The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) is a long-established Advance HE piece of research into the postgraduate researcher (PGR) experience. It is open to all Advance HE member institutions globally, providing confidential results to drive enhancement of their PGR provision. Due the scale and reach of PRES, this provides the opportunity for participating institutions to receive detailed benchmarking comparisons against peer institutions. It also allows PGRs an opportunity to feedback to their institutions on what could be improved.
This year's survey, which was completed by over 35,000 students from 93 institutions, shows that overall satisfaction levels are the highest we have seen in over a decade (at 83%), and there is evidence of progress being made across many of the aspects covered.
Even the areas of research culture and community, which perennially score lower than the other main sections, have begun to show consistently higher scores. Elsewhere in the survey, supervision is highly praised, as is the provision of online and oncampus resources.
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