Purpose
Course Reps are the foundation of student representation, promoting a partnership between students, academic staff, and SU. They ensure that the experience and feedback of their peers are represented throughout their studies
Term of Office: One academic year
Objectives
Provide students with opportunities to give feedback on all aspects of their experience such as:
- Learning and Teaching
- Assessment & Feedback
- Learning Community
- Employability
- Campus Facilities
- Wellbeing & Support
- Seek to resolve feedback informally with appropriate staff (see key contacts).
- Provide agenda items highlighting academic feedback and present them at the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC).
- Endeavour to make sure that feedback is: Accurate, Balanced, Constructive, Depersonalised & Evidenced.
- Work in partnership with your department staff to ensure that your cohort are kept up to date on how feedback is being actioned.
- Make yourself known and promote the Rep system to the students you represent.
Attends
- SU Student Rep Training
- Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) – Once a term
- SU Big Rep Meeting – Once a year
- Informal meetings with academic staff, Subject Chair, SU President and/or SU
Key Contacts
- Your fellow course reps
- Subject chair for your department
- EDI Reps for your department
- SU President Exeter
- SU Academic Representation & Advocacy Coordinator
- Student Experience Coordinator
- Director of Education and Student Experience (DESE) for your department.
- Tutors and Lecturers
Purpose
Work alongside Course Reps and Subject Chairs to monitor and champion Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. EDI Reps gather feedback from students in minoritised groups and share this feedback with fellow reps and their department making sure that these discussions are mindful of the whole student community.
Term of Office: One academic year
Objectives
- Maintain a working understanding of EDI issues and how they may affect students in your cohort.
- Gather feedback from student in minoritised groups, notably BAME, International, Disabled, LGBTQ+ and Mature students.
- Represent EDI issues at the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) and occasionally attend other meetings to provide feedback and discuss actions.
- Regularly meet with other EDI Reps to share concerns raised across department to feedback to a higher level via The SU.
- Seek to resolve feedback informally with appropriate staff (see key contacts).
- Provide agenda items highlighting academic feedback and present them at the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC).
- Endeavour to make sure that feedback is: Accurate, Balanced, Constructive, Depersonalised & Evidenced.
- Work in partnership with your department staff to ensure that your cohort are kept up to date on how feedback is being actioned.
- Make yourself known and promote the Rep system to the students you represent.
Attends
- SU Student Rep Training
- Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) – Once a term
- SU Big Rep Meeting – Once a year
- Informal meetings with academic staff, Subject Chair, SU President and/or SU
Key Contacts
- Course Reps for your department
- Subject chair for your department
- Your fellow EDI reps
- SU President Exeter
- SU Academic Representation & Advocacy Coordinator
- Student Experience Coordinator
- Director of Education and Student Experience (DESE) for your department.
- Tutors and Lecturers
If you want to know more about how to become a representative for the 2024/25 academic year, please email info@thesu.org.uk.
Care About Your Student Experience?
If you're passionate about student representation and want to take a step up in responsibility, you could represent your whole department or subject area by nominating yourself in the Falmouth Department Rep Elections or the Exeter Subject Chair Elections.
Find out more about what these roles entail & how to nominate yourself below.
Falmouth Department Rep Elections
This election is for the following role:
Department Reps represent all students studying in their department at undergraduate and postgraduate taught level. Department Reps work closely with Falmouth University staff and The SU to achieve positive change for students in their department.
Term of Office: One academic year
Objectives
- To work collaboratively with the University and The SU to support and facilitate the student representation system.
- Work with and support the Course Reps in your department to promote, gather, and deliver effective student feedback.
- Chair the Student Staff Liaison Group (SSLG), including:
Understand the agenda ahead of time.
Promoting constructive dialogue in the meeting
Assigning and monitoring the completion of actions from the meeting.
- Discuss common academic concerns and ideas with the Head of Subject and seek to resolve these in a timely and informal manner when possible.
- Be aware of common themes arising from student feedback within the department and share these with the Advocacy Team at The SU and your SSLG.
- Endeavour to make sure that feedback is: Accurate, Balanced, Constructive, Depersonalised & Evidenced.
- In collaboration with staff, keep course reps updated on the progress of feedback for sharing with the wider student community.
Attends
- SU Department Rep Training
- Student Staff Liaison Group (SSLG) – Once a Study Block
- SU Big Rep Meeting – Once a year
- Informal meetings with University academic staff, and/or The SU
Key Contacts
- SU Presidents
- SU Academic Representation & Advocacy Coordinator
- Head of Subject
- SU Course Reps (within department)
- Department Admin teams
Please login to nominate yourself.
No elections are currently running
If you have any further questions about the department rep role and how to nominate yourself, please email info@thesu.org.uk.
Exeter Subject Chair Elections
This election is for the following role:
Subject Chairs are senior academic representatives, representing all students studying in their subject at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Subject chairs work closely with University of Exeter staff and The SU to achieve positive change for students within their cohort.
Term of Office: One academic year
Objectives
- To work collaboratively with the University and The SU to support and facilitate the student representation system.
- Work with and support the Reps in your subject to promote, gather, and deliver effective student feedback.
- Chair the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC), including:
Setting the agenda
Promoting constructive dialogue in the meeting
Assigning and monitoring the completion of actions from the meetings.
- Meet directly with the Director of Education and Student Experience to informally resolve issues in a timely manner.
- Maintain an awareness of common feedback and present these at the Subject Chair Working Group.
- Endeavour to make sure that feedback is: Accurate, Balanced, Constructive, Depersonalised & Evidenced.
- In collaboration with staff, keep course reps updated on the progress of feedback for sharing with the wider student community.
- Represent the student voice of the subject in strategic activity, such as feeding into the Teaching Excellence Action Plan (TEAP).
- Make yourself known and promote the Rep system to the students you represent.
Attends
- SU Subject Chair Training – 11 October 2023
- Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) – Once a term
- Subject Chair Working Group
- Subject Chair Handover in Term 3
- SU Big Rep Meeting – Twice a year
- Informal meetings with University academic staff, and/or The SU
Key Contacts
- SU Presidents
- SU Academic Representation & Advocacy Coordinator
- SU Course Reps (within subject)
- Director of Education and Student Experience
- Student Community and Partnerships Staff
Please login to nominate yourself.
If you have any further questions about the subject chair role and how to nominate yourself, please email info@thesu.org.uk.