Each Academic Partner (AP) at UHI has it’s own Board of Management or Trustee Board which has a legal responsibility to run that AP. There are places for a Chair, members outwith the AP and for at least one student member.
HISA has been working since November 2021 on mapping how this level of decision-making works across the UHI partnership at a local level, discussing with student board members and board representatives what they need to be an effective voice for students, and identifying how we support our staff to support student board members. We called this the Board of Management Project.
Following this big piece of work, we do the following to support student involvement in governance across the UHI partnership:
- Providing support and training to our elected officers around involvement in UHI/Academic Partner governance so they can represent student views where decisions are made
- Support recruiting student board members where appropriate so the student voice is maximised in these meetings
- Sharing student concerns and feedback to Boards/UHI so they can act on the issues that most impact our students
- Maximising student input into current UHI Transformation discussions so that the future of UHI takes students’ views into consideration
- Reporting on HISA’s work at Boards/UHI meetings to show how our work impacts students, allowing us to advocate for our members
You can read on the history of our work on this by visiting our Board of Management Project page, but if you have any questions about this work and want to find out more about getting involved, please email hisa@uhi.ac.uk for more information.