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<h2>POSTGRADUATE REPRESENTATION AND RELATED MATTERS</h2>
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Note that this and many other issues
related to postgraduate student activity are discussed in detail in the
School Postgraduate Student Handbook.  It is vital that you read this
document and that you fully understand the various procedures that are in
place and how they are implemented.
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The booklet is revised annually and each revision will be circulated to
all postgraduate students within the School.  
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It is your responsibility to make sure that you read it. If there is anything 
that you do not fully understand you should contact the School Postgraduate 
Student Adviser or the Research Secretary.
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Postgraduates in the School of Mathematical Sciences have representatives on 
various School committees and also on the postgraduate committees of the 
Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering. 
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Within the School, 
there is an elected representative who sits on the School Resources
Committee, which deals with all School resources, including computers.
The representative for the session 2001-2 is Thomas Womack.
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There are also two elected postgraduate
representatives who sit on the School Research
Committee.  For the session 2001-2
these representatives are
Martin Prickett and Colin Bolton.
This Committee deals with many issues not directly relevant to
postgraduate students, but part of its remit which does have direct
bearing includes: 
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<LI> Monitoring and coordinating postgraduate training provision, pastoral
  care and postgraduate student progress

<LI> Developing and maintaining effective quality control mechanisms for
  research student training.
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The duties of the elected representatives are to liaise between the
Committee and postgraduates on matters covered by the Committee.  It is
the representative's responsibility to inform you when each Committee
meets and to ask you in advance of that meeting for issues you would like
him/her to raise. 
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The representative is also responsible for relaying the feedback from the
meeting to the postgraduate student body. 
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Research students will also be represented on  the Science and
        Engineering Academic Board Committee and on the Science and Engineering
        Postgraduate Committee. There will be one postgraduate research student
        representative representing (on both committees) the research students
        in Science and Engineering. It is expected that the Students' Union
        will organize elections to determine this representative.
As above, the representative is also responsible for relaying the feedback from the meeting to the postgraduate student body. 
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We hope that this provision of representation suffices, but we also hope
that postgraduate students do not feel it necessary to wait for such
formal meetings before raising any issues.  It is much better to deal with
matters informally as they arise, perhaps by speaking to your supervisor,
the School Administrator,
the School Postgraduate Student Adviser or the Research
Secretary.  Communication routes for dealing with difficulties are laid
out in the Handbook. 
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The latest version of this document is available online at
<a href="reps.html">
http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/jff/PGHB/reps.html
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