Campaigns

Your Union runs campaigns to fight for your rights and campaigns on local, national and international issues that you care about. It both runs its own campaigns and facilitates the campaigns that students want to run.

Thanks to the Union's campaigns we got you better feedback. We worked with the University to organize focus groups of students who told us what their problems were with feedback, and how they thought it ought to be improved. From these discussions we helped draft a new policy on feedback and lobbied University Senate to approve it. It passed by a huge majority and will be implemented from September 2010. The policy contains several major wins for students: feedback on coursework must be given within 15 days; there must be an opportunity for formative feedback in every module before your final assessment; feedback must be individual and personal to your own work; and Schools must allow you to see your exam script should you request to do so.

The policy is available here - if you're not getting what you should be, contact the Academic Affairs Officer now at academic@umsu.manchester.ac.uk.

So, whatever issues you are having, or you care about, come to the Union and Get Involved!

CAMPAIGNS OFFICER
Name: Amanda Walters
Email: campaigns@umsu.manchester.ac.uk
Phone: 07787422385
Base: General Office, ground floor of the UMSU Biko Building