A new Policy Note published by the Higher Education Policy Institute, Student belonging and the wider context (Policy Note 39, attached) by Dr Richard Vytniorgu, uses structured interviews with students to explore the sense of belonging among students.
The Policy Note shows students’ sense of belonging in their higher education institution is best situated in the context of students’ sense of belonging in the wider world. Too often, student belonging in higher education is evaluated as an isolated phenomenon, specific to being a student. But students’ attitudes to belonging at university or college correlate with their attitudes to belonging more generally.
