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We know you take your studies seriously. SUSU exists to represent you to the University, ensuring you get the education you’re paying for. We look after your School Presidents and Course Reps, who in turn look after you and make sure everything on your course is running smoothly. Outside of University matters, we’re also here to make sure your voice is heard on anything that directly affects you, from matters within the local community to your views on national issues such as top-up fees.
Your Course Reps are elected by the students on your course and are intended to be your first port of call if you have any academic problems or queries regarding your course. They’re chosen individually for each course and their responsibility is to represent you to make sure that you are happy with the way that your course is run. They are overseen by the School President of each academic school.
Student course representatives ensure that the Students’ Union and the University are aware of issues, both good and bad, that are current from the student perspective. They play a key role in ensuring students have a voice, as well as keeping the student body informed as to key issues and events which may be occurring within both the Students’ Union, and more importantly the University. The most important of all reasons for having course reps, is that they provide an honest and well informed student view about the quality of the teaching and learning they receive.
Each academic school has a president who is elected by the students of that school to represent them overall as a school. They oversee course reps and represent the students of their school at Union Council.
School Presidents liaise with Course Reps from their school and keep an overall picture of any issues that arise, as well as feeding the necessary information to their faculty.
School Presidents also keep in close contact with the VP Academic Affairs, and must attend the Academic Representation Committee meetings within the Students’ Union, which take place once every three weeks during term time.
Faculty Representatives also sit at the (University) Faculty level meetings along with the Postgraduate Officer, attending the Faculty Education Forum Committee, twice termly. They take a supervisory role over School Presidents and Course Reps, in order to gain a wider understanding of the common issues that are arising within the Schools of their Faculty.
