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Student engagement and consultation

Published 27 July 2020

Resources

Reports

Office for Students: Regulatory notice 1: Access and participation plan guidance
This guidance helps providers to understand what they need to include in their access and participation plan.
Office for Students: Regulatory advice 6: How to prepare your access and participation plan - effective practice advice
A step-by-step guide to creating an access and participation plan, together with effective practice advice on developing and delivering a successful strategy.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Higher Education Academy and Action on Access: What works? Student retention and success programme final report (April 2017)
This report highlights the importance of an institution-wide approach to improving retention and success.
REACT Project: Systematic literature review of 'hard to reach' students and methods of inclusive engagement (November 2017)
This report explores key issues and challenges to defining who ‘hard to reach’ students are, and draws out good practice in methods to engage these students.
The Higher Education Academy: Engagement through partnership: Students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education (July 2014)
This report suggests ways of overcoming the tensions between staff and student motivations.
Universities UK and the National Union of Students: Breaking down the barriers to student opportunities and youth social action (2015)
This report explores barriers to volunteering and social action and ways to effectively address them.
The Student Engagement Partnership (TSEP): Evaluating student engagement activity (2017)
This report focuses on the evaluation of student engagement initiatives and partnerships and how to better support student engagement practitioners.
Enhancement Themes: Students using evidence (September 2019)
This guide has been designed to support and encourage students and students’ association and union staff to actively engage with data and evidence. The guide highlights what good practice ‘evidence-informed’ collaboration can look like and achieve.

Published 27 July 2020

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