Working Groups

Alongside the various University committees, a number of working groups are often set up to examine specific issues and make recommendations to the relevant committees. Working groups tend to include individuals who have specific knowledge in the relevant area, or who have some kind of vested interest.

Representatives from the Union of UEA Students are often involved in these working groups. These representatives are usually full-time Exceutive Committee officers due to their area of responsibility and their experience.

Below are a list of recent and existing Working Groups. Click on the link to read a summary of what the working group does, along with any reports and updates on the working group.

• Review of the Academic Advisor System . Following a report of the academic advisor system carried out in 2001, this working group has slowly but surely been developing proposals to make the current academic advisor system more effective.

• Governance Working Group . Developing proposals for how governance at a department level, a faculty level and at a central-level following the restructuring of UEA in September 2005.

• Embedding Race Equality Working Group . Following recent legislation to ensure all institutions are acting fairly, this group was created to examine UEA's race equality.

• Widening Participation Working Group . Looks how UEA can increase the number of applicants from non-traditional backgrounds.

• Nursery Working Group . This group meets occasionally to discuss various aspects of the UEA nursery facilities, including charges, facilities, the new nursery building, opening hours, etc.

• Student Working Hours Working Group . Created to examine the impact of students working alongside their studies, this group examines the pros and cons of implementing a limit of non-academic hours worked on UEA students.

• Student Evaluation of the University Working Group . Created to look at the various ways students currently evaluate their experience of UEA, and aims to propose ways of tying them all together.

• Progress File Review . The government has recently stated that all higher education students should have progress files to monitor their progress and skills development through University. This working group looks at how to make this happen.