Purpose of the role:
As a Course Representative, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the student experience. Each tutor group or year group has a dedicated rep who acts as the bridge between students and faculty. Your main goal? Ensure that every student's voice is heard and that their concerns and suggestions are addressed.
What You'll Gain
Being a Course Rep offers a unique opportunity to develop valuable skills and experiences that will benefit you both personally and professionally. You'll gain:
- Leadership and Communication Skills: Learn how to effectively represent your peers and communicate their needs to faculty.
- Problem-Solving Abilities: Develop strategies to address and resolve student issues.
- Networking Opportunities: Build connections with faculty members and other student leaders.
- Confidence and Public Speaking: Gain experience presenting feedback in formal settings.
- Additional Opportunities: Participate in course approval processes, ensuring new courses meet student needs and standards, and sit on Appeals Panels, playing a key role in important academic decisions.
Responsibilities of the role of Course Rep:
As a Course Rep, you'll have a range of important responsibilities, including:
- Attending Student Staff Liaison Committees: You'll represent your peers at these meetings, presenting feedback to faculty staff and advocating for changes that will improve the student experience.
- Signposting Students to Support Providers: Be the go-to person for your peers, guiding them to the appropriate support services when they need help.
- Listening to Feedback: Actively seek out and listen to the feedback and concerns of your fellow students, ensuring their voices are heard and their needs are met.
Why Stand for Course Rep?
- Make a Real Impact: Your efforts will directly influence the quality of education and student life for your peers.
- Enhance Your CV: Stand out to future employers with demonstrated leadership and advocacy experience.
- Personal Growth: Gain confidence, develop new skills, and grow as an individual.
- Unique Opportunities: Engage in the course approval process and sit on Appeals Panels, contributing to significant academic and administrative decisions.
Purpose of the role:
As a Faculty Representative, you'll be the voice of students within your faculty, ensuring their concerns, suggestions, and ideas are heard at the highest levels. Each campus has at least one rep per faculty, making your role pivotal in bridging the gap between students and faculty staff across different locations. Your main objective? Enhance the academic experience for all students within your faculty.
What You'll Gain
Being a Faculty Rep offers a wealth of opportunities for personal and professional development. You'll gain:
- Advanced Leadership Skills: Hone your ability to lead and represent a diverse group of students.
- Strategic Thinking: Develop insights into faculty-wide policies and contribute to long-term planning.
- Extensive Networking: Connect with senior faculty members, university administrators, and student leaders.
- Public Speaking and Advocacy: Build confidence as you present feedback and proposals in formal settings.
- Additional Opportunities: Participate in high-level decision-making processes and play a critical role in the academic governance of your faculty.
Responsibilities of the role of Faculty Rep:
As a Faculty Rep, you'll take on a variety of important responsibilities, including:
- Being Part Of The Executive Committee: Work with other Faculty Reps and Officers, run academic campaigns, and attend Student Summit.
- Attending Faculty Partnership Meetings: Represent your peers at these meetings, voicing student feedback and advocating for improvements.
- Engaging with Student Support Services: Guide students to appropriate support resources and services.
- Gathering and Presenting Feedback: Proactively seek feedback from students across your faculty and present it to faculty staff.
- Attending and Leading Faculty Forums with Students: Facilitate discussions among students within your faculty, ensuring their voices are heard and their concerns addressed.
Why Stand for Faculty Rep?
- Drive Positive Change: Influence policies and initiatives that directly affect students within your faculty.
- Boost Your CV: Demonstrate your leadership, advocacy, and strategic thinking skills to future employers.
- Grow Personally and Professionally: Gain invaluable experience and develop a broad skill set that will benefit you in any career.
- Engage in High-Level Decision Making: Be part of important faculty meetings, contributing to significant academic decisions.
What You'll Gain
Being an NUS Rep offers a range of unique benefits and experiences. You'll gain:
- National Leadership Experience: Develop leadership skills by representing your peers on a national level.
- Insight into National Policy: Learn how national policies affecting students are formed and influenced.
- Extensive Networking: Connect with student leaders from other universities, NUS officers, and policymakers.
- Public Speaking and Advocacy: Build confidence as you present ARU students' views and concerns at national conferences and meetings.
- Additional Opportunities: Engage in high-level discussions and decision-making processes that impact students across the UK.
Responsibilities of the role of NUS Rep:
As an NUS Rep, your key responsibilities include:
- Attending NUS Conferences and Events: Represent ARU at national NUS conferences, forums, and events, bringing the perspectives and concerns of ARU students to the forefront.
- Engaging with ARU Students: Regularly seek feedback and input from your peers at ARU to ensure you accurately represent their views.
- Advocating for ARU Students: Present and advocate for the issues, needs, and ideas of ARU students at NUS meetings.
- Networking with Other Reps: Build relationships with other NUS reps and student leaders from across the country to share insights and strategies.
Why Stand for NUS Rep?
- Make a National Impact: Influence policies and initiatives that affect students across the entire UK.
- Boost Your CV: Stand out to future employers with demonstrated national leadership and advocacy experience.
- Personal Growth: Gain invaluable experience, develop a broad skill set, and grow as an individual.
- Represent ARU: Have the responsibility of representing ARU students on the national stage.
Purpose of the role:
As a PGR Representative, you'll be the voice of postgraduate research students within your faculty and across the university. You'll work to ensure that the needs, concerns, and ideas of PGR students are heard and addressed by faculty and university staff. Your primary objective? Improve the academic and research experience for all PGR students at ARU.
What You'll Gain
Being a PGR Rep offers a wealth of opportunities for personal and professional development. You'll gain:
- Advanced Leadership Skills: Develop your ability to represent and advocate for a diverse group of postgraduate researchers.
- Research Policy Insights: Gain an in-depth understanding of the policies and procedures that impact postgraduate research.
- Extensive Networking: Connect with faculty members, university administrators, and fellow PGR students.
- Public Speaking and Advocacy: Build confidence as you present feedback and proposals in formal settings.
- Additional Opportunities: Engage in high-level discussions and decision-making processes that affect PGR students.
Responsibilities of the role of PGR Rep:
As a PGR Rep, you'll take on a variety of important responsibilities, including:
- Attending Faculty Partnership Meetings: Represent PGR students at these meetings, voicing their feedback and advocating for improvements.
- Engaging with Student Support Services: Guide PGR students to appropriate support resources and services.
- Gathering and Presenting Feedback: Proactively seek feedback from PGR students across your faculty and present it to faculty staff.
- Attending and Leading PGR Forums: Facilitate discussions among PGR students, ensuring their voices are heard and their concerns addressed.
Why Stand for PGR Rep?
- Drive Positive Change: Influence policies and initiatives that directly affect PGR students.
- Boost Your CV: Demonstrate your leadership, advocacy, and strategic thinking skills to future employers.
- Grow Personally and Professionally: Gain invaluable experience and develop a broad skill set that will benefit you in any research career.
- Enhance the PGR Experience: Play a critical role in improving the academic and research environment for all PGR students at ARU.
What is Recommend a Friend?
Do you know someone who would make a fantastic rep? You can anonymously recommend them to encourage them to apply by completing the form below. Please include as many details as you can and we’ll contact them with further information about how to stand.
This does not count as a nomination or a vote. We will send the student the recommendation and it is then down to them if they wish to officially stand as a candidate.