NUS launches Student Engagement Project
NUS is pleased to announce a new project on engaging students in shaping their learning experiences in England. This joint project with the Higher Education Academy and funded by HEFCE will provide materials and toolkits for students' unions and institutions to support improved engagement of students.
The project is geared to build a platform to support a real step-change in the participation and effectiveness of student engagement providing institutions and students’ unions with the materials and space to discuss and improve how they engage students.
Project aims:
- To develop materials and resources for students’ unions and institutions to improve how they engage students in shaping their learning experience. These materials, both hard copies and online versions, will address representation structures, feedback mechanisms and how institutions engage students in shaping their curriculum. They will also support institutional evaluation of how they are currently engaging students.
- To facilitate students, student representatives and academics in subject areas to discuss teaching and learning issues and approaches to pedagogy to enhance the student learning experience.
- To bring students, academics and senior managers within institutions together to discuss student engagement at national level in two conferences.
- Produce two publications on student engagement which focus on what student engagement is, why it is important, and provides examples of effective practice with different perspectives from across the diversity of the sector.
Materials will be disseminated through the conferences, the websites of the Academy and the NUS, with links to members of the Cross-Sector Group (DBIS, GuildHE, QAA, NUS, AoC, ARC, the Academy, HEFCE, DELNI and OIA) to further promote dissemination of the materials and deliver the maximum impact of the project. You can read a more complete project outline: here.
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