8.1 Student Representatives
Each year, we ask students to volunteer for the role of student representative. Student representation plays a vital and important part in helping us to maintain and improve the quality of the services and programmes that we provide.
The role of a student representative has three aspects:
- To liaise between staff and students on matters of concern to either side
- To provide two-way feedback on the course and on teaching quality
- To promote active student involvement in course development
Student representatives are also invited to speak confidentially to our external examiner at the end of the academic year, and to participate in our end-of-year course review meetings. Representatives can participate by attending meetings in person or by teleconference. Representatives will be asked to feedback information from these meetings to the other students.
We usually recruit 5 or 6 student representatives each year to cover the range of public health programmes. You will receive an email at the start of the academic year from the MPH Administration Team asking for volunteers for the positions. Representatives should be studying at least 1 course unit in the current academic year. If more than 6 students put themselves forwards, a vote may be held or if you are a part-time student you may be asked to stand in a later year. If you wish to nominate yourself for the role of student representative, please contact mph.admin@manchester.ac.uk.
Each student will act as a rep for one year, unless they express a desire to continue, in which case they may put themselves forwards again. In this instance, students who have yet to act as a representative will take precedent.
8.2 Student Feedback
Your feedback is part of an on-going process of programme and course unit assessment. At the end of each semester you will be asked to complete an anonymous on-line evaluation questionnaire for each course unit you have taken. At the end of your programme you will also be asked to complete a general evaluation for your overall programme of study.
The university also requests that students complete a PTES (Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey) once a year. This information is quite different from that collected by the programme and we would encourage you to complete both.
Information about both unit surveys and PTES will be sent directly to you through the student portal. The end of programme survey will be emailed to you on completion of your programme.
