Student feedback
As part of Queen Mary's quality assurance and enhancement processes, feedback is sought from students by a variety of means. Internal mechanisms include:
- informal staff/student discussions
- focus groups
- Student-Staff Liaison Committees (SSLCs)
- Student Module Evaluation
Nationally Queen Mary University of London participates in surveys including the UK Engagement Survey, the National Student Survey, the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, and the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey.
Student-Staff Liaison Committees (SSLCs)
The purpose of Student-Staff Liaison Committees is to ensure that there is an effective channel for formal communication between students and staff in each school or institute, through which students can reflect and give feedback on their programme of study as an integral part of Queen Mary's systems and procedures for assuring academic standards and enhancing the student experience. The minutes of individual school and institute meetings are uploaded to the SSLC webpage.
Guidance and Templates
Guidance documents and templates are listed below:
- SSLC Guidnace - Education Manual 2021/22 [PDF 246KB]
- SSLC Roles and Responsibilities Summary [PDF 440KB]
- SSLC Agenda Template 2021-22 (UG and PGT) [DOC 40KB]
- SSLC Minutes Template 2021-22 (UG and PGT) [DOC 41KB]
- SSLC Annual Report Template 2021-22 (UG and PGT) [DOC 41KB]
- QMSU course representative pages
During the current COVID-19 situation, schools and institutes are being asked to continue to hold SSLC meetings but to use IT applications to hold these remotely. Queen Mary and Queen Mary Students' Union have issued additional guidance to support remote meetings:
A number of schools have resources for their SSLCs on their intranet and QMplus pages.
SSLC minutes are submitted to the Academic Secretariat and Students' Union so that their overall functioning can be monitored, examples of good practice identified and areas of concern identified.
