Membership and Remit of the UG Student Staff Consultative Committee

Membership of the Committee

The Year Representatives and two student members of the School Teaching and Learning Committee (if not already present) are expected to attend, as is the Director of Teaching, Quality Assurance Officer, and School Manager (for administrative support). All elected Module Representatives and the Arts and Divinity Senate Student Representative are eligible to attend. Up to three additional members of the teaching staff may be invited to attend by the Director of Teaching. The intention is that teaching staff membership of the SSCC should not normally exceed five representatives and should not be in the majority.

Remit

The remit of the SSCC is:

to facilitate greater communication between students and staff within a School; to enable students and staff jointly to participate in routine reviews of the School provision of teaching and learning, with a view to improving its quality; to provide a forum in which students taking modules in Divinity may raise any concerns they have about teaching or related matters within the School; to identify and disseminate examples of good practice; to provide documentary evidence of the participation of students in the quality assurance and development of programmes delivered by the School. Frequency of Meeting

The SSCC should meet once per semester. Additional meeting(s) may be convened by the Director of Teaching, if deemed necessary by him/her or the Head of School.

Structure and Procedure

The 3000-Level Junior Honours Representative should draw up the agenda for the meeting in consultation with the Director of Teaching, and should convene and chair the meeting. The agenda should include the following standard items:

Reports from Year Representatives. Reports should summarise internal systems of accountability for individual modules, notably module questionnaires, and outline any particular causes of concern. Where appropriate, Module Representatives may speak directly to the reports they submitted to their Year Representative; Report from student member(s) of the School Teaching and Learning Committee on discussion of SSCC business at this Committee; Opportunity for general comment on degree programmes; Opportunity for general comment on new and revised degree programme developments; Opportunity to mention examples of good teaching practice; Opportunity for general comment on library, IT and other teaching/learning resources.

The agenda should be posted on the appropriate School notice board before the date of a meeting of an SSCC.