October 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
The next Student Parliament meeting will be on Tuesday 25th October at 9.15am at Maggie’s Bar.
All students are welcome to attend Parliament and help shapre your Students’ Union; below is the Agenda of the items which will be discussed.
Chair: Maciek Czajka
Co-Chair: Michelle Rush
September 21, 2011 Leave a Comment
General
QMU encourages and welcomes student involvement on its senior committees. We introduced a revised committee structure at the beginning of this academic year, and one of the key factors was how best we could engage students and provide opportunities for them to feed into decision making across the University and within each of the Schools. Some information on being a committee member is provided below: Read more of this post
September 21, 2011 Leave a Comment
The role
Class Reps act as official representatives for the class and are the first point of contact for any course issue. Class Reps have a positive role to play in enabling communication and constructive change within courses by:
- Being available to members of the class to receive students’ views regularly
- Raising issues with the Programme Leader as and when they occur
- Participating in Student Staff Consultative Committees and Programme Committees
- Giving feedback to their class on progress, changes and decisions relating to issues raised by students
- Raising persistent issues that remain unsolved with the Students’ Union
The number of hours will vary over the year. You should normally expect to spend 1-2 hours per week carrying out your role.
Benefits
- Develop transferable skills such as problem solving and communication skills
- Gain valuable experience for future employment
- An insight into the decision-making processes in Higher Education
- Experience for future representational roles
- Networking opportunities
- Making a difference
What’s next?
You don’t need previous experience to be Class Rep. If you are looking for a challenge and want to improve the student voice at QMU, then speak to your Programme Leader. Elections normally take place in the first few weeks of Semester 1.
You will be offered an initial training session and on going support to help you carry out your role.
Training dates:
Tuesday 11th October 11.00am-1.00pm
Thursday 20th October 1.00pm-3.00pm
Room to be confirmed
Being a Class Rep is more than just representing your class, you can also join the Student Parliament of the Students’ Union (www.qmusu.org.uk), be a student reviewer within the Quality Enhancement Unit (www.qmu.ac.uk/quality/) or join Sparqs as an Associate Trainer (www.sparqs.ac.uk)
Many people have found being an active Class Rep enjoyable, fulfilling and productive and with enthusiasm and energy you will be able to achieve a lot.
For more information contact us on classreps@qmu.ac.uk
