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 identify how partnership approaches can be built into the mechanisms and processes within the new quality arrangements, the Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework (TQEF).
‘Student Engagement and Partnership’ is embedded in the TQEF as one of the six principles, reflecting the importance of this approach within the TQEF. Scotland’s Ambition for Student Partnership underpins this principle.
The ambition statement is aspirational. It is recognised that, whilst there is significant good practice across Scotland, to achieve our ambition will require continued enhancement activity and this will be a journey for individual institutions and the sector as a whole.
The ambition statement is underpinned by 8 features. We will know that we have achieved a culture of student partnership when these features are embedded into institutions’ systems and processes.
Each feature of student partnership can be explored further through indicators of practice. These indicators are not designed to be a checklist – they are designed to be examples of practice which institutions and students’ associations can use to identify their current best practice and opportunities for development.
For further information see our Scotland's Ambition for Student Partnership webpage and read more about student engagement and partnership in the TQEF on our Quality Arrangements webpage.
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For further information on any of the above, please contact Megan Brown, Senior Development Consultant - megan.brown@sparqs.ac.uk.