Each department has its own Departmental Teaching Committee (OLC). You are always free to approach the Departmental Teaching Committee with questions or complaints relating to teaching. You can also play a role yourself by becoming a member of the OLC. As a student member of the OLC, you can exercise influence on all possible aspects of teaching which apply within your department.  

The Departmental Teaching Committee is comprised half of students and half of lecturers from the department. With regard to the student element, any student who is enrolled with the department can be elected annually for membership of the OLC. Students who are enrolled in a particular department elect the student member of the OLC from their midst; the appointment of the lecturer members of these committees is effected by the Departmental Boards.   

The OLC carries out regular evaluations in order to assess the teaching carried out within its department. The methodology of these evaluations is set out in a faculty evaluation protocol. Each year the OLC assesses a number of courses from each study year, and also carries out a programme evaluation for each study year.  Each evaluation is followed by a written report, on the basis of which the OLC advises the Departmental Teaching Committee on any action to be taken.