Call For St Mellitus Student Representatives for Common Awards programmes 2024/25 - Do you have the skills and passion to represent your fellow students?
The St Mellitus/Common Awards Management Committee is a committee with responsibility for and oversight of student experience and the quality and standards of programme delivery. The membership of the Board includes students from St Mellitus across the centres who represent the whole of the Common Awards student body. Student representatives are able to contribute to the College’s decision-making, policy development and the ongoing monitoring and development of programmes at a local level. Some of these contributions may then be forwarded to the Common Awards Management Board which has student representation at a national level.
For the first time St Mellitus College is facilitating an election for you to elect student representatives to represent you at Management Committee.
Your voice is important
~ Are you interested in being one of the local student representatives?
~ Would you like to have a say in the ongoing monitoring and development of the Common Awards programmes on a local level?
~ Would you like to represent your fellow students and contribute to St Mellitus College’s decision-making and policy development?
If so, please consider standing for election!
The Role of Student Representatives
Student representatives are elected for one year. The role of the student representatives is:
· to be present at the relevant meeting(s) of the St Mellitus/Common Awards Management Committee that they have agreed to attend;
· to gather and collate feedback from other students, and submit items of student feedback to the Chair of the Management Committee;
· to provide an oral update at the meeting on any feedback they have received from other students;
· to report back to students on matters raised and discussed at the St Mellitus/Common Awards Management Committee.
We are looking for the following student representative positions to be filled in 2024/25:
London Monday
· Ordinand MA
· Independent MA
· Ordinand UG (2 representatives are needed)
· Independent UG (including for Youth Ministry student representation)
London Tuesday
· Ordinand
· Independent
· LLM
South West
· Ordinand
· Independent
Chelmsford
· Independent and ordinand
· LLM
East Midlands
· Ordinand
· Independent
· MA (for both ordinands and independents)
Students can nominate themselves for election as a student rep via the email sent by Registry from 8th April 2024. Additional criteria for candidates is that they must still be be on an accredited programme in 2024/25. Candidates wanting to stand for election must self-nominate by 3rd May 2024 (information to be shared at the start of Term 3) but seek the support of two other students who will still be completing a Durham-accredited programme in 2024/25. The election will take place anonymously on Moodle in mid-May and elected student representatives will be confirmed by mid-June 2024. Elected student representatives would officially begin their role in September 2024 and attend the first meeting of Management Committee scheduled for September/October 2024.
For more information about student representation please visit Student Feedback and Participation pages on Moodle:
https://stmellitus.commonawards.org/mod/page/view.php?id=30326&forceview=1
https://stmellitus.commonawards.org/mod/page/view.php?id=30327&forceview=1
Your current reps are listed here so do have a chat with them about what it means to be a student rep: Handbook 2023/24 College Life : Student Representatives (commonawards.org)
If you have any questions in the meantime please contact the Registry Team (AcademicAdmin@stmellitus.ac.uk).