If you wish to sign up to the Buddy Scheme to be paired up with another staff member in student engagement (Scotland) you now have until Tuesday 14th October to do so, you can find out more here: www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

sparqs have recently moved to a new office, now at 24 Forth Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3LH.

Registration closes TODAY to our staff Buddy Scheme for 2025-26! Sign up by 30th September to be paired up with a practitioner in student engagement across institutions and SAs in Scotland. Please share with anyone you think may be interested... www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

Help shape the future of SQA digital certificates! The survey only takes a few minutes to complete: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... If you have questions, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].

Our Tertiary Quality Student Expert Group (TQSEG) facilitates a joined-up approach to the student voice during the development and implementation of Scotland's Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework (TQEF). More information on sparqs' work can be found at: sparqs.ac.uk

If sparqs delivers your Course Rep Training, a reminder that bookings are open for the coming year, with sessions deliverable from week beginning 29th September onwards! Find all of the info here: www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

At the QAA Quality Insights Conference Autumn 2025, on 2nd October, sparqs' Development Consultant Chase Greenfield and former Director of Education at St Andrews Students' Association Hitanshi Badani are part of the panel session: "Inclusive student engagement that inspires confidence"

Help shape the future of SQA digital certificates! The survey only takes a few minutes to complete: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... If you have questions, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].

There's still time to sign up to our staff Buddy Scheme for 2025-26! Sign up by 30th September to be paired up with a practitioner in student engagement across institutions and SAs in Scotland. Please share to anyone you think may be interested... More info here: www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

We are excited to announce that sparqs is currently recruiting for a Deputy Director to join our staff team. Please share the details with anyone who may be interested in this exciting new post! www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

Available now... our new TQER guide for SA staff and officers, which provides an overview of the Tertiary Quality Enhancement Review process and makes practical suggestions of what you need to do at each stage. Find it here: www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

FAO student officers with a remit in academic representation and education... our National Education Officers' Network (NEON) meeting on 28th October is open to book! Save the dates for 17th December & 5th March too! Sign up here: www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

A reminder that our first Student Engagement Staff Network (SESN) meeting of the AY is on Thursday, 23rd October, 10am - 1pm and is open to book! You can also save the dates for the next meetings on 27th November & 12th February! Sign up here: www.sparqs.ac.uk/event-detail...

Published today... our new TQER guide for SA staff and officers which provides an overview of the Tertiary Quality Enhancement Review process and makes practical suggestions of what you need to do at each stage. www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

Our latest news articles have just been published, featuring our new TQER guidance and TQER training, recently-updated SEAP guidance, plus lots of reminders! www.sparqs.ac.uk/news.php

🎉 Big news! We’ve launched the Tertiary Self-Evaluation Toolkit (TSET) – your new go-to guide for shaping Self-Evaluation & Action Plans. Think case studies, podcasts, & practical tips 💡 Start exploring on CDN LearnOnline 👇 bit.ly/4mpAktY #TQEF #Enhancement

There's still time to sign up to our staff Buddy Scheme for 2025-26! Sign up by 30th September to be paired up with a practitioner in student engagement across institutions and SAs in Scotland. Please share to anyone you think may be interested... sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

If sparqs delivers your Course Rep Training, a reminder that bookings are open for the coming year, with sessions deliverable from week beginning 29th September onwards! Find all the info here: www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

sparqs staff joined a great SHED session today as part of the Assessment & Feedback SIG, with talks from QAA, Dundee & Angus College, and Glasgow City College. A valuable chance to reflect on how TQEF supports enhancement-led assessment and feedback. #TQEF #sparqs #SHED

Hot on the heels of our SEAP guidance... we have TQER guidance for SAs and officers coming very soon! It provides a context and overview to the Tertiary Quality Enhancement Review process and makes practical suggestions of what you need to do at each stage. Watch this space!

A reminder about our updated 'SEAP practical guide to student partnership', designed to support meaningful student engagement throughout the process of developing your annual SEAP submission as part of the TQEF. sparqs.ac.uk/announcement...

Our next batch of news articles is coming very soon, so if you're not already on the sparqs mailing list, you can sign up here: sparqs.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

There's still time to sign up to our staff Buddy Scheme for 2025-26! Sign up by 30th September to be paired up with a practitioner in student engagement across institutions and SAs in Scotland. Please share to anyone you think may be interested... sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

We were pleased to be involved in Principle 2 around Engaging Students as Partners. The recording from the webinar is now available... 📑 Principle 2: 🔗 buff.ly/OpNQ2On

✨ Something new is coming... A fresh look. A smarter space. A better way to connect, learn, and grow. This is #YourCDN – and it’s almost here. 👀 Stay tuned. www.cdn.ac.uk

This afternoon we look forward to delivering our first Tertiary Quality Enhancement Review (TQER) training session, part of a rolling programme of support to relevant institutions, depending on the timing of their review. More info in our next batch of news articles coming soon!

