A great representative listens to you and helps make change happen. Course reps work with university staff to improve the academic experience at your university, according to what the students want to see.
Sign-Up to be a Course Rep!
If you'd like to be a course rep for your course next academic year, all you have to do is sign up through the survey below! If you were a course rep this year and would like to continue in the role next year, you must sign up again.
The Course Rep sign-up form will be open until Friday, May 31st.
The roles that you can sign up for through this survey are:
Purpose
Course Representatives are the foundation of student representation, promoting a partnership between students, academic staff, and SU. They ensure that the experience and feedback of their peers are represented throughout their studies.
Term of Office: One academic year
Objectives
Provide students with opportunities to give feedback on all aspects of their experience such as:
- Learning and Teaching
- Assessment & Feedback
- Learning Community
- Employability
- Campus Facilities
- Wellbeing & Support
- Seek to resolve feedback informally with appropriate staff (see key contacts).
- Provide agenda items highlighting academic feedback and present them at the Student Staff Liaison Group (SSLG).
- Endeavour to make sure that feedback is: Accurate, Balanced, Constructive, Depersonalised & Evidenced.
- Work in partnership with your course leaders, lecturers, tutors, and admin teams to ensure your cohort is kept up to date about how feedback is being actioned.
Attends
- SU Course Rep Training
- Student Staff Liaison Group (SSLG) - Once a Study Block
- SU Big Rep Meeting - Once a year
- Informal meetings with academic staff, Department Rep, SU President and/or SU
Key Contacts
- Department Rep for your department
- SU President Falmouth
- SU Academic Representation & Advocacy Coordinator
- Course leader
- Tutors and Lecturers
- Department Admin teams
- Fellow reps from your course in other year groups
Purpose
Course Reps are the foundation of student representation, promoting a partnership between students, academic staff, and SU. They ensure that the experience and feedback of their peers are represented throughout their studies
Term of Office: One academic year
Objectives
Provide students with opportunities to give feedback on all aspects of their experience such as:
- Learning and Teaching
- Assessment & Feedback
- Learning Community
- Employability
- Campus Facilities
- Wellbeing & Support
- Seek to resolve feedback informally with appropriate staff (see key contacts).
- Provide agenda items highlighting academic feedback and present them at the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC).
- Endeavour to make sure that feedback is: Accurate, Balanced, Constructive, Depersonalised & Evidenced.
- Work in partnership with your department staff to ensure that your cohort are kept up to date on how feedback is being actioned.
- Make yourself known and promote the Rep system to the students you represent.
Attends
- SU Student Rep Training
- Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) – Once a term
- SU Big Rep Meeting – Once a year
- Informal meetings with academic staff, Subject Chair, SU President and/or SU
Key Contacts
- Your fellow course reps
- Subject chair for your department
- EDI Reps for your department
- SU President Exeter
- SU Academic Representation & Advocacy Coordinator
- Student Experience Coordinator
- Director of Education and Student Experience (DESE) for your department.
- Tutors and Lecturers
Purpose
Work alongside Course Reps and Subject Chairs to monitor and champion Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. EDI Reps gather feedback from students in minoritised groups and share this feedback with fellow reps and their department making sure that these discussions are mindful of the whole student community.
Term of Office: One academic year
Objectives
- Maintain a working understanding of EDI issues and how they may affect students in your cohort.
- Gather feedback from student in minoritised groups, notably BAME, International, Disabled, LGBTQ+ and Mature students.
- Represent EDI issues at the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) and occasionally attend other meetings to provide feedback and discuss actions.
- Regularly meet with other EDI Reps to share concerns raised across department to feedback to a higher level via The SU.
- Seek to resolve feedback informally with appropriate staff (see key contacts).
- Provide agenda items highlighting academic feedback and present them at the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC).
- Endeavour to make sure that feedback is: Accurate, Balanced, Constructive, Depersonalised & Evidenced.
- Work in partnership with your department staff to ensure that your cohort are kept up to date on how feedback is being actioned.
- Make yourself known and promote the Rep system to the students you represent.
Attends
- SU Student Rep Training
- Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) – Once a term
- SU Big Rep Meeting – Once a year
- Informal meetings with academic staff, Subject Chair, SU President and/or SU
Key Contacts
- Course Reps for your department
- Subject chair for your department
- Your fellow EDI reps
- SU President Exeter
- SU Academic Representation & Advocacy Coordinator
- Student Experience Coordinator
- Director of Education and Student Experience (DESE) for your department.
- Tutors and Lecturers
If you want to know more about how to become a representative for the 2024/25 academic year, please email studentvoice@thesu.org.uk.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have some questions before you sign up? Please check our FAQ below!
Why is my course/year group not listed in the sign up form?
This is most likely because we have enough reps for your course/year group! We are no longer accepting reps for the following courses/year groups:
FALMOUTH
- BA Animation Year 2
- BA Drawing Year 2
- BA Film Year 2
- BA Fine Art Year 3
- BA Game Development subject area Year 3
- BA Illustration Year 2
- BA Interior Design (online) Year 2
- BA Interior Design (online) Year 3
- BA Media Production Year 2
- BA Musical Theatre Year 2
- BA Musical Theatre Year 3
- BA Photography (online) Year 2
- BA Post Production & Visual Effects Year 2
- BA Television Year 3
EXETER
- BMBS (Medicine) Year 3
- BSc Business Year 2
- BSc Business & Environment Year 3
- BA History & Politics Year 3
- Law w/ Business Year 2
- Law w/ Business Year 3
- BSc Marine Biology Year 2
- BA Politics and International Relations Year 2
If your course is not in this list/you believe you should still be able to sign up to be a rep, please contact studentvoice@thesu.org.uk
Course reps collect feedback from their course cohort to present in meetings with course staff, and then work with course staff to find solutions to any problems and bring about any changes students would like to see.
Exeter also have specialist reps who focus on specific areas of your academic experience, such as EDI and employability.
You can find out more about what a course rep does here!
How much time would I have to commit to the role?
For Falmouth, you will need to attend a Student-Staff Liaison Group (SSLG) meeting once a study block, which are normally around 2 hours long. You may also also be invited to check-ins with your department rep, and would need to put in some hours to collect and write up feedback ahead of the SSLG. We estimate that you need to commit 8 hours to the role per study block.
For Exeter, you will attend an Student Staff Liaison Group (SSLC) once every term, which are normally around 2 hours long. You may also be invited to check-ins with your Subject Chair, and would need to put in some hours to collect and write up feedback ahead of the SSLC. We estimate that you need to commit 8 hours to the role per term (though this is usually less in 3rd term).
If you still can't find the answer to your questions, you can contact us at StudentVoice@thesu.org.uk