- Recommendations have been put together for the introduction of Turnitin next academic year - see www.thesu.com/content/index.php?page=21575 - based on student and staff responses
- I've been helping to resolve student concerns at Marston Road's rep forum, with the power interruption to services, Business rep forum and in Architecture...
- We've been discussing the future of the Students' Union further and identifying areas of commonality in the feedback we receive
- Preparing budgets for next year (finance=fun!)
- Holding Reps Councils to discuss Internationalisation of the Curriculum, semester structure, Turnitin and improving the rep system
- Attended Learning and Teaching Committee to discuss a new model for student support and tutoring, and progress on the Mode of Delivery
- Gave our awards to some outstanding reps at Awards Night!
18 April 2008
Championing students!
2 April 2008
Turnitin - students say...
Student opinion on Turnitin has been collected and will be used to form recommendations on its use next academic year...
Students say:
Use Turnitin on all work
Tell students about Turnitin as far in advance as possible and throughout their time at Brookes
Use Turnitin as a learning tool
Turnitin must be used as a learning tool at all Stages
See more at http://www.thesu.com/content/index.php?page=21575
Students say:
Use Turnitin on all work
Tell students about Turnitin as far in advance as possible and throughout their time at Brookes
Use Turnitin as a learning tool
Turnitin must be used as a learning tool at all Stages
See more at http://www.thesu.com/content/index.php?page=21575
16 March 2008
Cut up
- Spoke to students to encourage them to fill out the Turnitin questionnaire
- Encouraged students to fill in the National Student Survey
- Met with the Careers team to discuss current issues and projects they are working on
- Discussed how courses should be delivered at the Mode of Delivery Task Group
- Met with John Windle from Students' Union Evaluation initiative to identify areas that the Students' Union can improve on
- Did some singing at Staff Day!
- Discussed motions at Union Council
- Met with Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor, to discuss the rep system
8 March 2008
You give me fever
- Got election fever! - well done to all candidates for some great campaigning, particularly for VP:AA with a spectacular amount of votes!
- Held Reps Councils at Gipsy Lane, Harcourt Hill, Marston Road and Wheatley to discuss Turnitin, feedback about semester structure and how the Students' Union can deliver its principles
- Met with the themed audit team to discuss how to move student representation forward
- Received a lot of responses to the Turnitin questionnaire!
- Worked on SUEi - gathering evidence of how effective the Students' Union is
29 February 2008
BEFORE Christmas
Considerable consultation
- Ran a rep training on CVs with the Careers Centre
- Met to discuss Freshers plans
- Planned Vision 2011 focus groups and ran sessions with halls reps and SU candidates
- Attended Quality and Standards Committee to discuss the variation in degree classifications
- Welcomed Martin Wilkinson, from the University's Board of Governors, to our open Exec meeting - Martin is overseeing the Masterplanning and Mode of Delivery progress
- Spoke to students at Wheatley about becoming a student rep
- Spoke to students at Wheatley about semester structure
- Met with Head of Learning Resources and staff in Computer Services to discuss student issues and how we can work best together - we suggested a new security firm to make sure the new weekend opening hours at Headington can remain
- Had a rep forum in Life Sciences
23 February 2008
(Total) eclipse
- Asked students at Wheatley and Gipsy Lane - Exams before or after Christmas? Students say before Christmas.
- Met with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) to discuss semester structure and Turnitin
- Attended Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee to discuss Grant Panels and research students' inclusion in Masterplanning
- Finalised the Students' Union principles in light of student and staff feedback
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