Student leaders in university meetings tell me that recently “student engagement” has been a hot topic.
There’s a feeling of stress in the sector about engagement levels being low – and a rhetoric suggesting that universities are doing more than ever for students – but they’re still not turning up.
SU Officers (and plenty of others in a student facing role) have been asked to perform the usual collective mind-reading trick and explain why cohorts of 30,000+ students aren’t taking part in the way that universities would like.
There’s work to be done here – and it arguably starts with agreeing what we’re talking about.
