Your voice matters – complete the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES)

The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is open from 8 April until 13 June 2024 for eligible postgraduates. This is your best chance to share your honest opinion on your degree experience at King’s. It is easy to complete and only takes 10 minutes on average. By completing the survey, you will help shape the experiences of current and future postgraduate students.

If you choose to complete the survey and enter the prize draw, you could win one of 30 free graduation packages which includes free tickets for you and your guests, free gown hire, and free professional photography! You could also claim your free ForeverKing’s merchandise from one of our Completion Hubs, while our stocks last.

Keep reading for more details about the survey and why it’s important, your eligibility, and the incentives on offer. If you are eligible, click the link immediately below to complete the survey.

What is the PTES?

The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is the only UK higher education sector-wide survey to gain insight from taught postgraduate students about their learning and teaching experience. Conducted in partnership with AdvanceHE, PTES gathers important information about the experience of any taught postgraduate student on a Masters, Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma course. This includes students studying our online and distance learning courses. PTES also considers students’ motivations for taking their programme and – where relevant – their experience of undertaking a dissertation or major project.   

Why does the PTES matter?  

PTES matters because it makes a tangible difference to the experience students have at university. By completing the survey, you can make it clear what you have enjoyed about your experience at King’s and what you think could have made it better. Last year, almost 4,000 King’s students shared their opinion. Your opinion is incredibly important to us, and we value the time you take sharing your thoughts.

As a result of previous feedback from PTES we have been able to improve various aspects of our students’ experience, including:  

• Scrapping the Cap, which reduced the penalty applied to late coursework submissions. 
• Improving our Mitigating Circumstances process, making evidence requirements more clear and proportionate. 
• Reducing our average counselling wait times from over 21 days in 2021-22 to under two weeks.  
• Enhancing our careers and employability support – we now offer Shortlist.me (a free video interview service) and CareerSet (a comprehensive CV checker powered by AI), which support your employability journey.  

You can read more about how King’s and KCLSU are using student feedback to improve and enhance the experience of our students on our website. 

Eligibility

To be eligible all students:

• must be studying towards at least 60 credits i.e. PG Cert, PG Dip, Masters
• must be in their final year of study (where applicable)
• must have enrolled prior to 1 January 2024

All eligible students will receive an email on 8 April inviting them to complete the survey from Professor Adam Fagan via studentsurveys@kcl.ac.uk. Your email will contain a personalised link through which you can access the survey. Alternatively, you can use the link above. Your department will send periodic reminders about the survey until you have completed it. 

Win a Free Graduation Package

By entering our prize draw, you could win one of 30 free graduation packages which includes free guest tickets, free gown hire, and free professional photography, which you will otherwise have to pay for if you attend graduation. You must enter the prize draw before the survey closes at 23:59 on 13 June. Please read our Terms and Conditions before entering the prize draw.

Winners will be announced on 1 July 2024.

Claim your free ForeverKing’s merchandise

If you complete the survey at one of our Completion Hubs, you can claim your free ForeverKing’s merchandise, consisting of a tote bag, water bottle and pin badge, courtesy of our alumni team, while stocks last. See below for our Hub locations.

Already completed the survey?

Come along to one of our Completion Hubs and our ambassadors will confirm you have completed the survey and then provide you with your merchandise.  

Questions

If you have any questions about the PTES, please contact us at studentsurveys@kcl.ac.uk