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At the University of Exeter we take student engagement very seriously. We encourage you to get involved in making a positive difference while you’re here, both in terms of your education experience and in your contribution to society more widely. Student engagement opportunities can also contribute towards the Exeter Award and your HEAR (Higher Education Achievement Report), so are also great ways to enhance your employability.

All students are encouraged to offer in-module and end-of-module feedback. You can contact the module lead with any constructive feedback about a module at any time, and then at the end of each module you’ll be asked to provide anonymous feedback usually in the form of a survey. We take the results of these surveys very seriously, and use them to consider changes to module and assessment design that take students’ experiences fully into account. It’s your chance to influence how we deliver education in the College of Medicine and Health, so please do respond as fully and constructively as you can.

For those of you who want to engage in more regular activity to ensure the student voice is heard, there are two main ways you can get involved in student representation in the College of Medicine and Health: joining a student-staff liaison committee (SSLC), or working with other students and/or staff on a ‘Change Agents’ project.


Student-Staff Liaison Committees (SSLCs)

SSLCs are groups of elected student representatives who meet with staff on a regular basis throughout term time to discuss how things are going with your course. Across the whole university, there will be around 400 course representatives, 45 subject chairs, and 6 College Officers, led by the Guild’s Vice-President (Education), a post held this year by Bella Enoizi.

All students are eligible to apply to be an SSLC ‘rep’ for your programme. You can do this from September. You can see more details here.

If you want to be able to give feedback about your course but you don’t want to stand as an SSLC representative, then you can pass feedback onto your elected programme representatives who will then feedback to staff on your behalf.

You can find out who your Subject Chairs and Reps are here

Students as Change Agents and Partners

‘Students as Change Agents and Partners’ is the University’s philosophy and pathway for empowering students to actively improve the University experience for themselves and their peers. Every change suggested is explored and implemented through an individual project.

Students’ involvement varies in each project; they can either take a leading role in running a project, as a Change Agent, or they can work with staff to deliver a project, as a Partner. Students registered through the scheme receive support and training to effect each change, and are able to develop and demonstrate experience in leadership, teamwork and project management.

Click here to discover more about how to get involved.

Last modified: Tuesday, 22 August 2023, 11:47 AM