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Our research is anonymous and confidential and in line with the Market Research Society Code of Conduct. We are members of the British Market Research Association.

Unless otherwise stated, please answer the following questions in relation to your experience during the current semester/ term.

How many times have you used these services?

Do not include contacts that were not substantive, for example contacts to arrange meetings.

What other support service did you use?

How satisfied were you with the quality of them?

How many hours of time-tabled classes (e.g. lectures, tutorials, seminars, practicals etc.) have you had scheduled, in an average week during term-time?

Do not worry if you cannot be precise just try to give a reasonable average.

You've said that you have <%~Q2a%> hours of time-tabled classes per week.

Are you sure that this is correct?

You say you have <%~Q2a%> hours of time-tabled classes per week. On average, how many hours per week have you been able to attend?

Please make sure that the hours attended per week is less than or equal to the hours of time-tabled classes you have per week; <%~Q2a%>

Your number of hours attending, <%~Q2b%>, is greater than your number of hours for time-tabled classes, <%~Q2a%>.

Please click 'Next' to go back and change your number of hours attending.

Please think about the size of various teaching groups you have attended (for example in timetabled lectures, tutorials, practicals, supervised fieldwork etc.).

On average, about how many hours per week have you had with...

The total below should be no higher than your total hours for time-tabled classes attended; <%~Q2b%>

It appears your total hours spent with the various teaching groups is greater then your total hours of classes attended.

Please click 'Next' to go back and amend your answers, starting with hours of classes attended.

To what extent do you agree with the following statement?

"I am satisfied with the number of time-tabled classes I have had during this term"

What size of teaching group is an optimum (according to your experience) for the following types of classes?

Think about your time-tabled classes during the current semester/term.

Who mainly led the <%~_InclItem_%>?

If you don't have any of this particular class type please select 'NA'

Students sometimes need to liaise with teaching staff to discuss work outside formal teaching time. During the past term on average roughly how often have you had discussions with teaching staff outside formal teaching time, whether face to face, by phone, email or some other contact?

Only record substantive discussion, not e.g. meetings to arrange meetings.

To what extent do you agree with the following statement?

"I feel I have sufficient access to an academic member of staff outside timetabled sessions in order to discuss aspects of my work"

During term-time, on average about how many hours per week have you spent doing private study (e.g. reading, or producing course work or essays)?

Do not worry if you cannot be precise just try to give a reasonable average.

You've said that you spend <%~Q9%> hours per week doing private study (e.g. reading, or producing course work or essays).

Are you sure that this is correct?

Since the beginning of this Academic year (September 2005) how much time have you spent working outside the institution as part of your course (e.g. on field trips, or supervised placement in a hospital as a medical or nursing student)?

Do you feel the amount of time spent working outside the institution as part of your course has been...

How satisfied have you been with your placement / field trip in terms of gaining experience and skills?

By the end of this semester/ term, how many assignments will you have handed in to be marked?

Please include all essays, practical write-ups, projects, dissertations or other extended pieces of written work, solved problem sets, technical sketches, video tapes, posters, performances, language assignments, seminar assignments, web sites etc..

Do not worry if you cannot be precise just try to give a reasonable figure.

During term-time, about how many hours per week have you spent in paid employment unrelated to your course?

Think about your use of specialised facilities (e.g. laboratories, language resource centres, studios, theatres or specialised computing facility for computer scientists but not general IT facilities available to all students).

During term-time, about how many hours in an average week have you spent using these facilities?

Please distinguish between supervised and unsupervised time. (If your course has not involved using specialised facilities please put 0).

Do you feel that supervised time you have spent using specialised facilities was adequate to your needs?

Do you feel that unsupervised time you have spent using specialised facilities was adequate to your needs?

In general, how satisfied have you been with the quality of access to the Virtual Learning Environment (e.g. WebCT, Blackboard) available to you during the last term?

If not all of your modules use Virtual Learning Environment (e.g. WebCT, Blackboard), would you like them to do so?

In general, do you feel that you had enough access to web-based facilities (e.g. online library catalogue, online learning resources, email, Internet) during the last term?

Thinking of all the things you have been asked about in this questionnaire so far, to what extent do you feel you have received value for money on your present course?

Thinking back to when you applied to your current University, has the reality of your experiences matched your expectations (based on the prospectus, web site, open days etc.)?

If your experience has been better than expected, or better in some ways, why do you feel this?

If your experience has been worse than expected, or worse in some ways, why do you feel this?

From 2006 students will pay higher fees. Please rank the following activities on which you think your university should use the additional income:

Use a scale of 1 to 7 to rank the activities, where 1 would indicate the most important activity and 7 would indicate the least important.

So, just to check, <%~Hiq25%> is the most important activity.

Is there anything else you think your university ought to spend the money on?

Some time in the furture there may be a follow up study to this research. Would you be interested in taking part?

As always, we are interested in hearing about your opinions and your experiences.

Do you have any comments you would like to make about life at university?

What would you like to tell us about university life?

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