Thank you to everyone who attended our annual That's Quality! programme for student officers and students’ association staff.
The 2025 event was split into three parts:
- The first part of That’s Quality! was a half-day, sector-specific online event in July.
- The second part is an online self-study module, which provides officers with a more detailed overview of quality in Scotland and is designed to be used throughout an officer’s time in office.
- Finally, attendees of both events came together for a joint, two-day, in-person training event in August. The two-day event was residential, with a dinner on the first evening, allowing for social and networking opportunities.
The joint residential event was an opportunity for interactive group activities which allowed attendees to explore what they had learnt in practice and to network with colleagues from across the tertiary sector.
This is a three-part training course and attendees were required to attend both the online session and the joint event, as well as completing the self-study module.
The hashtag for the event on social media was #sparqsTQ
Audience
That’s Quality! is aimed at new and returning student officers and students' association staff with an education remit. It provides a valuable addition to planned inductions for new officers - introducing participants to the quality enhancement agenda, looking at why quality matters to students and how to use it to make change. It can form a part of wider education officer inductions, as supported in our recently updated induction toolkit for 2025-26.
Dates and details
The details of the three-part event package were as follows:
Part 1: half-day, online event on Tuesday 22nd July 2025 via Zoom.
- Colleges – 10.00am-1.00pm
- Universities – 2.00pm-5.00pm
Part 2: completion of an online, sector-specific, self-study module.
Part 3: two-day residential event (jointly with both college and university delegates) on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th August 2025, Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh.
Costs
The cost of the three-part package was £95 per delegate. The cost included dinner, bed and breakfast at the residential event (accommodation is in single rooms). sparqs covered all the other event costs, e.g. meeting rooms, catering and development of all online materials.
The event pages, where materials were uploaded throughout the programme, can be accessed below:
Queries
For further information, please contact Megan Brown, Senior Development Consultant (megan.brown@sparqs.ac.uk).