1. Representation of your issues Teaching & Learning Postgrad Forum Welfare Academic Services External Students’ Representative Council - like a Parliament of around 100 students You ISSUE School Rep SRC Sub-committees: YOUR SCHOOL ISSUE YOUR COURSE Student – Staff Liaison committee University Committees ( Senate; Senate & College Committees) College Committees

2. Committees Committees you are expected to attend: → Staff Student Liaison Meeting: → Organised by Subject Areas → Class reps and academic staff on a particular course → Range from formal to informal in format → Normally at least once a Semester → Aim: to discuss course related issues → Departmental/School secretary should contact you to invite you. If you do not hear anything within the first few weeks – get in touch with them.

3. School Reps and School Councils → School Reps: → School Reps in your School may organise School Council meetings, or ask for your participation in online surveys, lunch meetings etc → Aims: → To discuss your issues, share what’s happening in your School/ideas for what to ask for & how to resolve your issues → let School reps know what’s happening so they can take issues up at School level and through the SRC

4. Committees Committees you may wish/find it useful to attend: → Teaching and Learning/Academic Services Committees → Academic Committees of the SRC → Any student can attend; students can be co-opted on to the committee to get voting rights → AIM: → to discuss T&L or AS (library, computers etc) issues → to make policy that will go before SRC → To organise and run campaigns → Students’ Representative Council (SRC): accountable to you: → you can attend SRC, although you will not have voting rights - though you can stand for election to SRC in future years! → See how your issues are taken forward!

5. Key Contacts Course Organiser → This will be your key academic contact → Some issues you will be able to take directly to them for resolution → Communication should be a two way process – your course organiser may ask you for input as well as listen when you come to them with an issues School Representative → You should keep in touch with your School Rep → They may be able to help you resolve issues: → if there are wider implications than just for your course → They may know of how similar issues have been resolved elsewhere

6. Key Contacts EUSA Staff → EUSA is here to help you! Based in Potterrow, we can advise you if you are not sure how to take an issues forward → We have years of experience working with class reps and know how the University works → Drop in to the EUSA Office, call or email: class.reps@eusa.ed.ac.uk Stevie Wise, EUSA Vice President Academic Affairs: → Elected Sabbatical student, responsible to you! → Contact her at any point for advice and support → vpaa@eusa.ed.ac.uk

7. Ongoing Academic Issues