Enhancing impact through collaboration, applied practice and sector-wide exchange
Fredrick Agboma
Senior Lecturer in Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
Liverpool John Moores University
Membership impact highlights
- Provides collaborative spaces and enhancement-led frameworks that help turn educational ideas into practical, scalable interventions.
- Strengthens my teaching by supporting applied, reflective and challenge-led approaches that connect theory with real-world practice.
- Enhances my research through opportunities for collaborative inquiry, knowledge exchange and sector-wide engagement.
- Supports the co-creation of practical resources that benefit learners, practitioners and institutions across the sector.
- Helps bridge the gap between conceptual ambitions-such as employability, social impact and enterprise-and the design of activities that deliver meaningful outcomes.
Fredrick Agboma , As a Senior Lecturer in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at Liverpool John Moores University, my work focuses on helping students connect academic theory with real-world organisational and societal issues.
Valuable resources that shape teaching and research
One of the QAA resources I have found particularly valuable is the Collaborative Enhancement Project (CEP) model, especially its focus on partnership working, enhancement-led practice and the co‑creation of practical outputs that can be used across the sector. I have also valued QAA’s communities of practice and enhancement-oriented resources, as they create opportunities to engage with colleagues across institutions, test ideas and reflect on what effective practice looks like in real educational settings. These resources have been important for both my teaching and research. They have helped me design learning experiences that are applied, socially relevant and capable of connecting academic theory with real-world practice.
Addressing the challenge of turning ideas into practice
QAA support has been especially helpful in addressing the challenge of moving from good educational ideas to practical and scalable interventions that make a meaningful difference. In higher education, it is often difficult to bridge the gap between conceptual ambitions—such as employability, social impact, enterprise or global engagement—and the design of learning, teaching and enhancement activities that deliver those outcomes in practice. QAA support has helped address that gap by providing frameworks, collaborative spaces and a structured enhancement process through which ideas can be developed into something tangible and usable.
Applying enhancement to real-world learning
A sector-wide culture of enhancement
What I value most about QAA’s support is its ability to create the conditions for collaboration, reflection and enhancement across the sector. