
Providing assurance about academic governance and the student experience is a core function of the governing body, yet we know that governing bodies can lack confidence in this area and huge changes in approaches to teaching and learning as a result of Covid-19 means that performance may be even harder to gauge.
Booking and price information
Event date: 28 June 2023
Location: Virtual
“The governing body must actively seek and receive assurance that academic governance is robust and effective” CUC HE Code of Governance 2020
This virtual event, taking place on 28 June 2023, is specifically designed for Chairs and all governors who wish to understand more about how they can assure the quality of education and the student experience appropriately in the light of recent events.
Using our insight from working with over 350 members worldwide and bringing together key partners, you will hear:
- Advance HE experts in teaching and learning sharing evidence on educational developments in the last year and the questions these raise
- Student perspectives on the evidence about lived-experiences in UK HE
- Governor and secretary perspectives and lessons learned on actions taken to achieve effective assurance by the Board
- Regulator insights about expectations and key issues we need to consider.
The event will be an interactive session with opportunity for governors to network in an online environment and share their views as well as ask questions of speakers and each other.
Event outcomes
Attendees will:
- Develop a better understanding of educational developments, academic governance and assurance in practice
- Develop confidence about their role
- Learn from other governors’ and Board approaches.

Programme
09:30am Welcome and Introductions - Aaron Porter, Associate Director (Governance), Advance HE
09:50am Understanding the Student Experience Policy Environment
10:30am The AHE/HEPI Student Experience Survey - Jonathan Neves, Head of Business Intelligence & Surveys, Advance HE
11:00am Break
11:15am Panel - Delivering the Student Voice on the Board - Benedict Wills, SU President, NTU & Diana Dakik, SU President, University of Surrey & Rhiannon Jenkins, SU President, University of Leicester & Dan Chavalier, SU Vice-President, Univeristy of Winchester
12:00pm Breakout discussions - how do you monitor and have oversight of the student experience?
12:30pm Feedback from groups
12:45pm Close

Speakers

Student voices video
Self-filmed during the Covid-19 pandemic, in this short video first and second year students talk about their higher education experiences and describe the challenges they face, what they enjoy and what they would change.
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