A guide to inducting students association education officers - sparqs

This guide supports students’ association and institutional staff who are responsible for creating or enhancing an annual induction programme for incoming students’ association education officers. The guide is based on the principle of partnership between the students’ association and staff in management, quality and governance roles, who should all contribute to an effective induction programme.

To help these key partners build or enhance an education officer induction programme, the guide contains suggestions such as:

• • Ideas to support handover between incoming and outgoing education officers.
  • Example session topics, workshop ideas, and training sessions key topics in learning and teaching.
  • An example activity to introduce incoming education officers to the Student Learning Experience model.
  • Advice to support the education officer’s induction to institutional committees, boards, and working groups.
  • Opportunities for the governing board or body to support the education officer’s induction.
  • Reflective questions to help develop an education officer role profile.
  • A sample timeline of an education officer induction programme.

Originally published as a resource for colleges in spring 2020, this guide was developed in response to sector demand. Since then, it has been updated year on year and has now been expanded into a tertiary resource for both colleges and universities.  It will continue to be updated on an annual basis, in line with specific changes in the context of the role.
  

For further information, please contact: 

• Name: Chase Greenfield
• Role: Development Consultant
• Email: chase.greenfield@sparqs.ac.uk 
• Phone: 07701 273779  
   

(Updated April 2025)

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