The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is a national survey, coordinated by Advance HE. This will be the fifth consecutive year of running the feedback mechanism at Bedfordshire and this years survey will be open from March 2025 to 13th June 2025.
The PTES gives taught postgraduates the chance to feedback their experiences on teaching and learning. We need to know what postgraduates think so we can address issues and keep doing what is valued. It is an opportunity to say what went well and what could have been improved.
The PTES survey is more similar to the NSS in relation to questions on students’ experiences of teaching and learning, course organisation, resources and support. It is an opportunity to say what went well and what could have been improved. The PTES also asks about student engagement and skills development.
The PTES is used by over 90 HEIs across the UK and is the greatest source of information from Postgraduate Taught students.
The PTES is administered by the Academy for Learning & Teaching Excellence (ALTE) and the questionnaire is hosted online by Jisc Online Surveys. Staff will be sent a link to disseminate and your help in doing this would be much appreciated.
In March 2025, postgraduate-taught students will receive a version of the email for the PTES survey.
Username: Student ID / Password: PTES2025
Find out more about Student Voice
In March, postgraduate students are sent an email from no-reply@jisc.ac.uk asking them to complete the PTES.
Due to the reflective nature of the questions, the surveys were sent only to students who had started a course in January 2025 or earlier.
Students are asked to log in to the surveys, as we have pre-populated some demographic data about them and their course to reduce the length of the survey - it should take them around 15-minutes. Responses are reported anonymously.
Students are more likely to complete the survey if they know their feedback is important to their teaching staff, department and university, and why. Research also shows that students are more likely to engage when asked by a member of staff they know personally. A higher response rate gives greater confidence and statistical robustness to results and makes it possible to deliver results at levels relevant to staff delivering teaching and learning.
This year data from the PTES will be used more systematically for enhancement purposes, not least because we are now able to disaggregate the data at course level where 5 or more students on a course have completed the survey.
For any questions about the implementation of the PTES please contact Simone Banner via: Academy@beds.ac.uk
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