Purpose of the role:
As a Course Representative, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the student experience. Each tutor group or year group has a dedicated rep who acts as the bridge between students and faculty. Your main goal? Ensure that every student's voice is heard and that their concerns and suggestions are addressed.
What You'll Gain
Being a Course Rep offers a unique opportunity to develop valuable skills and experiences that will benefit you both personally and professionally. You'll gain:
- Leadership and Communication Skills: Learn how to effectively represent your peers and communicate their needs to faculty.
- Problem-Solving Abilities: Develop strategies to address and resolve student issues.
- Networking Opportunities: Build connections with faculty members and other student leaders.
- Confidence and Public Speaking: Gain experience presenting feedback in formal settings.
- Additional Opportunities: Participate in course approval processes, ensuring new courses meet student needs and standards, and sit on Appeals Panels, playing a key role in important academic decisions.
Responsibilities of the role of Course Rep:
As a Course Rep, you'll have a range of important responsibilities, including:
- Attending Course Feedback Forums: You'll represent your peers at these meetings, presenting feedback to faculty staff and advocating for changes that will improve the student experience.
- Signposting Students to Support Providers: Be the go-to person for your peers, guiding them to the appropriate support services when they need help.
- Listening to Feedback: Actively seek out and listen to the feedback and concerns of your fellow students, ensuring their voices are heard and their needs are met.
- Join your Student Voice Assembly: Represent your fellow students at meetings with campus and portfolio officers, run campaigns, vote on things that matter to your peers, and get involved in opportunities to help shape your Union.
WHY STAND FOR COURSE REP?
- Make a Real Impact: Your efforts will directly influence the quality of education and student life for your peers.
- Enhance Your CV: Stand out to future employers with demonstrated leadership and advocacy experience.
- Personal Growth: Gain confidence, develop new skills, and grow as an individual.
- Unique Opportunities: Engage in the course approval process and sit on Appeals Panels, contributing to significant academic and administrative decisions.
- Easy Recognition: We will provide you with a lanyard and digital badge to make sure your class know who you are.
Purpose of the role:
At ARU Peterborough, students have the opportunity to join a range of university committees that help shape the academic and student experience. These include the Academic Board (AB), Peterborough Quality Assurance Committee (PEQAC), the Peterborough Student Experience Committee (PSEC)
Each committee plays a vital role in areas like curriculum development, student feedback, academic quality, and strategic planning. By joining, you’ll represent the student voice, contribute tomeaningful decisions, and gain valuable experience in leadership and governance. It’s a chance tomake a real impact on your university journey and the future of ARU Peterborough.
What You'll Gain
Being a committee member offers a wealth of opportunities for personal and professional development. You'll gain:
- Advanced Leadership Skills: Hone your ability to lead and represent a diverse group of students.
- Strategic Thinking: Develop insights into faculty-wide policies and contribute to long-term planning.
- Extensive Networking: Connect with senior faculty members, university administrators, and student leaders.
- Public Speaking and Advocacy: Build confidence as you present feedback and proposals in formal settings.
- Additional Opportunities: Participate in high-level decision-making processes and play a critical role in the academic governance of your faculty.
Responsibilities of the role of a committee member:
As a committee member, you'll take on a variety of important responsibilities, including:
- Attending Committee Meetings: Represent your peers at these meetings, voicing student feedback and advocating for improvements. These take place oncer a Trimester.
- Gathering and Presenting Feedback: Proactively seek feedback from students across your faculty and present it to faculty staff.
WHY JOIN A COMMITTEE?
- Drive Positive Change:Influence policies and initiatives that directly affect students.
- Boost Your CV: Demonstrate your leadership, advocacy, and strategic thinking skills to future employers.
- Grow Personally and Professionally: Gain invaluable experience and develop a broad skill set that will benefit you in any career.
- Engage in High-Level Decision Making: Be part of important faculty meetings, contributing to significant academic decisions.
APPLY NOW
At ARU Peterborough, we believe in empowering students to shape their university experience. There are several forums you can get involved in, each offering a unique way to share feedback, raise concerns, and help drive positive change.
COURSE FEEDBACK FORUM:
This forum is exclusively for Course Reps, who bring forward feedback gathered from their classmates. It’s a space to work directly with academic staff to discuss course-specific issues and collaborate on practical solutions. If you're a Course Rep, this is your chance to make a real difference in your course experience.
UNIVERSITY FEEDBACK FORUM:
Open to all students, this forum is your opportunity to speak directly with senior university leaders, including Vice Principals Lucy Jones and Jamie Jones. Whether it’s about campus facilities, the café, toilets, or any aspect of university life, this is the place to ask questions, share ideas, and get answers. This forum takes place once a Trimester, you will find dates in the get involved section of our website.
STUDENT VOICE ASSEMBLIES:
Run by the Union, these monthly assemblies are open to all students and provide a platform to speak with your Campus Officer. It’s a space for open discussion, where your voice is heard and your concerns are championed. The Campus Officer is there to represent you and push for change on the issues that matter most to students. Find out dates and times in the get involved section of our website.