Staff-Student Consultation Committees

Dr. David BroomCourse Leader - Physical Activity, Health and Exercise Science

Acknowledgements - Damian Kingsbury and David Rogerson

Outline of this Thunderstorm

• Importance of giving the students a voice

• How staff-student consultation committees used to run

• How staff-student consultation committees now run

• The SSCC feedback spread-sheet

• Room for improvement.

Importance of giving the students a voice

• Feedback is needed so that we can continually improve our learning, teaching and assessment

• Students are our consumers and they want to give us feedback on the service we are offering

• We are judged on our ability to act on feedback through KPI's such as the NSS

• Is a requirement of the QAA

How staff-student consultation committees used to run

• Twice a year

• The whole Department in a room

• Breakouts with discipline specific student reps

• Staff 'put on the spot' by student reps almost badgered to be critical.

How staff-student consultation committees now run

Staff-Student Forum, where cohort feedback issues, problems and positive feed-forward is given to Course Representatives and the Course Leader

↓Issues, problems and positive feed forward are reported to Module Leaders and

teaching team, via SSCC feedback spreadsheet. Module Leaders respond to comments↓

Staff-Student Consultation Committee held, where staff address issues raised in SSCC feedback spreadsheet

↓Course Representatives provide comment on staff points, to determine whether points

have been addressed satisfactorily↓

SSCC feedback spreadsheet is made available to cohort, via Course Organisation shuspace sites

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Any issues not satisfactorily addressed are forwarded to the Agenda for the next SSCC

The SSCC feedback spread-sheet

Room for improvement

• Personally - Communicating to students how we have acted on their feedback

• From this years course review:

• Clashes with teaching and busy periods meant that some staff were unable to attend

• We should consult students how they would like to feedback on their courses

• Feedback should be two-way. Whilst students should feedback to staff, staff should be able to feedback to students.

Thank You for ListeningANY QUESTIONS ?