Student Representation in Scottish Further Education Colleges: An Aspect Report for SFC by HMIE: page 10

Student Representation in Scottish Further Education Colleges: An Aspect Report for SFC by HMIE

SFC should continue to work with colleges and others to help:

colleges to work with students’ associations so that students in all sectors of the student body are well informed on student representation issues;
colleges to ensure that student representatives on college committees receive sufficient and timely training to enable them to participate fully; and
boards of management to ensure that sufficient training and support is available to student members to enable them to participate fully and effectively.

Colleges should:

ensure that they have consistent guidance for staff on procedures for electing student representatives to programme committees;
with their students’ associations, develop systems of student representation that maximise learner participation for all modes of attendance, including outreach and remote learners;
work with their students’ associations to improve continuity from year to year in the operation of students’ associations;
review their college committee memberships so that student representation is included where it would be effective;
consider how students could make a more effective and direct contribution to self-evaluation including the evaluation of learning and teaching; and
work with their students’ associations to consider how they might use existing ICT resources to improve communications between students and their representatives, especially for part-time and outreach students.