The Faculty offers multiple ways for undergraduate students to provide feedback on the Mathematical Tripos be it course content, lectures and examinations, or organisational and operational matters. We welcome constructive feedback from students — positive or negative — throughout the academic year.
Continuous feedback
Students may provide feedback in real-time to the Director of Undergraduate Education and the Chair of the Teaching Committee via feedback@maths.cam.ac.uk
This mechanism is likely to be most appropriate if the feedback you wish to give is either:
- time critical (e.g. an issue with a lecture course currently being delivered), or
- sensitive (e.g. to report an incident you have witnessed such as disrespect from students towards a lecturer or other students within a lecture, or disrespect from a lecturer.)
Whilst the Faculty is the place to raise concerns about incidents that took place during Faculty organised teaching or events, and/or at the Centre of Mathematical Sciences, issues involving supervisions or supervisors might first be raised with your Director of Studies.
Any feedback you submit via the feedback email will be treated confidentially, and your name will not be forwarded to any other party without your consent. If there is need for your feedback to be passed onto anyone else (for example, to a lecturer) identifying information will be removed. Your e-mail will be acknowledged, and you will receive a response if appropriate.
In addition, you can:
- Provide feedback on CATAM via catam@maths.cam.ac.uk
- Provided feedback on supervisions to your Director of Studies or your Tutor.
- Contact your Student Representatives via student.reps@maths.cam.ac.uk who may be able to raise your feedback informally, or in the relevant committee.
Anonymous feedback
From time-to-time students may wish to provide feedback without revealing their identity. The Faculty provides an anonymous reporting form for this purpose. This mechanism is likely to be most appropriate if you wish to provide sensitive feedback, including feedback concerning the behaviour of others. Feedback submitted via the anonymous reporting form is received by the Director of Undergraduate Teaching and the Chair of the Teaching Committee, as well as the Chair of the Faculty’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee.
Access the form here: Anonymous Feedback about the Undergraduate Mathematical Tripos | Undergraduate Mathematics
Feedback via questionnaires
All undergraduate students are invited to respond to course questionnaires as set out below. The feedback provided in response to these questionnaires are analysed by the Teaching Committee, with input from the Committee’s Student Representatives.
| Two weeks into each course | You will receive a very brief electronic questionnaire to check things are going OK. |
| At the end of each course | Each lecturer should hand out a questionnaire towards the end of each course, give you 5 minutes of lecture time to fill it in, and then collect them; otherwise, you can return it to the Undergraduate Office (room B1.29, CMS). |
| At the end of each year | An email questionnaire is also sent out at the end of each year. The end of year questionnaire provides the Faculty with further information that is not obtainable in the end of course questionnaires, such as comparisons between courses, comments on the exams, and views from those who didn't finish a lecture course. |
Complaints procedures
The formal complaints procedure to be followed within the University can be found on the Student Complaints website. The Responsible Officer in Step 1 of this procedure for the Faculty of Mathematics is the Chair of the Faculty Board – see Faculty Board webpage for the name of the current Chair.