Student representatives will be nominated and appointed at the beginning of the first year of the programme and will remain as student representative for the duration of the
programme.
The primary role of student representatives is to provide the University with a balanced view of the perceptions of the student body of the quality and standards of the education and services being provided. They may also participate in the review and development of programmes and of institutional policies and contribute to decision-making processes at the department, school, faculty or institutional levels.
13.2 Students role on Programme Committees
The programme has a committee on which students from each year are represented. The primary role of student representatives is to provide the University with a balanced view of the perceptions of the student body of the quality and standards of the education and services being provided. At the programme level, they facilitate a dialogue between the members of staff who deliver the programme and the students whose learning is
determined by the programme. Student representatives also attend the School of Nursing and Midwifery Teaching and Learning Committee.
13.3 School Student representative
In addition there is an elected School of Nursing and Midwifery student representative who attends Faculty and University meetings on behalf of the students in the school.
13.4 Student Masterclasses
Student masterclasses are organised by the School Alumni. The underlying ethos of the Master class project is to help students be proactive in their own education and achieve nursing excellence. It promotes enterprise by empowering students to make use of the resources around them in health care to enhance the learning experience as an
undergraduate student at Plymouth University. The Masterclass project aims to augment the undergraduate BSc (Hons) Nursing and BSc (Hons) Midwifery programmes by
promoting Inter-Professional Learning (IPL) with other undergraduate students, and
organise extracurricular and voluntary teaching sessions offered throughout the placement sites covered by Plymouth University.
In the current year, the Masterclass Project has organised:
Mental Health
Dementia
HIV
The Masterclass Project has a bright future full of ideas and hopes to organise more talks in the field of health and social care in the upcoming academic year. Watch this space! We look forward to seeing you at Masterclasses soon! In the meantime if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us at:
[email protected] 13.5 Student Feedback and Evaluation
Student feedback and evaluation, both of individual modules and of the whole programme is an integral and important part of the learning and teaching process. You will be invited to evaluate the delivery and content of each module, utilising a standard Module
Evaluation form which will be distributed by module teachers. In addition, some form of qualitative evaluation will normally be undertaken.
In your portfolio you will be given practice feedback sheets. It is important that you complete these for every placement in order for us to ensure you are getting the best learning opportunities and support available. These should be handed in at Programme Administration at the end of each placement.
You will also be invited to provide feedback on the wider aspects of the University environment, introduction to the programme, the learning environment, quality of the programme and services/ facilities available to you. This information will be gained via the annual Student Perception Questionnaire (SPQ) – more details can be found at the
following web address:
Website: http://home.plymouth.ac.uk/plymouth/main.htm 13.5.1 Student Perception Questionnaire (SPQ)
What is it for? The purpose is:
to give YOU the chance to tell US what you feel about YOUR experience of teaching
and learning at Plymouth University
to allow US to identify those issues that are perceived by YOU as affecting YOUR
education, either positively or negatively
to provide US with a University-wide perspective and to enable US to prioritise our
ACTION to improve the quality of YOUR educational experience at Plymouth University 13.5.2 National Student Survey (NSS)
The NSS is a survey of mostly final year undergraduates in England, Northern Ireland, Wales and the majority of institutions in Scotland. Further Education colleges with directly funded higher education students (i.e. students in their final year of a course leading to undergraduate qualifications or credits) in England and Wales will also participate. The survey is part of the revised system of quality assurance for higher education, which
replaces subject review by the QAA, and is designed to run alongside the QAA institutional audit to generate more detailed public information about teaching quality. The NSS is
commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Ipsos
MORI, an independent research company, administers the survey.
The NSS results are made available to participating institutions on the NSS Results
Website. From September 2012, the results will be publicly available in the following ways:
1. Published 'in context' on the web-sites of universities and colleges via a KIS 'widget'. This is a small graphic with three pieces of information from the KIS, specifically about the course the user is viewing.
2. Published on a new official web-site that enables users to search and compare both KIS and Unistats data (the Unistats site will close from September 2012, when this new official web-site will be launched).
3. On the redeveloped UCAS course search tool (Course Finder), which will incorporate the KIS data so users can view the data at the same time as viewing the courses they are interested in applying to.