An integral part of the university's commitment to effective teaching is its acknowledgment that students have a significant contribution to make to the development of educational programs. The institution has a responsibility to ensure that there are effective procedures for seeking regular feedback from students and for involving them in decisions affecting their learning.
7.1.1 Faculties shall establish and maintain procedures for seeking regular feedback from students about educational programs and for involving them, where appropriate, in decisions and discussions affecting them in their studies.
7.1.2 Faculties and academic staff shall recognise the importance of interviews between staff members and students and their responsibility to provide feedback to, and to seek feedback and input from, students.
7.1.3 Faculty boards shall appoint student representatives nominated by the student body to serve on important standing committees whenever appropriate, and to new committees and working parties, especially where the agenda concerns students.
7.1.4 Faculties shall prepare and publish faculty students' guides to consultation.
7.1.5 Departments shall continue to use questionnaires to seek students' comments on subjects taught, in accordance with university policy on student evaluation of teaching.
7.1.6 When course reviews and course development are undertaken, faculties and departments shall seek student comment widely, through questionnaires, interviews, and membership on committees where appropriate.
7.1.7 Faculties shall develop procedures for timely communication to students of information affecting their studies.
7.2 Each faculty shall review student representation on faculty bodies which make decisions affecting students in their studies, including numbers of representatives, method of filling positions, gender balance, terms of office, timeliness of filling positions, filling of casual vacancies and other relevant procedural matters, with a view to developing proposals to implement the above principles for approval by the Academic Board, through the Education Committee.
7.3 Faculties shall conduct regular reviews of procedures to ensure that principles relating to student representation and consultation are being met, with findings to be included in deans' annual reports to the Academic Board through the Education Committee.
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