1.5 Feedback and Representation
1.5.2 Improving feedback mechanisms and ensuring effective student representation of Academic Affairs in Colleges
Summary of Strategy
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Strategic Aim |
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Appropriate bodies and student representatives |
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1.5 Feedback and representation |
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1.5.2 Improving feedback mechanisms and ensuring effective student representation in Faculties |
§ Illustrate and disseminate better feedback mechanisms across Faculties and Departments. |
§ CUSU AAO § CUSU FLO through: § Student FBMs |
Strategy
1.5.2 Improving feedback mechanisms and ensuring effective student representation in Faculties
To improve teaching, students should have available and make use of comprehensive feedback mechanisms within their Faculties also. These mechanisms should allow for both good practices and bad practices to be drawn to the attention of relevant Faculty staff. Students should be assured by and have appropriate knowledge of the consequences of their feedback. While it is often common that Faculties will have feedback forms, the consequence of filling these forms in is often non-apparent. CUSU should encourage Faculties through the Student Faculty Board Members to be open regarding how they use the feedback and to "close the loop"; so that students feel their feedback is being acted upon. Equally as with Colleges, some Faculties make great efforts to ensure students fill in feedback forms, for example, allowing for them to be filled in electronically and sent by email.
The University and CUSU should encourage an active role for student representatives on Faculty Boards. Some Student Faculty Board Members play an active role within the Faculty and provide a resource to the faculty in terms of a bridge between the student body and the higher powers. Other Faculties however have less active Student Faculty Board Members, and also are less proactive in trying to encourage them to get involved. CUSU should promote in conjunction with the University examples of best practice, in order to ensure that Student Faculty Board members play an active role within their Faculties.
Ongoing Action: CUSU to continue to run Student Faculty Board training in conjunction with the University. CUSU to promote the open discussion of feedback and actions taken as a result of feedback by Faculties to their Student Faculty Board Members, either at a Faculty Board level or in a Teaching Committee, in order to build and maintain student confidence in the value of feedback.
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