Student Voice and Student Consultation Newsletter April 2024
There's lots of exciting opportunities to get involved with:
OU Students Association By-Elections
Could you represent students in the OU Students Association's Student Leadership Team?
The Association's 2025 by-elections will run from Tuesday 11 March - Friday 9 May. You can have your say on which students you want to represent you in the following roles:
- Vice President Community & Engagement
- Vice President Student Welfare
- Vice President Adiminstration
- Area Representative - Scotland
- Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Student Representative
- Disabled Student Representative
- Faculty Representative - Business & Law
- Faculty Representative - Open & Access
- LGBTQIA+ Student Representative
Read more about the student candidates and vote on the Association's website.
OU Students Association: Become a Student Representative
Are you passionate about representation? Become a Student Representative!
Use your voice to influence positive change and gain valuable skills to add to your CV. In this role you’ll listen to issues your peers are facing and represent their experiences, uplifting the Student Voice and helping current and future OU students thrive.
Got any questions? Join a drop-in session to find out more! Applications aren’t open for long, so read more and apply on the Association's website.
QAA Value for Money Project
The Quality Assurance Agency is running a survey for students on value for money.
Ensuring value for money in higher education has in recent years become an increasingly urgent concern for students, their families and the general public, and a strategic priority for tertiary regulators across the UK, as well as a key policy consideration for the Department of Education and the governments of the devolved nations of the UK. These survey responses contribute to an evidence-base which will inform a policy briefing which will be presented to higher education sector decision-makers. Quality Assurance Agency
Student Consultation Online Forum: Thank You and Upcoming Forums
We are super grateful for everyone who has been engaging in our recent Student Consultation Online Forums - we've been super busy!
Look out for the summaries of the recent forums being published very soon.
After the current forums close, we will be taking a short break over May for exams and EMAs. We'll be back with new forums in June!
Student Consultation Meetings: Thank You
We loved seeing so many students at the Student Consultation Meetings across the four nations and online in early April. Hundreds of students had the opportunity to discuss the AI Digital Assistant, Making Student Support Services Esaier to Use, Tutorials, SST and Tutors with the OU Students Association, Student Charter, Higher Education Funding in Ireland, and the Race Equality Charter.
We are now analysing all your ideas and feedback and will be producing a summary of the feedback soon. We are also beginning to work on your ideas and making positive changes from them. We aim to report back on what we've done with your feedback later in Summer.
Languages and Applied Linguistics; Periodic Quality Review
The School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the OU is undergoing a Periodic Quality Review (PQR). The PQR, which takes place every six years, is a process through which modules and qualifications are reviewed by an independent panel consisting of two OU staff members, one OU student reviewer and one or more external reviewer(s). This forms part of the University’s quality assurance and quality enhancement activities. The review panel would like the opportunity to meet with a few of our students who are studying Languages and Applied Linguistics to learn more about the quality of their experience. An overview of topics the panel would like to discuss / questions they would like to ask will be shared for consideration ahead of the meeting. This one-hour meeting will take place online using Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 4th June at 17:30-18:30
Any feedback you provide to the review panel during the review event will be anonymised before being shared with the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics and will be used only to improve the student experience and the performance of Languages and Applied Linguistics modules and qualifications.
If you’re interested in participating and are available at the time of the meeting, please email aqs-mailbox@open.ac.uk with the following information:
- V Full name (including title)
- Personal Identifier (PI number)
- E-mail address
- Area Representative - Scotland
- BQualification currently studying towards
- Current module and list of previous modules studied
The deadline for receiving expressions of interest is Friday 2nd May.
Students will be selected at random by the Academic Quality and Standards team, who are responsible for organising the review, making sure there is a representative balance of levels, qualifications and modules. As a thank you for their time, students who attend the meeting will receive a £25 voucher after the event.
We look forward to hearing from you!
LAL PQR Team
Please note the personal information requested above will be processed in accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We need this information to randomly select participants for the PQR and contact those students. The e-mail address you supply to us will be shared with the other students participating in the meeting. Further details on how we process your personal data is set out in the student privacy notice. The personal information we hold for the PQR event will be deleted within 6 months of the review taking place.
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