Great contributions from Michael Russell (Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning), Anne-Marie Docherty (student and sparqs Associate Trainer), Liam Burns (President of NUS UK) and Professor Norman Sharp OBE (independent chair of sparqs steering committee) helped make the sparqs Parliamentary event a great success. Click here to read more…
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sparqs first parliamentary reception being held on Tuesday 11th December 2012 will follow the launch of 3 important publications – A Student Engagement Framework for Scotland; a report celebrating the successes of student engagement in Scotland; and sparqs new strategic plan for 2013-18. Click here to read more…
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The Supporting College Student Governors Autumn Course will be held on 12th, 13th and 14th October 2012 – make sure you’re there! Click here to read more…
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That’s Quality! is our annual event to introduce university student officers to the Quality Enhancement Framework and how its different elements could be used during their term as officers. Click here to read more…
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Event to be held in Stirling on Monday 18th June 2012 to continue the sharing and development of practice among student engagement practitioners. Click here to read more…
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With several Scottish Universities now developing Higher Education Achievement Reports (HEAR), sparqs is holding an event to explore how to include course reps within section 6.1 of HEAR. Click here to read more…
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sparqs and NUS Scotland will be running the Supporting College Student Governors Summer Course on Friday the 29th and Saturday the 30th of June 2012 at NUS Scotland’s offices. Click here to read more…
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A consultation event for the new QAA code of practice chapter on Student Engagement is to be held on Thursday 15th March 2012 at Glasgow Caledonian University. Click here to read more…
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A new network for staff with student engagement roles has been established by Scotland’s Colleges with support from sparqs and NUS Scotland. It will be launched at an event at Angus College on 19th March 2012. Click here to read more…
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How can you formally recognise the role of course reps? By utilising the Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR) section 6.1, reps can have their achievements recorded. Click here to read more…
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Numerous resources, toolkits, guides and materials exist throughout the sector. sparqs will hold events later this year to showcase these to practitioners. Click here to read more…
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Through transporting ourselves to a future 5 years from now the sparqs team and representatives from all our major stakeholders were able to start creating a vision for the future to help shape our new strategic plan. Click here to read more…
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