Opportunities for you to use your voice
Your experience at the University of Glasgow is incredibly important to us and we are committed to ensuring that your voice is heard and valued. Whether you have feedback, concerns or suggestions, we want to know what is on your mind. Here are just a few of the ways htat you can use your voice to help us work together to make the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences even better! Don't forget you can always reach out to us at our dedicated student voice email inbox to share your thoughts too.
Student Representatives
Class, school and college representatives are elected students essential to both the University and the SRC. They allow you to air your views to the academics on issues like course content, teaching and resources. Students are also represented by general and welfare representatives to cover non-academic concerns.
Any student at the University can become a Class Rep. They are elected in class during the first few weeks of each semester with the class lecturer or course convenor organising a brief election. Find out more about Class Reps on the SRC website.
School, college, welfare and general representatives are elected during the official SRC elections in Spring and Autumn, and get to take part in council meetings, academic forums, welfare forums and learning and teaching committees, depending on their specific role. Find out more about the SRC council and what these roles involve on the SRC website.
Student / Staff Liaison Committee
Class reps may ask for your feedback ahead of their Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) meetings. Typically, these meetings consist of senior members of staff, administration staff and lecturers who get together with Class Reps to discuss any subject-wide or School-wide issues. As a class rep you will be invited to attend at least two of these in a year. If you have anything you wish to feedback, it is important you are aware of who your class rep is and reach out.
Informal Feedback
Informal Feedback may be gathered by lectures from time to time to help enhance learning and teaching. For example, to obtain student response to an innovation, assessment methods, student workload, suitability of textbooks or course materials or discuss learning and teaching during a course. This may be done through questionnaires, Moodle polls or other informal methods. Alternatively, you may request a meeting with your lecturer/course lead/programme lead during office hours to discuss matters or issues outside of typical reflection times (i.e end of year evaluations).
Course Evaluation Questionnaire
All courses must use a course questionnaire (also known as Evasys) as one of the methods used to solicit feedback from you. These are sent out once a semester, usually at the middle or end of the course. They use core questions outlined by the University, but some courses may add additional questions.
National Student Survey
The National Student Survey (NSS) is your chance to look back on your higher education experience as an undergraduate and speak out on everything from the teaching on your course, access to resources and equipment, and even about the student voice.