Educational Partnerships Support and Resources
Here you will find information and resources to support those working with and for BSU's educational partners.
Partnership Support
This section provides information and guidance and useful signposting to support staff at Educational Partner Institutions and Bath Spa staff working with Educational Partners.
This key contacts diagram shows some of the teams and staff at BSU who work closely with Educational Partners. A more detailed contacts list for the University (including responsibilities for each team) is included in the Educational Partners Toolkit. To request a digital copy of this contacts list, please contact edpartnership@bathspa.ac.uk.
The Educational Partners Toolkits have been designed to support staff at educational partners to deliver Bath Spa awards (franchised and validated). The toolkits include the CEP Calendar, the (Academic) Quality Calendar, BSU contacts and useful links, student induction guidance, Student Finance information, term dates guidance, the assessment and Grade Journey process and other resources.
To request a digital copy of the Educational Partners Toolkit, please contact edpartnership@bathspa.ac.uk.
The Academic Governance and Quality team ensures the effective operation of the academic governance of the University and compliance with the University's academic policies in alignment with external regulatory bodies for UK Higher Education.
Find Bath Spa University's Quality Handbook which includes Partnership Management Policies. For advice and guidance on any of our academic policies, please contact academicgovernance@bathspa.ac.uk.
The Bath Spa Policies page includes University wide policies including Admissions, Attendance and Engagement, Academic Frameworks, Academic Regulations, Complaints, Data and Research policies. For advice on any of our University Policies, please contact edpartnership@bathspa.ac.uk.
For BSU's Assessment and Feedback Policy, information about Subject Boards, Academic Integrity and Central Assessment Board schedules please visit the Assessments page.
Educational partner colleagues may need access to some BSU systems to support the delivery of BSU awards at external institutions. Access to BSU systems is provided depending on the type of partnership arrangement, the terms of the University's contract with a specific partner, the limitations and costs of any 3rd party licence agreements with the University.
The Educational Partner Toolkit (for Franchised awards) contains a helpful flowchart to guide colleagues through the BSU system access request process. For further advice or to request a digital copy of this flowchart, please contact edpartnerships@bathspa.ac.uk.
For information about accessing BSU Library resources, please contact library@bathspa.ac.uk
Digital Library resources databases can be accessed via the Library page.
Academic Professional Development
Bath Spa University makes its academic professional development provision available to staff at Educational Partnership Institutions wherever this is possible. This section signposts to the more common opportunities offered by Bath Spa University for colleagues working at Educational Partner Institutions.
Bath Spa offers a range of digital and in-person workshops to academic and professional services staff who have responsibility for teaching and/or facilitating student learning. A number of the workshops are open to Bath Spa's Educational Partners.
Those most likely to be of interest are:
- Digital Accessibility
- Introduction to Generative AI
- Working with Interactive Whiteboards
Click here to see our workshop timetable and to request a place. For further information, contact digital-learning-developers@bathspa.ac.uk.
Learning Innovation and Skills also offer a range of student-facing videos to support the use of Generative AI. These are collated on their Youtube channel.
Bath Spa's annual Learning and Teaching Symposium is an annual opportunity to reflect, celebrate and look forward. We welcome the opportunity to share ideas with colleagues across the University and our educational partners, and we would love to hear about your learning and teaching experiences, innovations and research.
The Symposium is typically hosted in July every year, and information for the next symposium circulated early in each calendar year. Further information is available from the Teaching Expertise Development team at TED@bathspa.ac.uk.
Centre for Policy, Pedagogy and Practice: An interdisciplinary research centre based in the School of Education. The “HE Pedagogy and Practice” research strand aims to develop the evidence base for our work, supporting and informing an evidence-based approach.
This provides a university-level central home for pedagogic and practice-based research and support, across all the disciplines and Schools.
The Teaching Expertise Development team can work with teams at Educational Partner Institutions to offer bespoke workshops and events to meet specific needs. Recent workshops and events of this nature have focused on:
- Curriculum design (at programme or module level)
- Intended Learning Outcomes
- Student engagement
- Assessment, marking, feedback and moderation
- Generative AI
For further information, contact the Teaching Expertise Development team at TED@bathspa.ac.uk.