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October 2015
WE’RE UNHAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT
Bristol ‘failing to satisfy its students’ TOM GELLATLY
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THE University of Bristol must do more to meet students’ expectations, according to the results of a national survey. It came 106th out of 160 in the National Student Survey, which asks final-year undergraduates to rate teaching, feedback, academic support, organisation, resources and personal development, as well as overall satisfaction. Bristol scored 84 out of 100, putting it below the national average of 86 and on a par with the universities of Hertfordshire, Falmouth and Edinburgh, as well
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as Edinburgh Napier. But former students had mixed feelings. Esme Sprigings, 21, who graduated from Bristol this year, said: ‘The course was great but facilities are lacking. We need more books and library space and the ratings will be back on track.’ But she added: ‘I definitely think that the rating is too low. ‘We were always dismayed by the minimal contact hours, just like all the arts students – but once you did get contact with a tutor I always found them to be supportive, interested and genuinely helpful. ‘I never doubted how interested
they were in their subject and, if I made the effort to ask questions, help was forthcoming.’ Brighton and Sussex Medical School took first place in the survey, with a score of 98, followed by St Mary’s University, with 96 points, and Keele University, Hull York Medical School and the University of Buckingham, which came joint third with 95 points. But it was not a good year for the prestigious Russell Group of universities, with none of them making it into the top ten. Bristol defended its teaching,
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