As staff continually assess students, and their results make considerable differences to students' lives, so students should be able to evaluate staff, and have this evaluation taken into account in questions of appointment etc. NZUSA has assembled considerable data showing how unreliable exams and assessment are (see the article on pages 16-18 of Handbook), and many of these criticisms would hold off any methods students might use to evaluate their teachers. However:

1.	Lecturers do use arbitrary and biased assessment techniques — by turning these back on them they will perhaps realise the failings of their system.
2.	Lecturers, as noted in the accompanying article, are not considered in their role as teachers at all. For example, Vics. Econ. 201 paper pass rates vacillated considerably over a period of years, due almost entirely to the competence or otherwise of the teachers. A strong reaction in 1973 lead to some changes including a questionnaire (which, although organised by students is not available for publication) and this could he extended.
3.	Again as noted in the other article, through the mysterious workings of 'academic freedom' tenets, lecturers have a blank cheque to do pretty well anything with their classes. Students too often just accept this, or individually drop out. The real answer lies in fighting back.
4.	University is supposed to be developing students critical faculties. Of what use are these if we do not use them to analyse our own situations? From these arguments a group of us are interested in running course and lecturer evaluations on as many courses as possible within the University. We welcome ideas, criticisms, etc. of specific instances of wrong doing (see the article on Pols 213 elsewhere in this issue) but beyond this we print here a draft questionnaire. Its simple easy to fill in, and will be of immense value both to teachers and students working out where courses are going wrong and what can be done about them. Please fill a copy in for each of your courses finishing at mid-year — we'll publish the results later and also improve the questionnaire for courses finishing at the end of the year in light of any problems this first survey may reveal. Please drop your completed forms in to the Students Association Office (ground floor, Union Building) or the Salient office, (first floor, UUB).