Emina's half-term update
Category
Officer Trustees
Date
21 jan 2025
Author
Deputy President (Education)
Read Time
2 min

Keeping up with my promise to improve communication and transparency about what’s going on at union, here’s my halfway update on the road so far!
Assessment & feedback review
I’ve been involved in the assessment and feedback review happening across the university:
- This meant the appointment of permanent staff in each faculty to work with students on identifying and fixing assessment pain points.
- I’ve been working with your student reps to define what ‘good feedback’ actually looks like, which will help shape staff guidelines in the future.
Mitigating Circumstances (MC) - why are they a problem?
- The process and outcome timelines are often unclear, with different departments having different approaches to submitting an MC.
I’m looking into a central digital submission platform for Mitigating Circumstances that would integrate smoothly with platforms already in place. This is on top of my work on reviewing MC policy to ensure it reflects our students' needs.
As part of this review, I'm collating student experiences of using Mitigating Circumstances to present back to the university. Let us know how you found the experience to help us improve the process going forward!
Anonymously submit your MC feedback here.
Communication & Student Reps
Reps are probably sick of hearing from me!
- I’ve set up Teams channels for reps and am meeting individually with faculty reps to see how we can support them.
- Nico and I have also been running biweekly in-person drop-ins, which have been a great way to meet and hear from many of you.
- In the process of improving staff-student feedback loop.
What’s next?
The road ahead is long—while same-year resits for Postgrad Taught students might not be on the cards this year, we’re laying the groundwork to push for it in the future.
I’m also planning an alumni networking event for the Summer term and want to hear from you—which fields or industries would you like to connect with alumni from? Drop me a message at dpe@ic.ac.uk
Until next time :)
Emina, Deputy President (Education)