For learners
Medr puts learners at the heart of the system. If you’re a learner, you could be:
- a sixth form pupil at a secondary school
- a student at college or university
- an apprentice studying through a college or or training provider
- taking a course with Adult Learning Wales or your local council
How does Medr engage with learners?
We make sure that your university, college, training provider, sixth form or whoever you learn with is providing you with a high quality education, engaging with all learners and listening to your voice, and is accountable for the funding that we provide to them.
We want to ensure that we also hear your voice, and so will be setting up different mechanisms to engage with learner representatives.
We work closely with the National Union of Students (NUS) Cymru; the NUS Cymru President is an Associate Member of our Board and we have agreed Principles of Joint Working with NUS to make sure that we always find the best way to work together.
We meet with learner representative bodies (like your students’ unions, or Learner Executives) a few times a year to discuss the key issues for learners. We also ask about the relationship between your provider and learner representatives. This information is fed back into Medr to other teams and into our Provider Risk Review.
Learner Voice Forum
Over the coming years, we’ll be building up different mechanisms to engage with a wide variety of learners and understand how we can demonstrate to learners what their feedback has changed in Medr.
We’ll be building this with learners to make sure it reflects their needs across the whole tertiary sector, and has a real impact on our decisions.
National Student Survey (NSS)
Medr co-owns the National Student Survey with the other UK funding and regulatory bodies. The NSS is a survey for final year undergraduate students in higher education.
A series of questions is asked to each final year student, and the outcomes are used by Medr to follow up with universities on any poor outcomes they receive. We typically ask for action plans from the universities if a question outcome is too low or a subject outcome is too low.
If you’re interested in learning more about the NSS, please have a look at our further NSS information.
Other sources of information that may be of interest to learners:
NUS Cymru: represents interests of students in university and colleges, and apprentices, nationally across Wales.
Careers Wales: sixth form, apprenticeship, and college opportunities in Wales.
Working Wales: free and impartial careers advice and guidance for people aged 16 or above.
Study in Wales: higher and further education in Wales.
Office of the Independent Adjudicator: an independent body that reviews complaints about higher education
Discover Uni: comparing information and data on undergraduate higher education courses across the UK.
Prospects: postgraduate study opportunities across the UK.
Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol: opportunities to study through the medium of Welsh.
Taith: international exchange opportunities for learners in Wales.
UK Council for International Student Affairs: information and advice for international students.
Student Finance Wales: Funding for further education learners, undergraduates, and postgraduates.
Educators Wales: teacher training qualifications.
Guidance to Medr’s incentives to train to teach in further education.
The Welsh Government website for incentives to train to teach in schools.
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