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What You’ll Learn
• Course Rep skills• The representational system• What is required of you• What support you will receive• Plus, you’ll meet other class reps!
Ice breaker
• Turn to someone you don’t know!• What is their name?• What is their course?• Why did they stand to be a Course Rep?• Tell us one thing that they’d like to change
or improve about their Course, School or Institution
Overview of Student Representation
SSCCs are the platform for students and staff in the School to sit down to discuss and resolve academic and school related issues which arise throughout the year.
Quality Assurance and Enhancement
• SSCC stands for Staff Student Consultative Committee• It should meet ideally twice per semester• There’s at least one in each School• A student should chair the meeting
Staff Student Consultative Committees (SSCCs)
The Format of SSCCs
Members include:Chair (ideally a student), Secretary (member of staff/student who takes minutes), Course Reps, relevant members of staff and other invited guests (such as school Societies).
Before the meeting:• Send any issues you wish to be on the agenda• Prepare for any issues you wish to raise• Read the minutes from the last meeting• Receive the agenda and ensure you attend in good time.
During the meeting:• The Chair will announce apologies of those who can’t attend• The Chair will ask if everything was ok with the minutes from the last meeting• The SSCC will discuss issues on agenda • Any other business will be discussed (any issues that have come up at the last
minute)• The SSCC will confirm an action list for issues raised during the meeting• The Chair will confirm the time and place of the next meeting
The Student Experience
Why do we have Course Reps?
Overview of Student Representation
Why do we have Course Reps?
Split into 2 Groups
New Reps
What is a Course Rep?• Purpose• Tasks• Skills• Benefits
Returners
Your Experience!• Learn• Achieve• Do Differently• Advice
Purpose
To continuously improve the student learning experience in partnership with the College and Students’ Union by helping create solutions to problems.
To represent your fellow classmates’ views and opinions on all matters relating to learning and teaching.
To provide both positive and negative feedback to staff.
To act as a communication channel between staff and students.
What exactly is a Course Rep?
Tasks
• Introduce yourself to your class• Gather student opinion• Provide feedback to staff and students• Present student views at meetings• Attend meetings• Speak to people outside of meetings• Develop solutions to issues• Pass issues onto The Students’ Union• Contribute to institutional activities
What exactly is a Course Rep?
• Communication• Listening• Networking• Relationship building• Reflection• Presentation• Organisation
• Report writing• Diplomacy• Negotiation• Research• Time management• Prioritisation
What exactly is a Course Rep?
Skills
• Learn new skills• CV material• Networking opportunities• Background for future Representational roles• Good experience for future employment• Can be validated through
Degree Plus Millennium Volunteers / Prestige Volunteers, contact Lucia Kearney in
Volunteer SU at [email protected]
• Make a difference
What exactly is a Course Rep?
Benefits
• A second year module is too difficult
• A handbook of resources would be more practical than online resources
• A broken elevator in the building
• Poor NSS completion results
• Assignment feedback taking too long
• Lack of student/ staff contact
• Unclear marking criteria
• Poor library resources for your course topic
• Time of the lecture is very late
• Lecturer is picking on me
• I don’t like the course
• I feel that student fees are too high
• I don’t think I should have failed an assignment
Do Don’t
What issues should I deal with as a Course Rep?
Signposting StudentsMore Detail in Your Course Rep Handbooks
• Introductory Training• Club Rooms in The Students’ Union• Resources Page – www.qubsu.org • Drop In Sessions, Student Officer Education
Dates in your Course Rep Handbook
• For advice and support in your role please contact: Student Officer Education, Hannah Niblock - [email protected] Student Voice, Damien Corridan – [email protected]
What supportwill I receive?
• Lecture Shout Outs - Hand up before/after class• Emails• Face to face chats• Online spaces: Facebook, Twitter, Internet, and Online
polls – see QUB Social Media Policy, Resources Section• Surveys• Post it notes in tutorials• Comment boxes• Focus groups• You may have other ideas we haven’t thought of…
How do I gather students’ opinions?
Feedback to Students
• The minutes of SSCC will be fed back to students via your School Student Liaison Officer, the School noticeboard, and website or QOL.
• Your School Rep will produce a newsletter each Semester with a summary of news from SSCC, Academic Board, and Student Union Council.
• What can I do? o Talk to studentso Lecture shout outso Social mediao Contribution to newslettero Other innovative means you come up with
provided you clear it with your Student Liaison Officer
Degree Plus?
Course Reps – Route B
• Attendance at: SSCC Training Sessions Apply via Degree Plus towards
the end of the year
School Reps – Route A
• Attendance at: SSCC as Chairperson Academic Board Student Council Training Sessions Student Rep Meetings
• Newsletter for Students• No application necessary, look out
for my email!
Queen’s Students’ Union Education Awards 2015/16
‘Rewards staff and students for working together to make sure the quality of education at QUB is the best it
can be’• 5 student awards – faculty Course Reps of the year, School Rep of the year
and Peer Mentor of the Year• 5 staff awards – awards for Most Inspiring/Motivating, Personal Tutor of
the Year, Feedback, Most Involved and Employability Champion• 2 school awards – Enterprise Champion and Best SSCC
Thank You
Any Questions?
