Common use of Consulting with Students Clause in Contracts

Consulting with Students. The College has a learner involvement strategy that establishes how and when the College seeks to ascertain the views of students. The strategy also highlights how feedback is then utilised as an element of the annual planning, review and self-assessment processes, to inform improvements. Some of these improvements have occurred throughout the content of this report. This takes the form of a number of student forums, that are scheduled throughout the academic year. Feedback from these are acted upon at programme and strategic level, with feedback used to inform any changes to programme structure. Representatives from each HE programme that the College delivers are represented at the scheduled student forums. Each event has a set agenda, addressing issues around curriculum, the learning environment, value for money, IT facilities and general resources. Module evaluations are also completed with the feedback utilised to improve provision. The initial planning of the access agreement began with student focus groups at secondary schools local to the Rotherham/Bassetlaw area. The students were asked for their views on what they felt were priorities in future HE studies, be that financial support or academic tutoring, for example. We will continue to survey current students on their financial support needs to better target financial allocations to our students. We will survey students all three HE academic years, as well as, our FE students. Each academic year may have different financial requirements. Likewise, FE students may be able to inform RNN Group of financial difficulties that will affect their application into HE.