Terms of engagement

Our latest podcast focuses on the challenges and opportunities raised by approaches to student engagement.

Hosted by QAA's Dr Matt Denton, this episode considers how strategies for learner engagement might develop to address the needs of a higher education environment which has, in recent years, been radically affected by the impacts of a series of traumatic developments: the Covid-19 crisis, the cost-of-living crisis and the ongoing student mental health crisis.

Our podcast considers how educators and providers are responding to the changing ways in which students, often now also facing work, family and carer responsibilities, are engaging with their studies, and asks whether traditional modes of engagement really matter if their academic attainment metrics still look fine.

Our host Matt is joined by the University of Manchester's Professor Rebecca Hodgson, the University of Westminster's Tom Lowe, and NUS Vice President for Higher Education Alex Stanley.