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In many countries including Denmark the solution has been to include student representatives on various councils and panels. However five years ago the Danish Accreditation Institution (AI) outlined a vision for a more long-term dynamic relationship with students to enhance student involvement throughout our external QA activities. This vision gave birth to STAR the Students' Accreditation Council a network for Danish student organisations facilitated by AI.
The network provides a forum for dialogue with students about developing and ensuring the quality of education from a student perspective. Based on our positive experience of student involvement in external QA activities AI invites participants to discuss opportunities and challenges in working with student involvement as a QA agency.
This paper was presented at EQAF and reflects the views of the named authors only.
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