Reppery

It’s sort of half way through my tenure as Education Rep and I thought it would be a good time to go through my manifesto pledges, looking to see what I’ve done, what’s happened, and what’s left to do by the time I finish in the summer. Granted, I can’t take credit for everything, but nevertheless it’s good to reflect.

More “social spaces”

Working at the Careers Advisory Service means that I knew about this a little before everybody else, but now that the Carrington Building is open, there’s a lovely social space inside just to the left of the reception building, equipped with PCs and wireless access. It’s open whenever the building is and can be used by anybody, just like the wireless zone in HumSS. Now that the library makeover has finished, there’s another social space there with the new Cafe Libro which seems to be well used.

Improvements to the library

As above, the library has now completely reopened with some stunning new features on the ground floor. IT help is now on the first floor along with S@iL and a new scanner station. Cafe Libro (run by central catering, the same people who run Cedars) serves fairtrade food and drinks all day long and is a great place to meet.

Improvements to the Personal Tutor system

This is something that still needs to be worked on. I am quite lucky to have a good personal tutor who always sets up meetings and records everything. However, I do realise that not all personal tutors are the same. I’ll be working on this in the coming months.

Improved teaching of career management skills

CMS is run by the Careers Advisory Service so I was in a position to feed back to the careers advisers about the relevance of the course and what could be improved after taking it myself. The careers advisers assured me that the course had changed significantly since last year, and they also took my views along with those of others taking the course this year in order to improve CMS for upcoming students.

Listening to you

This isn’t so much of a target as something continuous. I’m proud of my listening record but to date not many people have approached me about stuff to do. I’m also in contact with StARs across the Faculty of Science, and some of them are feeding back great things to me, but again, lots of StARs aren’t responding, so if you know your StAR isn’t responding then why not give them a little push?

As always, everybody’s always welcome to contact me for anything!