Dear students,

Thanks to the great campaigning of all three parties this year more people casted their vote in the Student Council elections. Cheers to that!

Below you may find the percentage numbers how many people voted at what faculty. The final results will be published tomorrow at the 11th of May. Stay posted!

Opkomst (10-5-2010 08:54:00)

Districten

Totaal

VOTE HERE :                    http://stem.uva.nl/

Dear students,

From Monday on the Student Council elections will be held. Between the 3rd and 7th of May you will be able to cast two votes. One vote will go to your candidate of choice for the Faculty Student Council. The Faculty Council has influence on your very study environment at the faculty. Your second vote goes to your candidate of choice for the Central Student Council. This council deals with more university wide issues.

On the 11th of May the results of the elections will be published at the Maagdenhuis.

For more info, check out:

http://verkiezingen.studentenraad.nl/home/

It only takes a few seconds to vote and only with your vote we have a legitimate mandate to make sure that your student rights are fought for at our faculty!

Your

FSR FEB

VOTE HERE :                    http://stem.uva.nl/

Dear students,

We hope you made it safe and sound through the exam period and that you are ready to tackle the new block! The Student Council is already working at its next big topic. We received the draft for the upcoming year’s Onderwijs en Examen Regelingen (OER) and will analyse the document thoroughly to make sure that students’ interests are represented in this crucial rule work. Regarding this we will also meet up with the Dean within the next few weeks and keep you up to date whatever is happening.

Yours,

Student Council FEB

Dear Students,

Last Monday we met with the new interim dean of our faculty Eric Fisher and presented him with the evaluation of our research regarding how to increase the percentage of students passing their exams. We had quite a controversial talk since from the teacher side the main suggestion is to cut on re-sits. We countered this and finally reached the conclusion that overall more bonus systems and partial grades have to be implemented (especially in hard courses such as Statistics and Mathematics).

In our archive you may find the evaluation of our research under “Other”. This paper will also be handled as part of a new faculty working group that will come up with a complete new course structure to guarantee that students are given the right chances to study successfuly.

Thanks again to all who answered our questionnaire! We will keep you updated about upcoming topics and also keep working on study success!

Your

FSR FEB

Hello everyone!

Under the new section Elections you may find all info regarding the Student Council elections coming up in May. There you may also find a short description of the parties you may vote for.

Dear students,

The FEB Student Council is working right now on ways to increase the study success of students. One option is to integrate more bonus systems or assignments and presentations that form part of your grade. We would like to know if you think that would be a good approach and hear about your suggestions.

Please help us by filling in the following questionnaire:

http://www.feb.uva.nl/study-quality

Best wishes,

Your FEB Student Council

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Beste studenten,

Veel studenten maken gebruik van herkansingstentamens om hun vakken af te ronden. Wij als Facultaire Studentenraad (FSR) zijn nu aan het uitzoeken wat er moet veranderen om te zorgen dat studenten zonder het gebruik van een herkansing hun vakken halen.

Een mogelijkheid is om meer bonuspuntsystemen of opdrachten toe te voegen aan een vak. Wij willen graag weten hoe jij hier over denkt!

Help ons en vul de volgende enquête in:

http://www.feb.uva.nl/study-quality

De FSR

Dear students,

In May the yearly student council elections will be held again. Interested in running for the student council? Or would you like to know what all this is about? Feel free to contact us! Our weekly meetings are also open to the public and take place every Monday between 15:00 and 17:00 hours either in our office E.1.13 or somewhere else in E hall. If you want to join a meeting write a short message and drop by!

See you at the FEB!

FSR FEB 2009 / 2010

Dear students,

The FEB Student Council hopes that you had a great start in your new year 2010 and enjoyed your vacations! We want to take this chance and tell you a little about what we worked on during the last year and what our new-years resolutions are:

What we achieved

Last year, we worked on several topics that affect you directly:

1.) Sorbon

Overpriced food at Sorbon’s restaurants? In the future no more of that! Together with faculty and university officials we applied some pressure before Sorbon’s contract would be extended. All prices will be lowered, some of them by up to 40 % from the 1^st of January 2010 on!

2.) Library / Study Places

Cutting down opening hours of the library? The Student Council prevented that. Even more, we achieved that the library will be open until 20:00 instead of 18:00 from Monday till Thursday.

3.) Course Evaluation

What happens to all these filled in questionnaires after every exam? The Student Council made sure that the results will be published on Blackboard in the future. We guarantee transparency!

What we will go for

The faculty is facing a lot of changes. The whole system of 7 weeks lectures, 1 week study and then exams will be reorganized. We already made sure that with the new system the study week will be kept. Moreover, we guarantee you that any changes made to the system will be in the interest of the students. Do you want to give input into this discussion? Do not hesitate to contact us!

Apart from that, we need to achieve true internationalisation. This takes two shapes:

1. We want the faculty to increase its efforts offering the right information for students that consider going abroad. They have to be guided closely and assisted accordingly.

2. We want to guarantee that those international students joining our faculty have the opportunity to contribute something to our community. Together with the student associations we will realize projects where Dutch and international students jointly work together.

Now you have seen what our plans are for 2010. We would be glad to hear your opinion on these topics and also suggestions for further issues that have to be addressed at our faculty. Together we can bring real changes to our faculty!

Yours,

The FEB Student Council 2009/2010

It has been quite a while but now the new website of the FEB-Student Council is online! We changed our system with a new host and now implemented a design that should make the navigation through our website clearer and simpler. On our new homepage we will constantly keep you informed about any topics we are working on. At the same time we hope that also you will help us and give input about things that have to be changed at our faculty.

Your FEB-Student Council