The last two weeks have been relatively busy for me, both in terms of my Officer activities and personal studies....
Last Tuesday I attended an NUS Course Rep training event with two of our School Reps and VP Education; it was a really useful event, and something that in the future I'd hope more Reps would be attending - hopefully we can take experiences from that to help our own in-house Rep Training as well...
Wednesday's Exec Committee saw a great proposal from Emily Gough for a week of being out and about gathering student opinion on what we've been up to recently, and finding out essentially what students want now; similar to what I wanted to do at the beginning of the year but due to other initiatives looking at communications with students was scaled down a little...
On the Friday we had a meeting to discuss how this would work and the frameworks look really fun...
Also, I met Lord Young with regard to general student experience; the meeting was productive, and a report will be submitted from him to the Vice Chancellor about what we talked about; namely issues such as accommodation, contact time with academics and student involvement with many aspects of the Uni.
This Monday I attended Board of Trustees, which again had some interesting proposals, including amended sports and societies constitutions... I'll be giving a report back to Student Council on Thursday.
Yesterday (Tuesday) I attended a Communication Strategy Working Group meeting; we discussed how best to find out what our stakeholders need to know about the SU and how they could best find out that information, amongst other things.
The Comms Strat group is progressing at a slow, yet steadily productive pace; communications - particularly with regard to students - is something that we can't deal with quickly; we need to ensure that every detail and possibility is considered into the strategy, which hopefully will provide a good set of guidelines to improve communication in the future.
