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 1st 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