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Academic Representatives are students, elected by their fellow students, on their course and in the same year. They raise student issues to your department and at a University-wide level. Further information about the Reps and how you can be one is available here.
Reps are there to represent you! Should you have some academic issues or concerns, or a new idea about how your course could be better run, your rep is the first person to contact. It is therefore important that your rep is approachable, motivated and concerned about your issues. You can vote for who you think is the best person to do this!
You can cast your vote online from 12th to 16th October. Click here to read your candidates manifestos and cast your vote.
Further information on Reps
Please read more about Reps’ role and how to become a rep here.
Staff/Student Liaison Committees are departmental meetings made up of equal numbers of Academic representatives and members of staff. They are an invaluable tool for departments to receive feedback from students on proposed changes to a course structure, curriculum or syllabus. You can read more about SSLCs and how to get involved here.
Academic Reps make up the Students’ Union’s Academic Council, where larger academic issues affecting students across the University are brought up and dealt with. Meetings are held separately for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students to help both groups focus on issues which are more relevant to them.
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.
Please click here to read about the opportunities which the University and the SU can offer you to further your degree and employability.
Return of the inter-semester break
Refurbishment of some lecture theatres
Placement reviews
Academic Rep hoodies
Personal tutor reviews
Separate Academic Council for Postgrads