Co-creating the curriculum through student academic partnerships
- Start date: 2010-09-14
- End date: 2011-07-29
- Status: complete
- Funding Initiative: EQUIP
Birmingham City University is focused on generating a vibrant and integrated learning community that fully involves staff and students in its academic and research development. This focus, through specific activities, has the potential to significantly impact upon institutional culture and the quality of the student learning experience and is driven through a stimulating partnership between the University and Birmingham City Students’ Union.
A major part of this activity has seen the creation of a Student Academic Partners (SAP) scheme which strives to co-create curriculum innovations through this new partnership. The first iteration of the SAP scheme in 2010 resulted in over 60 project applications and 23 funded projects, involving 35 students. Engineering, Art, Business, Law, Media and Nursing students engaged in the scheme as employed partners not assistants and were empowered to be active leads of project teams.
A further iteration of the SAP scheme will be launched in the autumn of 2010 and the project team hope that participation in EQUIP will help it put in place measures that enable the project’s educational rigour and evidence base to be placed beyond question and to use this evidence to inform and guide growth of the scheme and facilitate institutional change.
Lead Contact: Luke Millard
Organisation/Institutions:- Birmingham City University