1. Students driving change in education Ellie Russell Student Engagement & Partnership Manager Gareth Lindop Engagement & Quality Manager

2. About TSEP A strategic partnership across the English HE sector agencies and representative bodies. An NUS-hosted staff unit delivering projects, research and practitioner support.

3. Engagement & Quality Team Supporting providers and making the case to the sector to enhance student engagement across Further Education Governance Quality improvement Teaching & Learning

4. Student leadership: discuss PurposeSpaces and interventions Outcomes Set by who? What are the drivers? What are the intended outcomes? Where do conversations happen? Where is action agreed or takes place? Who is leading the space or intervention? What investments in individuals and/or processes are made? What are they? How do you know? What happens as a result?

5. Challenges Purpose: often co-opted by institutions as a dimension of assurance and performance Spaces and interventions: often an institutional or academic paradigm Support is focussed on individuals to compensate for processes Enhancement happening at local level- innovation and opportunities to affect change are limited or hard to identify Outcomes: engagement as a product Evaluation? Often use student voices as a data source without necessarily engaging with student voices S A T L R I A G T N E M G E I N C T

6. What are providers looking for? Quality Learning Experience Outcomes for learners - Did the learning lead to students going on to jobs, a higher level course, increased salary etc. Success Rates - How many learners achieved or did better than expected Retention - The number of students who have stayed on their course Attendance rates - How many students are coming to their taught sessions Teaching standards - Sometimes measured through observations

7. Student engagement eco-system Student researchers Representation Academic societies Peer assisted learning SLTA’s Teaching and learning conferences What else?

8. Student voice in teaching and learning Individual autonomous learners Connected learning cohort Enhancing teaching and learning

9. Options What is the role of representation and what are its limitations? 1.Get rid of course representatives (probably not) 2.Adapt representative systems to produce new ways of thinking about education 3.Be clear about what representation can do and identify what else is needed

10. Stay in touch ellie.russell@nus.org.uk www.tsep.org.uk gareth.lindop@nus.org.uk http://sgsp.nusconnect.org.uk