You told us that the sort of barriers you were facing were: – Communication/support issues (3) – Course structure (6) – Workload (2) – Own lack of academic skills (1), Stress management (1), Time management (2), Lack of fun activities (1), Use of Brightspace (1), Lack of money (1) Your VP Welfare is going to… Read more »
Department of Design & Engineering
We would like more cultural events, solving language issues, more events in halls and nights out to help better integrate international and home students. What can SUBU do to make this happen?
SUBU will be expanding the One World Festival to consist of a week of events and activities and working with Reslife on these plans. Your VP Welfare will also be meeting with the university to look at how we can improve the language learning opportunities at BU.
We feel nervous & unprepared going into our degree industry. What can SUBU do to help?
Your VP Welfare will be meeting with Careers and Employability to discuss how we can work collaboratively on more projects and will pass on this feedback.
What can SUBU do about the barriers for students taking part in physical extra-curricular activities?
We asked during Speak Week what barriers you might have for taking part in physical extra-curricular activities. Lack of time (4) – Working with the University and SportBU to make Wednesday Afternoon’s lecture-free so that students can take part in extra-curricular activities. Expensive activities (3) – We are currently investigating the prices of our Activities, and… Read more »
Is it possible to have a box within brightspace for students to link in with SUBU. In addition is it possible for reps to have a one stop shop within brightspace for information and SimOn?
Whilst there isn’t currently a designated area for Student Reps on Brightspace, there is a one-stop-shop in the form of a useful toolkit on the SUBU website– you can find it here: www.subu.org.uk/reptoolkit
Can we please have a SimOn app so that we are able to add feedback on the go and have a quick way to support our students?
Our current service provider doesn’t offer an app as part of their package but it’s a specification that we could investigate. One possibility could be for us to add SimOn into a pre-existing app as a widget. There isn’t currently a SUBU app but if there were to be we could include it in that,… Read more »
Would it possible to tick more than 1 option on SimOn as more often than not one issue applies to several different areas? This would make it easier to use and more time effective.
Because the feedback in SimOn is assigned to one topic and subtopic, it can be distributed to the relevant areas in the Uni. If the feedback was able to be assigned to more than one then then would be an increased risk of feedback being duplicated. SimOn is designed in a way to encourage Reps… Read more »
Could you remove the student card system to reduce the prices seen in the shop as since jan of 2017? The prices have been a little high and students would like to see if this would help
Unfortunately, we can put the ‘genie back in the bottle’ on this one I’m afraid. A majority of transactions use cards in the shop, and these come with a charge from the card issuers. We have absorbed this into prices which has caused some of the confectionery prices to rise (as the profit margins are… Read more »
Poor quality of food wraps in student shops, found to be soggy and very flavourless
We are sorry to hear that some people did not enjoy our wraps. We do eat the same food and have found them to be good. The three bean wrap is amazing.
The prices in the student union shop are quite expensive and there aren’t many vegetarian/vegan choices
The student shop has a very competitive meal deal (2.49 and 3.29). This is pretty much as good as you will find anywhere. Our fizzy drinks are price checked against Tesco local so we know they are well priced. Our water is nearly half the price it is in the fusion building. You may be… Read more »