Preparing your course rep system and recruiting your reps during COVID-19 - sparqs

This briefing note is the first in a series designed to support students’ associations and institutions in devising and executing rep systems that can operate in COVID-19’s changing environment, including how they can operate online.
This first briefing note is focused on the initial planning stages of developing this new system and the subsequent recruitment of new course reps.
For further information, please contact:
- Name: Eve Lewis
- Role: Director, sparqs
- Email: eve.lewis@sparqs.ac.uk
(July 2020)
Item Number:267
- Student Guide to Institutional Liaison Meetings - sparqs
- Tertiary Quality Enhancement Review (TQER) - Practical Guide for students’ associations and student officers - sparqs
- Self-Evaluation and Action Plan (SEAP) - Practical guide to student partnership - sparqs
- An induction guide for Academic Representation Co-ordinators - sparqs
- A guide to inducting students association education officers - sparqs
- Supporting the future careers of SA education officers: outduction toolkit - sparqs et al
- Academic Development Toolkit - sparqs
- Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework (TQEF) - Guidance for Elections - sparqs
- Scotland’s Tertiary Enhancement Programme (STEP) - Practical Guide to student partnership - sparqs
- Using the SLE model as a Course Rep 2025-26 - sparqs
- Online Student Learning Experience Model - Perth College UHI
- Student Partnership Staircase - sparqs
- ABCD of Effective Feedback - sparqs
- Theory of partnership: Ladder of Citizen Participation - Sherry R Arnstein
- Students as active partners in shaping their learning experience - Leeds Trinity University College
- Understanding the SU's key relationships: The Cadogan Matrice
- Grid for developing tools of feedback from students - sparqs
- Framework for the Development of Strong and Effective College Students
- A Student Engagement Framework for Scotland - sparqs and sector partners
- Engaging Students in Online Distance Learning - sparqs
For all resources published by sparqs, see the "sparqs Resources" category in the list on the left, including the following:
- Student Learning Experience model
- Scotland's Ambition for Student Partnership
- A Student Engagement Framework for Scotland
+ resources linked to the SEF - Academic Development Toolkit
- ABCD of Effective Feedback
- Student Partnership Staircase
See all sparqs publications (Strategic Plans, celebration reports, etc.) here.
