sparqs : Driving student engagement
Welcome to sparqs : To introduce ourselves very briefly, sparqs is a free service which is funded by the Scottish Funding Council to assist and support students, students' associations and institutions to improve the effectiveness and engagement in quality assurance and enhancement in institutions across Scotland. For more information about our service and Governance check out About Us.
Career opportunities : Recruitment for the Associate Trainer team will commence early in 2011. Check back with sparqs closer to that time for application details.
training and support
Course Representative Training
Training and support for Course Reps throughout Scotland.Click for more information
Associate Trainer team recruited for 2010-11
Following an outstanding response to our recruitment drive, we are pleased to announce our team of Associate Trainers for 2010-11.
events
That's Quality! Event
sparqs and QAA Scotland jointly invite Student Officers in HEIs to attend this event on 26 August for introduction to student engagement in quality enhancement. Book now for That's Quality!
Past Events
For information on our past events and to download presentations that were made during them, please go to our past events section.
sharing practice
Peer Practice Library
sparqs are developing a Library to contain examples of Peer Practice. We need your help and ask you to provide us with information about the methods and initiatives that you have been using to improve student engagement and we will add it to our resouces.
consultancy
Developing themes
sparqs provides customised, one-to-one support, advice and training to institutions and students' associations through its Consultancy. Through this work, strong themes continue to emerge where ongoing support can be provided in all areas of the engagement of learners.
