Undergraduate Staff-Student Liaison Committee [UGSSLC]

Staff-Student Liaison Committee

At an institutional level, the main forum for student participation is the Staff-Student Liaison Committee (Please see the following URL for University regulations governing Staff-Student Liaison Committees: http://www.essex.ac.uk/quality/pages/sslc.htm

How our own Undergraduate Staff-Student Liaison Committee runs

The Department of Language and Linguistics has separate staff-student liaison committees for undergraduates and postgraduates. The function of the Undergraduate Staff-Student Liaison Committee is to provide a forum in which undergraduate students in the Department can, through their elected representatives, voice opinions about the running of their courses, the running of the Department as it affects them, and any other matters which are integral to their lives as members of the Department of Language and Linguistics.

The Undergraduate Staff-Student Liaison Committee normally comprises 11 student members and 5 staff members. The student representatives are normally six 1st years, two 2nd-years, two 3rd-years and one 4th-year; the staff members are the Teaching Quality Officer (who chairs the Committee), the Head of Department, the Undergraduate Linguistics Co-ordinator, the Modern Languages Co-ordinator, and the Undergraduate Administrator. The Committee holds two one-hour lunchtime meetings a year, which are likely to take place in weeks 8 and 23, with a further meeting in the Summer term (e.g. week 31) if appropriate.

Student representatives consult fellow students about matters they wish to have discussed by the Committee, and forward these to the Undergraduate Administrator for inclusion on the agenda for the next meeting. Minutes are taken (which provide a written summary of the discussion) and these are forwarded for consideration at the next Quality Assurance Committee and Departmental Meeting. A copy of the minutes is posted on the departmental website.

At the first meeting each year, the student members will choose one of their members to represent them at Departmental Meetings and the Quality Assurance Committee (whose function is to monitor teaching standards and course contents).

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