Learner Voice Strategy QS
Learner Voice Strategy
1. The Learner Voice
The Leaner Voice is the culmination of many conversations and events and activities and ideas – We’ve listened, and we hope this helps recognise Learner’s as valued and valuable co-producers of their training. We believe this supports our aim to build a fairer training system for Learners; one that is inclusive, accessible, and successful.
The Learner Voice is purposefully founded on sector-shaped principles to guide and inform quality Learner Voice in Datalaw – with a practical focus on ensuring practice is sustainable, as much as it is meaningful.
We have got better at sharing good practice between us, supporting each other with helpful tips on what to do and how to do it, but importantly adds the part of the story about why the Learner Voice is so important.
We want the Learner Voice to be at the heart of training, and we want it to stay there.
The Learner Voice supports Learners and Datalaw to work in partnership to find better ways of improving training together.
Learners are wonderfully diverse, Datalaw and Learners aim to work together to find new and innovative ways of engaging.
The Learner Voice provides the conversation you can hold internally, or with other Stakeholders to explore, articulate and develop the impact of your Learner Voice activity.
There is a lot of amazing practice taking place, but we know that it is not consistent, and we’re not really sure how to measure it. We hope the Learner Voice equally shines a spotlight on the value of Learner’s voice as well as provide a mechanism to record the evidence and demonstrate the impact Learners are having.
2. Partnership
This is about having an equal and valued partnership between Learners and Datalaw to co-create a quality education. Without a partnership approach, we are not going to be successful at any part of developing the Learner’s voice.
It takes a team; we know that one person on their own cannot be responsible for all of this. It’s also important to make sure our partnerships are genuine and equal – no matter whom that partnership is made up of.
3. Empowered Learners
Empowering Learners is what the Learner’s voice is all about. We want Learners to discover and use their voice effectively.
4. Inclusive
We believe that all Learners should be actively involved in shaping their training, and sometimes this will mean we need to look honestly at our activity and challenge under-representation and limited or no-engagement with particular groups of Learner’s.
We want all Learners to feel empowered and know they have a voice on their training – and we need to work proactively to find ways to support them to use their voice effectively.
5. Embedded and Valued
Where there are meaningful Learner engagement and partnership throughout Datalaw. It is important for everyone to understand what the Learner Voice is, what it can achieve and how valuable it is.
We know we have to work on this together, and we all agree on this about empowering Learner and getting their voice heard. We want our practice to be inclusive and there to be an organisational-wide understanding and engagement with the Learner Voice.
Purposefully, we have left the “how we’re going to do all of this” principle to the end because we need to know what we want to and why we want to do it before we look at the how.
6. Being Invested, Strategic and Sustainable
This is the strategy and investment in Learner’s voice to ensure it is long lasting.
It needs resources; we want there to be space to come up with new ideas and share the existing good ideas so that we keep hold of the talent, stay fresh and adapt to whatever the sector changes next, and still meaningfully give Learner’s a voice on how their training should be delivered.
Learner’s experience, ideas and voice are important; it matters.
Learners need the opportunity to be able to make a difference in our training, and we need to make sure that all Learners are included.
This is how we start putting Learners back at the heart of training.
7. Providing Feedback
Learners are welcomed at every opportunity to provide feedback, this can be obtained by:
- Verbal feedback to Coach/Trainer
- Session reflections documents
- End of workshop feedback surveys
- Forums
- Group workshop activities
- Emailing apprenticeships@datalaw.org
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Reviewed Date |
31st March 2022 |
Next Review Due Date |
31st March 2025 |
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Reviewed by |
Cath Heys Head of Quality |
Signature |
Cath Heys |