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Engineering programmes in the UK: the student feedback experience

James Williams and David Kane

Abstract:

In the UK, collecting feedback from students about their experience of higher education has become one of the key elements in national and institutional quality processes. Engineering students, like those from other disciplines, are encouraged to complete feedback questionnaires at all levels from individual course evaluation forms to institutional-level surveys and the National Student Survey. Engineering suffers more than most from poor recruitment, difficulties in motivating students and higher than average drop-out rates. This chapter explores the ways in which this may be reflected in student experience surveys. A review of student ...

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