At the end of the day, our education is the reason everyone is here and as your education officer, I want to make sure that you are getting the best possible academic experience you can. It won’t be easy but when the going gets rough…the Raff gets going!

• Synchronisation – Academic co-operation on all levels
• Distribute workload evenly across the academic year, to minimise student stress!
• Ensure workload is reflective of module credit weighting
• Swifter and more personalised feedback on assessments
• Transparency – Eliminate unclear and arbitrary academic practices
• Make criteria crystal clear when assessments are set and relate any feedback straight back to these criteria
• Students will never just receive a mark for coursework, but also justification as to why that mark was awarded – always.
• Make provisions for exam complaints easier
• Equality – Bring all schools up to the same standard
• Standardise use of technology across schools, including lecture capture
• More high-demand core texts available in libraries for all subjects
• More availability of exam scripts across modules and schools
• Efficiency – Make best use of our university’s fantastic resources
• Training sessions for staff about lecture capturing technology – (250/300 lecture theatres are fitted with the technology, why are they not being used?)
• Develop a set of minimum standards for the use of Moodle
• Make sure the Great Results Incident of 2013 never reoccurs – (Portal crash after results were released)
• Revitalisation – More engaging personal tutor involvement
• Develop a framework for personal tutors to follow, for more effective tutor meetings
• More frequent and longer meetings with your tutors when you want them
• Get tutors to fill out a short form detailing how they will approach their responsibilities at the start of each term – (only departments do this currently)

STEERing us to a better education.
Get your voice heard, vote Raff.