Education Zone (8th May 2017)

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Name of Committee	Education Zone
Date and time	8th May 2017, 15:00
Place
Present Members (voting)	Vice President Education Elliot Grater Education Zone Open Place Madeleine Ell Humanities Faculty Officer Samuel Dedman Education Zone Open Place Matt Cowley Education Zone Open Place Emily Watt Kate Weston
Absent with Apologies	Union President Alex Hovden Vice President Democracy and Creative Industries Cameron Meldrum Medicine Faculty Officer Hoda Amar Natural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Officer Tess Voysey Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences Faculty Officer Molly Maguire
Absent without Apologies	Postgraduate (Research) Students Officer Giles Howard Education Zone Open Place Alison Irwin Education Zone Student Group Representative Andrew Bamford Physical Sciences & Engineering Faculty Officer Anthony Kenny Business, Law and Art Faculty Officer Hale Bener Education Zone Open Place Alice Arnold Health Sciences Faculty Officer Rebecca Thomsen Education Zone Open Place Bonnie Liu Postgraduate (Taught) Students Officer Jaya Surya Dhayalan
Non-members	George Middleton-Baker

Actions and Decisions

Type	Description	Who
Action	All committee members to think of ideas for funding the History journal.

Inductions

Open Zone Places

The election for open place will be done via email due to the low attendance of the meeting.

Officer Reports

3.1 Humanities Faculty Officer:

Sam Deadman – The Module choice ballots were a fiasco but the rep team in humanities did an excellent job in the circumstances and Sam is proud of them.

3.2

Module Choices
Elliot has now met with senior figures at the University to hear what went wrong. Apparently the brief given to iSolutions was inadequate and did not specify the provisions necessary for competitive courses. A review group will be formed soon and Elliot will lobby for substantial change. At this stage nothing is off the table and Elliot encouraged all members of the committee to contribute their ideas on how to improve the system.

The university will make a statement soon.

History Undergraduate Journal Funding

History are trying to secure some funding for the History Undergraduate Journal. Sam Deadman said that the academic reps have put in a lot of hard work to the journal and it would be good to be able to produce a print version of the journal.
Elliot asked the members of the committee to think of ways to help with funding for the journal.
ACTION – All committee members to think of ideas for funding the History journal.

Action

All committee members to think of ideas for funding the History journal.

You Make Change/Action Plans

Elliot explained the transition of the policy into action plans which will make student officers more accountable for their plans as the stages will be published on the Union’s website.

AOB

The library is being refurbished over the summer.
Handover documents are currently being drawn for next year’s academic reps.
Summer elections will open shortly.
Matt is confident that Joint Honours reps are now being invited to the correct SSLC meetings.

Key: P (Papers Provided), PF (Papers to Follow)