Questionnaire for Former Students

This questionnaire has been designed for former students of

Leicester College of Art
Leicester College of Technology
Leicester Polytechnic
De Montfort University
Charles Frears School of Nursing
City of Leicester Training College for Teachers
City of Leicester College of Education
DMU Bedford
DMU Lincoln
DMU Milton Keynes

We are asking people to fill in these questionnaires as part of our 150^th Anniversary Project. This project aims to fill gaps in De Montfort University archives and record information about the people who attended and worked at DMU and its predecessors.

The information collected will be kept in full in DMU Special Collections as part of the institutional archive. Extracts or quotations may be used in the 150^th Anniversary exhibition “150 Stories” and associated publications, including online resources such as websites and social media. In the future the information may be used by students and academic researchers in their work.

The project is being organized by the #DMUHeritage team, under the supervision of Special Collections Manager Katharine Short and Heritage Centre Curator Elizabeth Wheelband.

If you have any questions about the questionnaire or the project please contact archives@dmu.ac.uk

Please note:

You do not have to complete every question.

You can submit the questionnaire anonymously.

Name (optional)

Contact information (optional)

Date of birth

Where did you grow up?

What was the occupation of your parents/carers?

What education did you have before coming to DMU or predecessor?

When did you attend DMU or predecessor?

What subject did you study?

What was the manner of your attendance (e.g. part time, full time, day courses, evening classes, day release from employment):

How did you finance your studies? Did you work while you studied? Where did you work? What was it like to combine work and study?

What support was available if you needed help of any kind (financial, health, social etc.)?

What was the course like? What methods were used for teaching?

How was your work assessed?

What were the staff like? Do you have any particular memories of your academic staff like tutors, lecturers or demonstrators? What about professional services staff such as librarians, chaplains, career advisors, wardens?

When did you finish your studies?

What qualifications did you gain?

What did you go on to do after you left study?

Where did you live while you were studying? Was it hard to find accommodation?

Did you join any clubs or societies? What did activities did you undertake?

Did you participate in charity events such as RAG?

Were you part of a sports team? Which one? What was it like?

What was your social life like? Did you attend dances, gigs, concerts, discos or clubs? Where did students meet? What were your favourite places to eat and drink?

Which campus and building were you based in? What did you think of it?

What was the town (Leicester, Lincoln, Milton Keynes, Bedford) like while you were studying? What were relations like with local non-students?

What was the reputation of the institution while you were attending? What was your perception of it?

Did you attend around one of the times the status of the institution changed (e.g. when the Colleges of Art and Technology became Leicester Polytechnic in 1969, or when Leicester Polytechnic became De Montfort University in 1992). Did the change affect the way you thought of the institution? Did it affect your decision to attend? Did the change affect the way things were done within the institution?

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Declaration:

By pressing ‘submit’ I confirm that I consent to take part in the project and hereby assign to De Montfort University Special Collections all copyright in my contribution for permanent retention in the institutional archive and use in any and all media.

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