SSLC representatives and survey

Thanks to everyone who participated in our survey. Survey results and our prize winner will be announced later this week.

The SSLC (Student-staff liaison committee) is an initiative whose aim is to ensure that students’s voice is heard in matters regarding teaching and learning in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Each subject will have one or several student representatives. Their principal duty is to provide an accurate picture of student opinions and to be the bridge between the class and the lecturer, ensuring that concerns and comments are articulated to the lecturer. It is expected that this communication will take place as the need arises during the semester.

In addition, a short survey will serve as a more structured tool for polling the class. The survey will be conducted online; students taking at least one mathematics subject this semester will receive an email invitation to participate in the survey during the fourth week of lectures.

It is a desired feature of the SSLC process that concerns are raised in a timely fashion to allow eventual adjustments by the lecturer, if these are deemed appropriate. This will have an immediate positive impact on the subject, as opposed to the Subject Experience Survey (SES) whose influence is restricted to future instalments of the subject.

In the unlikely event that a student representative feels that a reported problem has not been addressed by the lecturer, the concern can be brought to the attention of:

As a last resort, the issue can be discussed with the Head of the Department; appointments can be made in the general office (room G30).

Here are the presentation slides from this semester’s meeting with the student representatives.