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Welcome to the University of Bath Students' Union! Congratulations on gaining a place at the University of Bath and I hope you're looking forward to the exciting year ahead. As a student studying at one of our partner colleges or a partner organisation affiliated to the University of Bath you automatically become a member of the University of Bath Students' Union, a collective organisation of around 13,000 students spread across eight different campuses. Getting involved with the Students’ Union is one of the best things I’ve done since I came to University and I would absolutely recommend it to you! There are so many ways to get involved, from voting in our online polls and elections, to buying clothing from the SU Shop or attending our Summer Ball.
The Students' Union exists to represent you, the members and provide you with services, support and opportunities for development. We want to ensure you have the best possible experience as a student! We represent your interests, academically (through our Academic Reps system), socially (thanks to our Events, Clubs and Societies) and democratically (through Union Council and online Elections). You have the opportunity to run your Union at every level - be it acting as an academic representative for your course, captaining a sports team, helping out as volunteer, becoming a student trainer or running in the Sabbatical elections, like I did to become President - the Union depends on people like you getting involved at every level.
We are committed to supporting your specific needs. With this in mind, we appoint a sabbatical officer (one of our Full Time student officers) to be a first point of contact for you and to help administer our activities with you. Shortly you will be also electing your campus / college representative, who will support you during your time with us. They will be liaising with our team in the Academic Representation Centre so that we know if there are any problems or issues facing you that need tackling.
On top of that, we really want to make sure you know what is going on in the Students’ Union so we will also be distributing Impact, the student newspaper to your campus. Further to this, we want to make sure you are up-to-date with other news from the student community, so we will be posting lots of current news stories and information on www.BathStudent.com. You will even have the opportunity to purchase tickets for SU events via the website’s e-shop. I’d recommend that in the next few weeks you take a few moments to have a look round our website, as it has all the information you need to find out more about the Students’ Union, what it has to offer and how you can get the most out of your years at this University.
I hope you have a fantastic year but please always feel free to email me and the other Sabbatical Officers - sabbs@bath.ac.uk - with any questions, queries or ideas you may have.
Alex Nicholson-Evans
SU President
Sabbatical officers are ordinary students elected by you to run the Students’ Union. Each sabb has a specific area of responsibility. Additionally every all students who are not based on the Claverton Down campus have the opportunity to contact and seek help from a sabb who is responsible for their college. To find out who the sabb of your college is, please click here.
Every student is automatically a member of the University of Bath Students’ Union (BUSU) and entitled to full privileges and benefits of membership. It costs nothing to be a member of BUSU, but you can opt out if you wish by informing the SU President in writing.
To join the Students' Union and access to its services and activities, log on to the BUSU website. Please note that you will first have to complete your University registration.
Staff/Student Liaison Committees are department or college based meetings made up of Academic representatives and members of staff. They are an invaluable tool for colleges and departments to receive feedback from students on proposed changes to a course structure, curriculum or syllabus. Please read more about SSLCs here.
Should you be interested in the issues your SSLC has been recently been dealing with, please read Minutes of SSLC Meetings.
Academic reps take part in Students’ Union’s Academic Council meetings which deal with larger academic issues affecting all students across the University. Meetings are held separately for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students to help both groups focus on issues which are more relevant to them.
Integrated Quality and Enhancement Review: a guide for students is most useful for Academic Reps and staff who support them. It is an external review which is intended to improve the quality of learning and teaching at your college. Almost every college of further education in the UK is due to take part of the review within the next few years.
Academic, Welfare, Advice and Representation Centre (AWARE) is there to provide advice and information on a range of issues, from academic to housing, health & personal issues. So if you need help with anything linked to your course such as changing your course, submitting mitigating circumstances, appeal a mark or problems with how an assessment has been carried out, the AWARE staff are here to help you. The AWARE centre also provides free legal advice, and has links to all of the other support services on campus, including counselling, student money service and learning support. If the AWARE staff can not address your problem, they will find someone who can.
Nightline operates from Wednesday to Sunday from 8pm until 8am and is a confidential listening and support service, run by students for students. Call 01225 383030 or drop into AWARE if you are visiting the campus.