Welcome to the website of sparqs (student partnerships in quality Scotland), funded by the Scottish Funding Council.
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Happy New Year and sparqs' team news!
Happy New Year from all at sparqs! We wish everyone across the sector a happy and healthy 2025 and look forward to working with you all in the coming year. Our first news articles of 2025 have now been published, including…
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Launch of sparqs’ new SEAP Guidance
We are delighted to announce the publication of our SEAP Guidance for students’ associations and student officers, designed to support meaningful student engagement throughout the SEAP (Self-Evaluation and Action Plan) process. The guidance includes an overview of the SEAP process; some…
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Scotland's Ambition for Student Partnership... our new resource!
We are delighted to share our new resource, Scotland’s Ambition for Student Partnership, and its accompanying features and indicators. Commissioned by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), it builds on sparqs’ previous work supporting the sector to explore partnership and helps…
Read More...National Education Officers' Network meeting
25 Feb 2025
Our second meeting of sparqs’ National Education Officers’ Network (NEON) of 2024-25 will take place on…
Read more...Student Engagement Staff Network meeting
4 Feb 2025
The third meeting of our Student Engagement Staff Network (SESN) for academic year 2024-25 will take…
Read more...New year round-up and team news!
Happy new year from all in the sparqs team! We hope 2025 has started well for everyone and we look forward to working with you all again during the coming year! We begin the year with some exciting team news…. we…
Read More...Embedding student partnership within staff development project – your chance to get involved!
Many thanks to those of you who’ve already contributed to the current sparqs staff development project. The project is progressing well and we are delighted that we can now offer an opportunity for institutions to get involved in piloting project…
Read More...Next SESN on 4th February and relaunch of the Buddy Scheme!
Bookings are now open for the next Student Engagement Staff Network (SESN), which is taking place on Tuesday 4th February 2025, on Zoom, from 10.00am to 1.00pm. See the event booking page for all the details! The network is open for…
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