and opinions of all students studying at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust – this is your chance to tell us what you think.
The Trust has been running an annual student survey since 2004. To enable benchmarking, the questions are largely based on the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) and the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES), both run nationally by Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy). To capture the unique nature of the Trust’s programmes and their integral link to NHS clinical training, and to help us in our aspirations for promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, additional questions are included.
The survey is a key component of the Trust’s engagement with students, alongside more frequent touch points such as termly course committee meetings, student representation on DET committees, termly Dean’s Forum meetings, and more ad hoc events and surveys.
Anonymity and Privacy Statement
We want you to feel comfortable expressing your opinions and so we protect your identity within the survey through our privacy statement.
Here is a summary:
- Your name, email address, student ID and any other personal information will NOT be saved with your response.
- We will NOT share the section ‘about yourself’ (where you are asked about your personal characteristics) with course teams.
- Aggregate (combined results with your peers) are presented in graph and table form, never individual responses.
- All feedback is considered and reported on at a global level, but where there are fewer than five responses at a course level, these results will not be shared with course teams.
- Qualitative comments may be used for marketing purposes.
Your participation in this survey is voluntary and you can stop at any point and delete your answers. Once you have completed the questionnaire you will not be able to return to the survey to amend or delete your answers.
What are the questions?
We ask questions in the following areas:
- Course details (to enable us to review the satisfaction on individual courses and benchmark against different courses)
- Learning and teaching
- Engagement
- Community and culture (including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion)
- Assessment and feedback
- Research thesis progress and assessment (for Professional Doctorate students)
- Master’s dissertation or major project (for final year MA students)
- Organisation and management
- Resources (including the library and Moodle)
- Support (including placements and observations)
- Skills and professional development
- Overall satisfaction
- About yourself
The answers to the ‘About Yourself’ questions are used to analyse our performance by characteristic, and evaluate whether certain groups are experiencing our delivery differently, e.g. if some students with particular characteristics are less satisfied with an aspect, such as support and wellbeing, than others. We never share the data for this section at a course level.
Overview report and action plan
We take your feedback extremely seriously and create analysis reports and comprehensive, wide-ranging action plans based on the results.
Your feedback is also included in the annual review of our courses, which all course teams review and respond to with a course-level action plan. These are then considered and discussed at course committees.