Why Is Student Feedback Important?
Listening and engaging with Student Voice is central to our values enabling us to work towards the shared goal of progressive change improving student experience to promote shared ownership and responsibility for the enhancement across learning and teaching and student life more widely.
Practical benefits: enhancing learning and teaching practice, ensuring relevance and rigour to meet students' needs, informing curriculum design and development through partnership and co-creation, supporting students as agents of meaningful change, as well as building a sense of community.
Reflecting on practice: recognising what is working well, learning from each other, and finding creative solutions to enhance practice.
Opportunities for dialogue and exchange: better understanding of the student perspective, justify why changes made or cannot be made, providing clarity and reducing miscommunication as well as sharing good practice.
Yet, students tell us that they are often not aware of how we are engaging with their feedback (reflected in e.g., NSS responses and SRC rep feedback) reducing student engagement, agency, and sense of belonging in the University.