Student Partnership. The University’s positive partnership working with its Student Representative Bodies (SRBs) was commended in the recent ELIR Review; indeed, HWU has been commended in all four ELIRs for its partnership with students and the engagement of students in institutional decision-making. The University effectively engages with its SRBs, involving them in active consultation and decision-making processes. They have built, over a period of time, open and collegial relationships between senior management and student officers which demonstrate mutual respect, leading to increasing effective student representation and in turn effective enhancement of the student learning experience. HWU ELIR4, November 2020 The single, global Student Partnership Agreement (SPA) provides the focal point for collaboration between the three SRBs and the University. The 2020/21 SPA, which retains the structure of the two preceding versions of Academic, Wellbeing and Community, includes the following key initiatives: • Continue the “Big Feedback Conversation” (an initiative undertaken in collaboration with the Learning and Teaching Academy), with emphasis on Responsive Blended Learning and its effects on the feedback culture within the institution; • Develop a Global Postgraduate Taught Representative Structure; • Enhance the monitoring of ethnicity attainment across global HWU; • Embed sustainability into the curriculum; • Introduce a series of Enhancement Lectures, comprising extra-curricular lectures or webinars on topical or societal issues, drawing on institutional research and knowledge, or with a focus on professional development and becoming a rounded graduate, eg Black Lives Matter movement, fast fashion, enterprise, blue circular economy, financial wellbeing; • Introduce a Global Virtual Conference open to all HWU staff and students as part of Wellbeing Week/Global Mental Health Awareness Day.
