That's Quality! 2025 is open for bookings! 14 Apr 2025
We are pleased to announce that our annual That's Quality! programme for student officers and students’ association staff is now open for bookings! The 2025 event is split into three parts: The first part of That’s Quality! is a half-day, sector-specific online… Read More
Education officer induction and outduction resources 2025 14 Apr 2025
We are delighted to announce our annual update to our induction and outduction resources for education officers, designed to support institutions and students’ associations during their annual officer handover processes. The two updated resources we’ve published include: Education officer induction resource Education officer… Read More
Course Rep Training – your plans for 2025-26 14 Apr 2025
This article is a prompt for Course Rep Training Organisers (Representation Co-ordinators and those with similar remits in colleges and universities across Scotland) to consider your plans for delivering Course Rep Training (CRT) during 2025-26, if you haven’t already done… Read More
Blended Learning Resource Hub 14 Apr 2025
We are pleased to share the recently-developed Blended Learning Resource Hub, developed jointly by four Scottish quality agencies, with the aim of supporting the delivery of active blended learning in universities and colleges. The hub – which sits on the QAA… Read More
Combined planning meeting of JAG, NEON & SESN on 7th May 2025 14 Apr 2025
A reminder that sparqs’ three stakeholder forums will gather again in May for a joint, in-person meeting to explore sparqs' future work. On Wednesday 7th May 2025 sparqs’ Joint Advisory Group (JAG), National Education Officers’ Network (NEON) and Student Engagement Staff Network (SESN) and members of our… Read More
sparqs is recruiting student Associate Trainers for 2025-26 11 Apr 2025
sparqs 2025-26 Associate Trainer recruitment is open for applications - deadline 9am, Monday 12th May 2025! Calling all student reps! Do you have experience as a course/apprentice or other representative role? Will you be a student or apprentice during 2025-26? ....if so, and you… Read More
sparqs Institutional Visits: thank you and next steps 27 Feb 2025
sparqs conducted a series of institutional visits with 36 colleges, universities and tertiary institutions between October 2024 and February 2025. The purpose of these visits was: To discuss sparqs’ two key sector resources, the Student Learning Experience model and Scotland’s Ambition… Read More
Updated sparqs institutional contact list 27 Feb 2025
To support universities and colleges, members of sparqs staff act as key contacts for institutions. As announced in our New Year round-up article in January, we recently welcomed Chase Greenfield to the sparqs staff team as a Development Consultant. Consequently,… Read More
In case you missed them... 27 Feb 2025
A few reminders about some useful bits and pieces from our New Year round-up, in case you missed them.... Acronym Buster! As part of our current staff development project, we have created a new Acronym Buster as an early output of the project,… Read More
Opportunity for students to contribute to the SLE Sustainable Development lens - join the online event on 6th March! 27 Feb 2025
We are pleased to announce that sparqs is collaborating with EAUC Scotland and SOS-UK to develop the Sustainable Development lens of the Student Learning Experience model. This work will help to raise the profile of Sustainable Development as a key… Read More
Planning for the year ahead: a combined meeting of JAG, NEON and SESN 27 Feb 2025
Following previous successful combined events, sparqs’ three stakeholder forums will gather again in May for a joint, in-person meeting to explore sparqs' future work. On Wednesday 7th May 2025 sparqs’ Joint Advisory Group (JAG), National Education Officers’ Network (NEON) and Student Engagement Staff Network (SESN) and members… Read More
Opportunity to pilot staff development resources during April/May 2025! 27 Feb 2025
A reminder that there is an opportunity for institutions to pilot resources during April and May 2025 as part of our current staff development project! The project is around embedding student partnership within staff development and we're looking for volunteers… Read More
New year round-up and team news! 10 Jan 2025
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
Save the dates for our 2025 That’s Quality! event 10 Jan 2025
We are pleased to give early notification of the confirmed dates for our 2025 annual induction event for student officers and students’ association staff, That’s Quality! The event will once again be split into three parts: The first part of That’s Quality!… Read More
Embedding student partnership within staff development project – your chance to get involved! 10 Jan 2025
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
The next NEON meeting on 25th February is open to book! 10 Jan 2025
The second National Education Officers’ Network (NEON) meeting for 2024-25 is taking place on Tuesday 25th February 2025, on Zoom, from 10.30am to 12.30pm. See the event booking page to register to attend and please save the date in your… Read More
Next SESN on 4th February and relaunch of the Buddy Scheme! 10 Jan 2025
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… Read More
Our 2024-25 NEON programme begins on 10th December! 12 Nov 2024
sparqs is excited to announce the first of the National Education Officers Network (NEON) meetings for 2024-25, which will take place on Tuesday 10th December 2024, on Zoom, from 11.00am to 12.30pm. See the event booking page to sign up and save… Read More
Our recent resources and SFC SEAP drop-ins! 12 Nov 2024
A reminder about two of our recently-published resources, in case anyone missed them.... both designed to help institutions with the new tertiary quality arrangements, in terms of how partnership approaches can be built into institutional processes, and supporting meaningful student… Read More
sparqs' team news! 12 Nov 2024
We’ve recently wished a fond farewell to Megan McHaney, who has been working with us over the past year on a temporary consultancy basis. Megan’s work has been hugely valuable to sparqs, providing additional capacity during the development of some… Read More
