King’s PTES 2026 invitation links feedback to reported action

Updated Sep 07, 2026

King’s College London’s 7 April 2026 PTES invitation paired a request for feedback with examples of changes it attributed to earlier student input. Its survey window ran from 7 April to 12 June; this is a historical account of that campaign. King’s announcement.

What the invitation said

The invitation covered eligible taught postgraduates, including Master’s, PG Diploma and PG Certificate students. It gave course, start-date and completion requirements, including a minimum 60-credit course, and separate guidance for programmes billed by module. Students who completed the survey could choose to enter a draw for 25 graduation packages.

King’s connected the invitation to examples involving assessment arrangements, academic support, wellbeing, community and campus life. These are the institution’s accounts of its changes, not an independent evaluation of the campaign’s effect on trust, response rates or student outcomes.

A separate 10 November 2025 article described a September 2025 revision to module feedback policy, with more opportunities during modules and shorter evaluation surveys. It also reported a grace period for online exam submissions and changes to mitigating circumstances and late-coursework arrangements. King’s account of feedback-related changes.

Make the link between feedback and decisions inspectable

Our suggestion is to give each published action a clear evidence trail: what students raised, who considered it, what changed and when. Where several evidence sources informed a decision, name them instead of crediting one survey for every improvement.

Keep the campaign’s eligibility and incentive terms separate from the account of action. Avoid transferring one institution’s local arrangements to another survey. Likewise, distinguish an institution’s estimate of completion time from measured respondent burden.

For a local review, ask students whether the examples explain the decision clearly and whether the response reaches those who supplied the feedback. That is a question to investigate, not an outcome demonstrated by this invitation. Our staff–student evaluation redesign summary provides related questions for planning that discussion.

Review note, 7 September 2026: confirmed the historical campaign details through King’s indexed announcement, attributed reported changes to the institution and removed unsupported claims of demonstrated participation or trust benefits. The source pages give different completion-time estimates, so this summary does not repeat one as a measured fact.