Student Experience Forum

The Student Experience Forum is a sub-committee of the UMB Education & Student Experience Committee co-chaired by the Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience) and the President of the Imperial College Union. It makes recommendations to the Education & Student Experience Committee to implement business to support the student experience, working closely with the Research & Enterprise Committee and Operations & Infrastructure Committee as required. The Forum provides the opportunity for the students’ union to raise issues of particular concern or importance as they relate to the student experience.  

Terms of Reference

• Enable discussion between staff and students on matters relating to the provision of an excellent student experience, including upcoming and ongoing challenges and sharing of new initiatives and best practice.
• To co-create strategies for enhancing and innovating our provision to provide an excellent student experience.
• To receive reports and consider items referred from the Imperial Experience Board.
• To provide the opportunity for students and staff to raise issues of particular concern or importance as they relate to the student experience.
• To make recommendations and provide reports to the Education and Student Experience Committee, including acting as forum for consultation on business delegated from the Committee.
• To monitor agreed actions resulting from student surveys relating to organisation and
  management, student voice and learning resources. 
• To consider the impact of decisions on all students, and to ensure an inclusive learning community, embedding equality and diversity into the student experience.

Membership

• Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience), Co-Chair 
• President, Imperial College Union, Co-Chair 
• Deputy President (Welfare), Imperial College Union
• Deputy President (Education), Imperial College Union 
• Deputy President (Activities), Imperial College Union 
• Vice-Deans (Education) 
• Faculty Heads of Education and Student Experience (or nominee) 
• Assistant Provost (Learning and Teaching) 
• Assistant Provost (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) 
• Associate Provost (Academic Planning) 
• Director of the Education Office and Head of Strategic Projects 
• Head of Education and Student Experience Strategy Projects, Education Office 
• Education Projects Manager, Education Office
• Education Projects Coordinator, Education Office 
• Academic Registrar 
• Faculty Senior Tutors 
• Managing Director, Imperial College Union 
• Director of Academic Services 
• Director of Campus Services 
• Director of Student Services 
• Head of International Student Support 
• Director of the Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication 
• Director of StudentShapers 
• Director of Library Services 
• Early Career Researcher Insitute representative 
• Chairs of the sub-committees 
• Director of Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions 
• Education Evaluation Manager, Strategic Planning 
• Director of Digital Education Innovation and Services 
• Education Manager (Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction) 
• Director of Customer Success (Information and Communication Technologies) 
• Advice Manager, Imperial College Union 
• Representation Manager, Imperial College Union  

Other colleagues may also attend meetings for specific agenda items.

Meetings and paper guidance 

Paper guidance 

Please ensure that your paper has been approved by a member of the Forum before submission and that is no longer than 3-4 pages in length. Any additional material should be added as an appendix and all papers should include the Student Experience Forum coversheet at the start. 

We encourage all papers to meet the following accessibility guidelines: 

• Consistent heading styles should be used to indicate grouping and add hierarchy to your content. 
• All figures, tables, charts etc (including in appendices) are required to be clearly and consistently labelled. 
• All link text must be clear, descriptive, and understandable without contextual content (do not use click here or include the URL).

Please note, if required, it is the item lead's responsibility to ensure a fully accessible version of the paper submitted to Student Experience Forum is available on request. 

To ensure accessibility, papers can be checked against the College's guidance on publishing accessible documents. Additionally, the latest version of Office (365) has an accessibility checker that highlights issues and solutions. To access, click on the Review tab within the document and then click Check Accessibility.