RCU - Research and Consultancy in Education

Staff Surveys

Staff Surveys Information for 2010-11

RCU has been carrying out staff surveys for more than 10 years.

The areas covered may be general staff opinion surveys or may focus on a particular area such as Health & Well-Being or internal communications or staff development.

For an overview of staff survey options and the processes and costs, click on the file in the Related Documents section below to see a slide-show.

If you require survey results on a small number of issues very quickly, we also have a Rapid Response survey which guarantees you results within 5 working days of the survey closing.

The methodologies we use include self-completion questionnaires (on-line or on-paper) and focus groups and interviews.

In addition to fully customised approaches, we can provide off-the-shelf solutions and colleges in the further education sector can have their results benchmarked against other colleges which have taken the survey.

If you’d like to know more about what we do, our employee ownership and the professional standards we bring to all research assignments, go to our Video Gallery page.

Here you’ll also find a number of 10 Step Guides to common research issues which learning providers have to tackle – for example employer surveys, key stakeholder surveys, surveys of no-shows and early leavers.

Related Documents

Videos

10 Step Guide - Staff Surveys

10 Step Guide to Staff Surveys

Frequently Asked Questions

How long has RCU been in business?

We first started out in the mid-eighties and became a private company in the early 1990's.

I see you're based in Preston - is your market mainly North West?

Our base is in the North West, but our client base is all around the UK.

What does "RCU" stand for?

Originally, it stood for Responsive College Unit. In the mid 1980's there was an initiative to make colleges more responsive to their local communities. That is where we started. Since then we've continued to do work in the education sector but have widened our client base and our range of services considerably since those early days.

What sorts of organisation do you work with?

We work for a wide range of organisations in the public sector, mainly. Historically, our focus has been on the post-16 education sector where we have carried out assignments for both individual providers such as colleges or local authorities but we have also done research on behalf of Awarding Bodies and national government departments.

Who owns RCU?

All members of staff are co-owners of the company.