Student & Engagement
Overview
“The provider actively engages students, individually and collectively, in the quality of their educational experience.” (QAA & UKSCQA, 2018)
The new Quality Code includes the Core Practice above that institutions
Students can also be engaged in a whole series of wider activities in their time in higher education. GuildHE’s report on students as active citizens could provide a helpful overview.
GuildHE Students’ Union Network
Student engagement is one of the key features of GuildHE members and is prioritised in our strategic plan.
GuildHE runs a network for students’ union officers and staff. It usually meets three or four times a year, including a joint meeting in September with the quality managers network.
The next meeting will be at the GuildHE Annual Conference in Abertay, Nov 20/21.
For more information contact: Jack Fleming
Useful Resources
QAA Quality Code: B5 Student Engagement
The Student Engagement Partnership (TSEP)
TSEP Benchmarking Tool for Student Academic Representation
RAISE (Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement) Network
Links to our work
GuildHE Reports
Students’ Union HE Policy Handbook (Sept 2018)
Active Citizenship – the Role of Higher Education (Nov 2016)
Making Student Engagement a Reality: Turning Theory into Practice (Nov 2015)
GuildHE Blogs
What’s next for Student Volunteering? Putting Social Action at the Heart of University Strategy (Prof. Joy Carter and Francis Wight, Mar 2018)
Engaging students a partners: two steps forward, one step back (Xenia Levantis & Alex Bols, Nov 2017)
Enhancing Student Representation systems (Alex Bols, Nov 2015)
Who to contact
Alex Bols
Policy Manager
alex.bols@guildhe.ac.uk