I. Schmid, HR-RFA – ATC 19 January 2006 SUMMER STUDENT PROGRAMME 2005 Overview Feedback on the Programme Student Questionnaire Supervisor Questionnaire Feeback on the Lecture Programme

Overview ( ) = Year Valid applications: 778 (697) Appointed students: 147 (161) Refused offers: GB, 4 FR, 1GR, 1PL, 1FI, 1DE, 1NO => refusal rate of 8 % (5%) Reasons: 7 gave preference to another offer, 2 private reasons, 1 already accepted another offer, 1 gave preference to a longer placement, 1 project not accepted by university. Nationality distribution: 124 MS students, 23 NMS students (Australia, Croatia, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, US) Students by department Students by field of study Male/Female Distribution

Total Applications and Appointed Students = Total Applications = Appointed Students Overview (2) 24%5%12% 14% 18% = Selection rate 9% 12% 100% 2 27% Overall selection rate: ~19%

Appointed Summer Students 2005 by Budget Nationality Countries N = CERN funded = Outside funded Overview (3) 3 Total outside financed students 32 (42) Total CERN financed students 115 (119) ( ) = Year 2004

Overall satisfaction with the Studentship Total Replies: 108 out of 147 => Response rate: 73 % (61 %) 98 % very positive about the programme ( ) = Year 2004 Feedback on the Programme Student Questionnaire Work Project 4

Supervisor Recommendation of Supervisor ( ) = Year Feedback on the Programme Student Questionnaire (2)

( ) = Year 2004 Feedback on the Programme Supervisor Questionnaire 120 out of 147 supervisors completed the questionnaire => response rate 82% (64%) If the student was to apply for a Technical/Doctoral Student or Fellow, as a candidate I would consider him as: 6

Lecture Programme and Activities New Chairman: Fabio Cerutti Committee Members: 7 Monica Pepe- Altarelli Head HR-RFA Mike Seymour Theoretical Physicist Andreas Schopper Research Physicist LHCb Jurgen Knobloch LHC Computing Grid Management Francesco Ruggiero Applied Physicist Ingrid Schmid Programme Coordinator Changes in 2005 Discussion sessions – differently organized this year - scheduled everyday at noon for ½ hour - all lecturers present to reply to the questions - positive reactions of students More workshops offered (Madgraph and Status of CERN Accelerators offering an extra ~100 places)

Feedback on the Lecture Programme Impressive feedback given by the students on the lectures 103 students replied and we could count 1454 entries – (the entries have more than doubled compared to last year) 8 Lecturers received individual feedback (comments from students to their lectures) as well as the following 3 tables: Table: Count of entries between

5 very interesting 4 interesting 3 of some interest 2 uninteresting 1 completely uninteresting Lecture Content: Average Score by Lecturer ( ) = average 2004 Feedback on the Lecture Programme Below average Above average 9

Lecture Level: Average Score by Lecturer ( ) = average much too high 4 too high 2 too low 1 much too low 3 just right Feedback on the Lecture Programme (2) 10

Lecture Presentation: Average Score by Lecturer 5 excellent 4 good 3 fair 2 poor 1 very poor ( ) = average 2004 Feedback on the Lecture Programme (3) Below average Above average 11

CONCLUSION Feedback we received confirms a successful programme and an optimized lecture programme Feedback has been analyzed and action will be taken to try and improve the programme and lecture programme for next year The 2006 programme is in preparation: We received some 400 valid applications so far, another 500 are in the process of applying the project proposal submission has been launched Lecture Programme committee is discussing the new lecture programme – it will start on July 5, 2006 with an introduction given by J. Engelen. 12