{"id":3954,"date":"2026-11-10T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2026-11-10T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:21:39","slug":"meet-your-student-reps-and-make-your-voice-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/11\/10\/meet-your-student-reps-and-make-your-voice-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet your Student Reps and make your voice heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Students&#8217; Union has appointed this year&#8217;s School Reps, meaning there are over 166 Student Reps to build on your feedback and ideas to enhance studying and your experience.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Student Reps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>How to find your Student Reps and contact them<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>To see who your Student Reps are, follow the steps below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to the KSU <a href=\"https:\/\/ksu.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Students&#8217; Union webpage<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sign in using your student email<\/li>\n<li>Click on <strong>Dashboard<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Your Reps<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can contact your reps via CourseMate by following the steps below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to the KSU <a href=\"https:\/\/ksu.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Students&#8217; Union page<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sign in using your student email<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Dashboard and <\/strong><strong>CourseMate<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To report issues outside academic study, contact your Student Rep or <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/life\/reporting-an-issue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the specific team or department.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Visit a Student Voice session<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you want to chat in person, there are plenty of ways to make your voice heard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Student Voice Drop-Ins:<\/strong> Stop by for a quick chat with your Student Rep and Student Experience Lead if you have questions, ideas, or feedback, with <strong>free snacks and hot drinks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>School-Wide Town Halls: <\/strong>Come together to share feedback on how things are going, with <strong>free snacks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus Groups:<\/strong> Usually smaller groups of students coming together to discuss feedback on a specific topic or subject, with <strong>free snacks and \u00a315 vouchers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/studies\/our-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check your school for upcoming activities.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>How to become a Student Rep<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Want a piece of the action? There&#8217;s always space for more Student Reps through volunteer or paid roles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Course reps<\/strong> are volunteer roles, and students can sign up at any time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>School reps<\/strong> are paid, part-time roles open to students who have experience as a Student Rep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in becoming a Student Rep, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/ksu.co.uk\/student-voice\/student-reps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KSU Rep information<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:hello@ksu.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact the KSU Student Voice team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Pulse Surveys<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Your Student Reps have already been highlighting positives and negatives by helping to run Pulse Surveys. Each week this term, they will be around campus asking for your feedback on different topics, asking a few questions with small freebies as a thank you!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Assessment and Feedback:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>89% of students<\/strong>\u00a0said that they&#8217;d been able to find the Assessment Briefs for their upcoming assessments, and <strong>84% said<\/strong> that the marking criteria used to assess work were clear.<\/li>\n<li>In response to your feedback, we have simplified the Assessment Brief template for 2026-27 to make assessment information easier to find and make use of.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Belonging and Community:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>87.1% of students<\/strong> at the start of term said that they felt part of a student community at Kent.<\/li>\n<li>After the first month of term,\u00a0<strong>78.9% of students <\/strong>felt they had opportunities to meet and get to know other students.<\/li>\n<li>KSU and academic teams have been working hard to create a strong sense of community and belonging, both in the classroom and beyond. <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Look out for events and opportunities<\/a> to spend time with your classmates and lecturers!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who&#8217;s gotten involved in Student Voice this term. Your feedback, ideas, and perspectives help us improve and shape what comes next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Students&#8217; Union has appointed this year&#8217;s School Reps, meaning there are over 166 Student Reps to build on your feedback and ideas to enhance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/11\/10\/meet-your-student-reps-and-make-your-voice-heard\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87073,"featured_media":3970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312383,205698,202865],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-academic-support","category-student-voice"],"sub_title":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}