Liam presented a session around the theme of student engagement partnership. He focused on the challenges of such initiatives being students’ skills base, staff time to get engaged and recording activities. In institutions challenges were often around autonomy, academic resistance, compliance and gathering momentum.

Delivering partnership activity was however in everyone’s interest and was today and expectation. QAA include reference to this in a range of places and have indicators for this. The principles around partnership include demonstrating value, sharing understanding, clarity around terms and building capacity. There is no one successful model as diversity is important.