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Modular Accreditation for Students Involved in Volunteering.
If you are doing any kind of voluntary work whilst you are studying at the University of Reading, you may gain formal accreditation for it. Due to popular demand we are keeping enrolments open until the end of term. There will be no more enrolment sessions but you will be able to get all the information from the handbook available from the HUB in RUSU.
MASIV Briefing
You may have heard something about accreditation in the last few months. We are offering a pioneering scheme providing formal accreditation for students who are volunteering either within the Students' Union/University or in the local community.
Volunteers from any of the following areas will be eligible:
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- Course Representatives, Faculty Representative or members of the Staff Student Liaison Committee of a department or school
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- Volunteers within a Student Media group (Spark, Junction11, RUSU website volunteer) or a Student Development Committee (Nightline, Rags)
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- Committee members of groups such as JCR committees; Sports or Society committees; Student Media groups (Spark, Junction11); Student Development Committees (Nightline, Rags); Student Representative Groups (Women's, LGBT, Black, Students with Disabilities, Postgraduate, Mature, International, Bulmershe); or those who have been involved in organising events or campaigns for Campaigns Forum
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- Chairpersons; Co-ordinators; Presidents; Secretaries or Treasurers of one of the above groups.
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- Students working for a volunteer organisation in the local community
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Other volunteering may be considered for accreditation by arrangement. There are also some other forms of accreditation available to students, contact us for details of these.
Accreditation on this groundbreaking scheme is in the form of non-academic credits added to students' degree or Postgraduate transcripts (those on Foundationcoursesmay receive a certificate signed by the Board of Studies for Accreditation.)
On many degree transcripts, the title of each academic module students undertake is shown, along with the credit given for that module. Non-academic credits given for this scheme do not make up part of the number of credits required for a degree but will be recorded in the same way on the transcripts. Accrediting in this way shows potential employers that the University recognises the valuable voluntary contribution students have made and that it has met the high standards set by Reading University.
In order to gain accreditation, students must complete the requirements for one of five modules. These are:
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Leadership & Organisation
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Student Committee & Representation Groups
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Technical & Media Services
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Welfare Listening & Guidance
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Local Community Volunteering
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For each module, students must complete a set number of hours volunteering, collect a portfolio of their work as a volunteer, reflect on what they have learnt and developed and gather testimonies from those they have helped or worked with. This should not take more than a few hours in total on top of students' usual volunteering commitments.
Students will have the opportunity to submit their portfolios (containing all of the above) for assessment at the end of each term. Modules will be assessed by at least two people including a member of staff in RUSU or the University.
There is no "pass" or "fail" for the modules: Students will either receive confirmation that they will be accredited, or asked to submit further evidence of their involvement for re-assessment at the end of the next term.
Help, support and training will be provided by Academic staff andRUSU officers and staff who have current involvement with volunteers.
Contact Adam Bailey for more info or to book onto an enrolment session Adam.bailey@reading.ac.uk 0118 378 4119
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