Engaging students in the city: Inter-institution approaches to skills and engaged learning - HEA Annual Conference 2017 - Generation TEF: Teaching in the spotlight

This session explores the development of whole institution approaches to engaging students in the city / community as a vehicle for student skills development and city transformation. Based upon the experience of the University of Bristol UWE and their student unions in theit Student Capital: Green Capital project delivering over 100 000 hours a year of student engagement in the city funded by HEFCE and the lessons from that in terms of the impact upon student skills employability and sense of belonging. It explores the opportunities obstacles and impacts. The session will use the Bristol experience as a starting point for exploring opportunities in other institutions and cities and help the project develop an understanding of transferability.