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SVR meetings take place several times over the academic year at most of our academic partners and centres. They are a chance for our Student Voice Reps to come together to share their fellow classmates' perspectives about the student experience, hear updates from HISA about its work, and develop ideas and suggestions together for the enhancement of learning. The meetings are a hugely important part of our partnership working with UHI to improve the quality of learning.

This page tells you all about our SVR meetings: what we do at the meetings, our forthcoming dates, and the reports that come out of them.

If you're an SVR, please read on and get involved! If you are UHI staff, you're welcome to observe a meeting that is convenient to you from the list below.

Exploring the Student Learning Experience

Our SVR meetings aim to discuss many current developments at UHI, including the feedback that reps bring from their fellow students. One of our main discussions at each meeting is the Student Learning Experience (SLE) model developed by sparqs, Scotland's national agency for student partnership.

The SLE model is at the heart of Scotland’s Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework, which is the approach for colleges and universities to ensure we have high quality learning.

A wheel based model with nine headings on it, titled the Student Learning Experience model. Headings include things like curriculum, assessment and feedback, and guidance and support.

We in HISA cover the SLE model in detail in our training for SVRs, and we use it to help us have conversations with SVRs about learning. The model comprises nine building blocks with three underpinning lenses. Each building block contains ten questions that can be used or adapted to explore learning with students and staff.

Over 2025-26, and following a trial in 2024-25, we are using the building blocks as prompts for discussion at SVR meetings and in our SVR Teams space. This allows SVR input to be gathered proactively and spread across the learning experience.

SVR meeting dates

Our next round of meetings will be in February, and our SLE theme will be Resources, Environment and Technologies.

If you are an SVR, please attend your local Academic Partner meeting (you will have details by email or in the SVR Teams space); and if you are not able to make that, or your Academic Partner or centre is not listed, then you can join any other meeting that is convenient and accessible to you. If you are UHI staff, you are welcome to observe any of these meetings.

  • UHI Inverness: Tuesday 3rd February, 12.00 - 1.00 (in-person).
  • UHI Argyll: Wednesday 4th February, 12.00 - 1.00 (online).
  • UHI Shetland: Wednesday 4th February 12.30 - 1.30 (hybrid).
  • UHI Perth: Thursday 5th February, 12.30 - 1.30 (in-person).
  • UHI Inverness: Monday 9th February, 12.00 - 1.00 (online).
  • UHI North, West and Hebrides: Monday 9th February, 1.00 - 2.00 (online).
  • SAMS: Thursday 12th February, 12.30 - 1.30 (in-person).
  • UHI North, West and Hebrides: Thursday 12th February, 4.00 - 5.00 (online).
  • UHI Orkney: to be confirmed soon.

In March we will have just one cross-campus meeting, online, due to the Student Elections. It will be on Wednesday 18th March, 12.00 - 1.00 (online). Our SLE theme will be Guidance and Support.

For details of how to join any of these meetings, just contact your local HISA team or email us at rep.hisa@uhi.ac.uk.

SVR meeting reports

HISA's teams across the UHI partnership run their local SVR meetings, and work with relevant academic partner management to share outcomes and ideas. Each round of meetings - plus discussion in our SVR Teams space - will look at a topic from the SLE model.

We produce reports from our meetings, including on on our SLE theme for each round. You can find reports from 2025-26 below:

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