ShareAQU Catalunya meets the Technical Committee for Surveys to review its satisfaction survey
With the support of the Committee, the Agency has revised its annual satisfaction survey to address topical issues in its field.
AQU Catalunya has taken an important step in updating its Satisfaction Survey of recent graduates, which it began to carry out in 2015 and which is intended to ascertain the satisfaction of the recent graduate population in relation to the Bachelor's or Master's degree they have just completed. After having cooperated with the Technical Committee for Surveys, AQU Catalunya has drawn up an update to this survey that has consisted of adding an extra module that will allow the Agency to ask the thousands of respondents how they assess various elements of their experience at university that go beyond their satisfaction with the studies they have taken but which are related to the university field. The module will change from year to year, as was announced at the last meeting of the Technical Committee for Surveys, made up of around thirty people, including members of the Quality Technical Units of all the universities and also members of the Department of Education, in order to be able to focus on a variety of issues that have a specific weight in AQU Catalunya's current affairs.
The first question added to this additional enquiry module is satisfaction as recent graduates viewed from a gender perspective. Later on, questions may be asked, for example, on issues such as university fraud, student mental health or the use of artificial intelligence in the university context. The Agency and the committee value this change as a flexible way of approaching issues of public interest without having to conduct ad hoc surveys or having to modify the part of the satisfaction survey that is already consolidated.
Besides the above-mentioned changes, questions traditionally asked to respondents have also been amended and new questions have been added. Results of the Graduate Satisfaction Survey are reported through common indicators that serve to improve the teaching. For example, the indicators reflect respondents' satisfaction with dimensions such as learning, services and facilities available, and the personal impact of the teaching on the student, among others. In the last edition, 15,402 recent graduates responded to the survey.