4. Questionnaire results
A total of 82 postgraduate students studying in a variety of courses at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen completed the survey (Table 1). The students came from courses in librarianship, information management and law, in addition to various management-related courses. A snowball sampling approach was followed via which Course Leaders invited their students to participate in the research. Only 32.4% (n=24) had attended their induction programme while 52.9% (n=38) indicated that it was not available in their course. The students were asked to offer their perspectives on the design, content and delivery of an ideal induction programme on the level of practical and affective needs. A 5-point Likert scale was used to rank the importance students’ assigned to these areas (1=not important at all to 5=very important). As Table 1 illustrates, students assigned high importance to most of the practical areas although the value of university support contacts was slightly lower.