A reminder FAO student officers with a remit in academic representation and education... our National Education Officers' Network (NEON) meeting on 28th October is open to book! Save the dates for 17th December & 5th March too! All the info is here: sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

A reminder that our first Student Engagement Staff Network (SESN) meeting of the AY on 23rd October is open to book! You can also save the dates for the next meetings on 27th November & 12th February! All the details here: sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

If sparqs delivers your Course Rep Training, a reminder that bookings are open for the coming year, with sessions deliverable from week beginning 29th September onwards! Find all the info here: sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

A reminder about our recently-published, updated 'SEAP practical guide to student partnership', designed to support meaningful student engagement throughout the process of developing your annual SEAP submission as part of the TQEF. www.sparqs.ac.uk/announcement...

Our staff Buddy Scheme is back for 2025-26! Sign up by 30th September if you'd like to be paired up with a practitioner in student engagement across institutions and SAs in Scotland... www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

FAO student officers with a remit in academic representation and education... our National Education Officers' Network (NEON) meeting on 28th October is open to book! Save the dates for 17th December & 5th March too! All the info is here: www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

Our first Student Engagement Staff Network (SESN) meeting of the AY on 23rd October is open to book! You can also save the dates for the next meetings on 27th November & 12th February! All the details here: www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

So lovely to catch up with so many people at #RAISE25, some whom I’ve not seen for years. Good to have a mini-reunion with old @sparqs-scotland.bsky.social colleagues Megan and Stef too!

Today and tomorrow we're at the 2025 RAISE conference in Glasgow and we're delighted to be running a workshop today on Student Partnership & the Student Learning Experience! www.raise-network.com/conference-2...

Talking of CRT... meet our 2025-26 Associate Trainers, our fantastic team of student trainers who have just undertaken our 4-day event to equip them to train your course reps! This year we have 8 returners and 11 newly-recruited ATs... all raring to go! www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

As featured in our recent news articles, sparqs Course Rep Training is open to book for the coming year, with sessions deliverable from week beginning 29th September onwards! Find all the info here if sparqs delivers your CRT: www.sparqs.ac.uk/news-detail....

Ahh we've missed your puns Simon! 😂💙

Currently preparing your SEAP? We're pleased to publish our updated 'SEAP practical guide to student partnership', designed to support meaningful student engagement throughout the process of developing your annual SEAP submission as part of the TQEF. www.sparqs.ac.uk/resource-ite...

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted and best of luck!

Our latest news articles were published today, including... team staffing news, CRT is open for bookings, welcome to our 2025-26 AT team, NEON & SESN dates, staff Buddy Scheme opportunity, That's Quality! round-up and more! Find them all here: www.sparqs.ac.uk/news.php

That's a wrap on our 'train the trainer' event for 2025! Well done everyone, it's been a great week and we hope you all enjoyed it and are looking forward to delivering Course Rep Training over the coming year!💙

At the final day of our 4-day 'train the trainer' event, today the trainers are practicing their online CRT delivery! It was a great 3 days at QMU, here's our fantastic team of sparqs ATs and IATs at the end of the residential! Congratulations everyone!

Day 3 of our annual 'train the trainer' is the final day of the residential at @qmuniversity.bsky.social. Day 4 tomorrow is by VC, to allow delegates to practice online delivery of the Course Rep Training!

It's day 2 of our training at @qmuniversity.bsky.social, our annual residential event for sparqs and Institutional Associate Trainers, equipping them to deliver Course Rep Training to their peers over the coming academic year.

Today we're delighted to welcome Shona Agnew to the sparqs staff team as a new Development Consultant! What better way to start than at a 4-day summer training event! Welcome to the team Shona.... we promise next week will be less hectic!

Good morning to everyone joining us today for our annual training event for sparqs and Institutional Associate Trainers, who will be delivering Course Rep Training to their peers over the coming academic year. See you soon at @qmuniversity.bsky.social for day 1 of 4!

A heads up that the sparqs office will be closed for a bank holiday on Monday, 25th August. We'll be back online on Tuesday 26th! www.sparqs.ac.uk/announcement...

Thanks to everyone who joined us for That's Quality! last week! #sparqsTQ We're now finishing the prep for our next summer training residential across Tues-Friday next week... training sparqs and Institutional Associate Trainers to deliver CRT in the coming year!

It's full steam ahead at sparqs with That's Quality! prep! #sparqsTQ Hope you're all enjoying the self-study module, joining instructions for the residential at @qmuniversity.bsky.social on 11/12th Aug will be circulated soon!