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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. [Volume 39, Number 19, 1976.]

Student Representation

Student Representation

Because of the traditional problem of sustaining student mobilised action, much of the spade work, at times disheartening, has been left to the student reps of different faculties. Due to sheer dogged persistence some minor concessions and improvements have been won such as better co-ordination of assignment dates. One example has been the development of the "double chance" form of assessment in the Romance Language Department as a result of consultation and collaboration between student representatives and sympathetic staff in 1973. Under this system, a student, given a mark out of 100 for her terms's work would be given "second chance" to sit a finals exam. Again, the registry ruled that all students would have to sit the exam thus making it a "double" rather than "second chance" assessment system.

A related feature is that because of increased workload pressure partly due to ITA student reps not only find it more difficult to organise students but to represent them. Because of apathy at SRC's in electing them and the demands on their time divided between study and committee duties etc, the student reps credibility as representing students can be questioned by faculties. Furthermore, student reps are present on committees not of right but on concession by staff who always naturally have a majority.