Project Update

Well, I've got to the end of my second week and have now met with all the members of the GoSLuRP Core Project Team (CPT) here at Goldsmiths. At the meetings, we discussed the project plan, progress to date, their individual sub-plans, risks and issues and plans for the second student survey which, is due to go out on 26th October.

CPT members are making good progress on the deliverables within their sub-plans and so the project is on schedule, with no major risk or issues to be reported.

We have started to analyse the data from the first survey and after attending a presentation from i-Graduate on the results of the Student and International Student Barameter on Wednesday, I now have some ideas of how we present the results from our survey.

We had over 480 students complete the first survey and 362 have said they are willing to help with future surveys, that's over 10% of the target population. The great news is that of those, we have a good spread over the three cohorts we are specifically interested in for this project.

Earlier today I chatted with Sharon Perry who kindly explained the role of JISC CETIS and RMSAS. That was really helpful, thanks Sharon.

I've just had a Skype chat with Geraint Fox, who is in South America for a recruitment event, to update him on progress and we have scheduled another one for next week.

Next week, we'll be working on compiling the second survey which, will be sent out to the 362 students who completed the first survey. We will be seeking to address some of the issues raised in the first survey and identify issues that students are still facing now and any potential areas of concern during their initial weeks. We will also ask be asking specific questions to our three target cohorts of students.