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Student-Staff Committee (SSC)
What We Do
The Student-Staff Committee (SSC) meets twice a term to discuss issues that affect all areas of the School of English, its undergraduates, and their degree courses - from the availability of books in the Library to the organisation of social events. More importantly, the committee is an essential forum for positive feedback to be given by students to the School on modules and courses, and it offers the opportunity for students to initiate improvements wherever possible.
How We Do It
One of the SSC's principal responsibilities are the evaluation questionnaires that students complete for the modules which they study each semester. The results of these questionnaires are compiled by the SSC's student members and then considered in detail in meetings, often leading to significant improvements in the way certain issues are handled by the both the School and the University more generally. You can see the summary of the results of the survey for Semester 1, 2011-2012, under Blackboard Admin for your year. Your comments are forwarded to each module convenor, discussed at a module meeting in depth, and used to implement improvements.
Meetings: dates, times and venues
What We’ve Done
The SSC has successfully helped to clarify the way the university bookshop orders books needed by our undergraduates, and it held a useful meeting with the bookshop's manager to do so. It also prompted specialist information seminars to be organised specifically for English students by the Library and by the University careers service. Traditionally though, the Committee has a sociable function. We established the English Society to organise theatre trips, guest speakers and social events to enable students from all years in the School to meet.
How You Can Help
By its very nature, the SSC relies entirely upon student input for it to 'work', both in terms of the student representatives who attend meetings and in terms of undergraduates contacting SSC members with important issues that need to be raised.
In order to represent everybody's interests in the School, mature students, international students, single subject, combined and supplementary students are welcome to join. Volunteering to be a representative is the best way to get your views heard. Apart from the obvious benefits of it looking great on your CV, the SSC is a genuine way to make a difference in the School. Your concerns are listened to and addressed. Moreover, it is a way for you to meet students from the entire School and to get to know your tutors informally.
How To Take Part
We are now looking for new members of the SSC! Please send the convenor, fj21@le.ac.uk, an email, or click on the contact form to register your interest in joining. We are particularly searching for first years from single and joint degrees, and are also interested in recruiting new reps from each year.
You don't have to be an SSC member to contribute. Make your views known by contacting committee members directly and they can raise your queries in subsequent meetings. You can do this using our contact form, by e-mailing members, or just drop a note in the SSC pigeon-hole (you can find it where your own pigeon-hole is on floor 13, at the very bottom on the right hand side.) In any case, SSC undergraduate members will make themselves known and can be approached at any time with any concerns, suggestions, and compliments.
