Welcome to our new Student Advisory Panel blog.
Catch up on what Panels have taken place and how our Panel members are making a difference to creating an exceptional student experience. Their insights are supporting students, from a range of backgrounds at Edge Hill, to feel like they belong and to access knowledge and opportunities to reach their full academic potential and thrive on their course and beyond.
Why we do the work we do?
The themes that our speakers bring to Panel for discussion are always linked to our Access and Participation Plan (APP). Which outlines EHU’s commitment to improving outcomes for students from underrepresented backgrounds, whilst the APP is quite a lengthy document, our targets, and the strategies we propose to meet them, have been summarised in our Widening Access and Student Success Strategy.
What have we been up to?
In October, we hit the ground running with our Student Advisory Panel for 2024/25 and we’d like to extend a huge thank you to the speakers and members who have participated so far.
To date we have held the following panels and met with numerous teams across Edge Hill including:
- Money Advice – Money Advice Team
- NNECL Quality Mark – Widening Access and Student Success team
- Uniskills sessions – Student Engagement team
- Belonging – Widening Access team
- Target Connect: student portal – Customer Support team
- Student Success recruitment and application processes – Student Success team
What happens after a Student Advisory Panel?
Our Student Success Team get straight to work making sure that our member insights are taken forward as considerations by the right team.
We spend some time carefully reading through the minutes looking to identify which points of feedback link to our Widening Access and Student Success Strategy targets and interventions and we feed these back to the relevant team and monitor these over the academic year.
Here is a flavour of some of the things we have been able to feedback on already in Semester 1:
- Ways to enhance a service’s pre-entry offer
- Ways to enhance a service’s face to face offer
- Ways to make a service’s offer more visible
- Viability of designing a new academic skills module for BTEC learners
- Enhancements to transitional support between years
Sometimes there will be really quick wins; sometimes things take a little longer, especially when bigger projects are underway, but we are listening, and we are feeding back.
Where something crops up that isn’t directly for the attending team, we will pass member feedback to the Student Insight team and they will publish any detail on the ‘You said, we listened’ student voice webpages.
We are really excited about our upcoming panels in the New Year and our next blog will be published on our Student Advisory Panel webpage in March with more interesting insights and updates on the wonderful work of our Student Advisory Panel.
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