i-graduate 2010 Survey Open Comments
These are some of the comments received last year during our survey. We read through each comment and suggestion and used these to help us improve our services. Unless we hear back from you on what needs improving we can't help so it is important for us that you continue to give us this valuable feedback. Thank you.
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Arrival
| "Its a great experience to meet other students of different countries." | |||
| "It was a very good experience and everyone tried to make everything as easy as possible." | |||
| "It's important for you to arrange the first night living for international students in various colleges of accommodation." | |||
| "The process of applying dormitory should be improved" | |||
| "It should be a staff (may be from international office) that is ready to assist a new comer anytime during the first week of the arrival." |
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| "At the first time I arrive, I couldn't contact International because it was holiday. Hope that the pick-up service can be contacted and able to pick up anytime, because as an international student it will be difficult." | |||
| "Unfortunately i arrived late and hence did not attend the orientation" | |||
Learning
| "Its great" | |||
| "I like the uni campus and also all of the building" |
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| "My environment, either in School or any other places in UNE, is supporting me." |
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| "Thank you for the kindness of all lectures and staff in the school of animal science, they are very helpful and full of understanding during my study." | |||
| "Excellent learning experience in this university." |
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| "Overall every things are good. and unfortunately I will missing my university when I will graduate. I do not want thinking about that." | |||
| "I found that the technology infraestructure behind the course is very helpfull and usefull." | |||
| "Gain more knowledge and very good experience for non-English speaking student." | |||
| "Generally good." |
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| "So far, I am very satisfied with the quality of education at UNE." | |||
| "It is the best learning experience in my educational career so far." | |||
| "It is really a good place to be in Armidale and feel at peace to research for a PhD. Living in a friendly community in itself a good learning experience too." | |||
| "My ongoing learning experience was a great including clinical practice and lectures." | |||
| "Learning experience is excellent. I have top A instructors." | |||
| "Personally I have found all my lecturers very helpful.I also think that all lectures should keep an eye on international students as some fail to get the correct instructions and end up missing deadlines and vital information.I have been lucky to have lecturers who made sure I understood everything.The International office staff has also been very helpful and have been able to cater for a wide range of International student needs.Keep up the Good work." | |||
| "Effort to do the assignments are high, therefore they should carry more point toward final mark" | |||
| "Most of my classmates are overseas student. But most of them are from China. I'm a Chinese,too. So it shoud be better if there are more english native student. That helps us understand each other. | |||
| "I expect that there will be more opportunities for work experience for us in the future even if it is just one week." | |||
| "Online units HAVE TO BE FOLLOWED by lecturers." | |||
| "The teachers are qualified bot not all teachres are able to communicate the idea to students well. They are said to be teaching for years and other Institutions as well but few teachers who taught us were not good and not able to teach as per students requirements. They want students to learn what they teach and don't want to bother to change teaching approach and this causes to problems to students as doing masters degree in a language any other than first language is not very easy. In addition we do not have flexibility of choosing our units and library facility in college where I am studying is not good." | |||
| "It will be better if we have some course works to get a good understanding on the subject area that we are doing other than the research activities." | |||
| "There should be courses specific to graduate research such as doctoral or post-doctoral courses to help focus the theoretical capacity especially of students from developing countries. The theory behind any research is as important as the research itself." | |||
| "As PhD student does not have any course work but they need technical support like analysing the data set, which may not be sufficient enough by reading only. So I think PhD student does need on desk technical support sometimes. Some may need support to improve his/her writing skills but I am not sure how this would be provided." | |||
Living
| "Very Good!" |
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| "I am fortunate to study in Armidale because, even though it is a small town, but the opportunity to get job access is still possible." |
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| "I lived in wright village, my experience for living here was that i can make a lot of friend. it is a good place for studing. and the house here are very nice." | |||
| "Everything has been ok so far." | |||
| "Clean and healthy environment." | |||
| "I'm very satisfied." | |||
| "Everything seems to be very good and was quite easy to adapt to living here because of the assistance that was available." | |||
| "Life in Armidale is very relaxing and good." | |||
| "I made heaps of friends here in uni and the hospital I work with." | |||
| "A lot of people at the college especially at the Wright village have insufficient knowledge about doing recycling. Residential leaders need to inform people the importance of recycling." | |||
| "More means of access to information regarding anything important for the success of students." | |||
Support
| "I feel that the study progress i have know is very related to all kind of support of all those above units." | |||
| "UNE international office is the best part of UNE." |
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| "Good." | |||
| "The support services in armidale are very good. i am very satisfied with it." | |||
| "I think I am satisfied and hence I do not have much to say except to encourage those serving to keep it up." | |||
| "The service is quick and good!" | |||
| "I think UNE needs to more advertise most of its services." | |||
| "I had not used the support services much. Only support Service I have used if IT support services band that is quite good. I would like to have services on guidance for our careers and future aspects." | |||
| "There should be more choices of eating places." | |||
| "Once again to me it is a matter of more awareness of the important of these services to student, so that they can come and use them." |
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