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What is the ideas system?

The Ideas System is the easiest way to share your suggestions and vote on ideas from other students. When you submit an idea, the Student Voice Team and an Executive Officer will review it. We only decline ideas if they:

Break the law
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Name or identify individuals (including staff)
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If there’s an issue, we’ll contact you, explain why, and help you adjust the idea. You’ll also be told how to appeal.

Once approved, your idea is published for 10 working days, where students can give it a thumbs up, thumbs down, or comment.

What happens next?

If your idea gets under 50 likes:
Sent to the relevant Council to discuss. If they support it, they’ll start planning or developing policy.
50–99 likes:
Must be discussed by a Council. They may choose to act by creating a plan or policy for Leicester100.
100+ likes:
You can present your idea to Leicester100 (if you have a full policy). If not, a Council will create a policy or action plan with you.

You’ll be invited to any Council meeting where your idea is discussed, and you can be as involved as you like. If the idea becomes a policy proposal, the Council will help you build it—along with a handy guide.

Voting is simple

Just hit thumbs up or thumbs down on any idea. You can also comment and join the discussion.

Important to know

Ideas have 2 weeks to reach 50 positive votes.
Ideas are removed after 6 months.
Questions? Email su-council@le.ac.uk

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Remove the SAQ in finals medical exams

Submitted 9 months ago by Erfan Ramezanzadeh

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As it stands, the requirements of the GMC are for students to pass their university OSCEs (simulated patient examinations) and MLA (for which most universities do AKT, which is a multiple choice paper). Many universities only have these as their final medical examinations, however Leicester continues to use an additional SAQ (Short answer question) paper which is now marked as a separate component to the other exams. Historically this paper would be marked alongside an SBA but with the introduction of the AKT, it is now marked alone. This sharp change meant over 10% of the cohort graduating this year had to resit their SAQ exam and some even having to resit the year because of it. As such, the University of Leicester has failed students who would have otherwise become doctors were they enrolled in any other UK university.

This petition is to remove the SAQ from the medical finals and make them fair for students.

Anish Mistry: 10:03am on 16 Oct 25 I don't study in this field/sector but this sounds like a good idea. No one deserves missing out or resitting a whole year due to a small exam paper which probably isn't that relevant compared to the rest of the assessments in your course.