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Attention to student opinion

The Joint Committee on Student Participation in the University met for the first time last Wednesday.

The chairman of the committee, the Pro-Chancellor, Mr R. S. V. Simpson, said that discussion of the Students' Association submissions occupied most of the committee's time.

The Students' Association recommendations will be published in Salient next week.

"The committee settled the procedures to be followed in hearing submissions on Student Participation in the University, and emphasised that the widest possible publicity be given to the work of the committee," said Mr Simpson.

"In order to facilitate this, the committee asks that submissions be made to it by Monday, 1st July."

The committee confirmed the terms of reference of the Committee as follow:

(1) To enquire into and report on the existing arrangements for the communication of student opinion to the authorities of the university;

(2) Where is is found desirable, to make recommendations for the improvement of these channels of communication;

(3) More particularly, to enquire into the desirability and possibility of increasing student representation on various university committees with the object of improving the means whereby student opinion is brought more closely to the attention of the authorities of the university.

It was decided that the committee would meet again on Tuesday, 9th July 1968 to hear submissions made to it.