Professional standards framework for student engagement - sparqs

This resource is designed to help articulate the value and impact of student engagement staff posts, offering a definition of the values, knowledge and activities of such roles.
It illustrates the increasing importance of professional posts in institutions and students’ associations dedicated to student engagement. The framework can be used to reflect on and revise the job descriptions or person specifications of such posts, or as the basis of planning professional development activities.
Those in other roles, such as teaching, support and management, may also find that the framework can be useful in articulating the student engagement dimensions of their roles.
More about the professional standards framework for student engagement, plus details of accompanying resources, can be found on the framework’s webpage within the staff development section of the sparqs website.
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For further information, please contact us at admin@sparqs.ac.uk.
(June 2022)
Item Number:285
- 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
- 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
- Using the SLE model as a Course Rep 2025-26 - 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
- Scotland's Ambition for Student Partnership - sparqs
- Online Student Learning Experience Model - Perth College UHI
- Student Partnership Staircase - sparqs
- Students as active partners in shaping their learning experience - Leeds Trinity University College
- ABCD of Effective Feedback - sparqs
- Theory of partnership: Ladder of Citizen Participation - Sherry R Arnstein
- Understanding the SU's key relationships: The Cadogan Matrice
- 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
- Supporting Senior Student Officers in Universities - 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 - ABCD of Effective Feedback
- Student Partnership Staircase
See all sparqs publications (Strategic Plans, celebration reports, etc.) here.
