Posted on Thu 21 Feb 2013 at 13:30 by
Swaran Singh
At the start of this month, the Students’ Union held its first series of College Subject Rep forums. One of the themes that came out consistently was that students were not getting good quality feedback / assessment results back early enough.
Believe it or not (click here if you don’t), the University has a policy which all the Colleges signed up to at the beginning of the new year saying that they'd get results / constructive feedback to students within 3 weeks of you handing in your assignment / sitting an exam.
As this hasn’t happened in a lot of cases, I have decided to take action and launch a 3 stage campaign as part of our ‘Access All Areas’ work.
Stage 1) explaining to as many students as we can what the University have promised us.
Look out for this leaflet: https://www.swansea-union.co.uk/pageassets/education/accessallareas/fairfeedbackassessment/Your-rights-on-feedback.pdf and
Look out for these stickers: https://www.swansea-union.co.uk/asset/Blog/2/stickers.pdf
Timescale: 22nd Feb – 15th March
Stage 2) In all instances where feedback has been late or poor, we will get Subject Reps to investigate why.
They will also lobby for an action plan for that Subject Area. The Students’ Union will publish this for all students to see.
Timescale: 15th March – 22nd March
Stage 3) Forming a Students’ Union charter on assessment and feedback.
Subject Reps will outline their expectations of the University assessment and feedback policy which future Education Officers will be able to use to develop and put forward alternative ideas to current University policy.
Timescale: 22nd March - May 31st
If you’ve got any questions or want to help, drop me an email: educationofficer@swansea-union.co.uk