Student Voice

be safe: be heard

We would like you to be involved in discussing and deciding on things that affect you during your time in college. We want to hear what you have to say so we can change what we do and develop new ideas. The main focus will be your experience as a student and on issues that affect you both in and outside the classroom. This may include things such as access to sports, trips outside, general issues such as bullying or discipline or debates on issues such as the environment, healthy living or drug use. You will also be involved with helping us to agree and plan some of the Wednesday afternoon enrichment activities and the cross college events such as Health or Diversity days.

How to make your Voice Heard

Course Representative

Each course will elect two Course Representatives.

a. These ‘reps’ will be collectively know as the Student Council. The Student Council will meet at least once a term to talk about issues that are important to you such as the refectory, resources, the experiences of students with disabilities, behaviour, enrichment or any other topics that you want to speak out about and change.
b. These ‘reps’ will also go to the Curriculum Feedback sessions that will take place twice a year with your Curriculum Manager. These sessions will give you the chance to talk about your views of your course, teaching, resources and the things you would like to change or develop.

Course Representatives will be given tutorial time to talk to groups before and after these meetings.

The Learner Surveys take place 3 times a year. These are for all students and give us an idea of how you feel about key issues; your experiences of starting at college, the teaching and learning and what it is like to be a student at City College.

For more information about the role of a course representative please see the links below:

Why become a course rep?
What do course reps do?
Student Voice Diary 2009
The role of a Student Governor?
Feedback from the 2008 Student Voice Conference.

Student Governor

Each year two Student Governors will be elected. One Student Governor will be a higher education student and the other a further education student.

Student Governors attend College Corporation meetings to represent the views of students at the College’s highest decision making level.

The Student Governor will be elected from the Student Council. Once the Course Representatives have been elected by their course groups, Student Services will contact them to invite them to nominate themselves for the role of the Student Governor. The nominees will be asked to complete an application which details why they think they are a good candidate for the role.

Following the Student Council Welcome meeting on 21st October 2009, the Course Representative will be asked to vote for their choice of candidate for the role of Student Governor.

The candidate with the most votes will be announced on Friday 30th October 2009.

Student Voice Programme

For 2009/10 the Student Voice Programme is:

Term 1

Election of Course Representatives from 12th October 2009
Learner Voice Survey 1 from 12th October 2009
Student Council Welcome Meeting Wed 21st October 2009
Curriculum Feedback session 1 from 2nd November 2009
Student Council Meeting 1 Wed 2nd December 2009

Term 2

Learner Voice Survey 2 from 4th January 2010
Student Council Meeting 2 Wed 24th February 2010

Term 3

Student Council Meeting 3 Wed 28th April 2010
Curriculum Feedback session 2 from 3rd May 2010
Learner Survey 3 from 10th May 2010

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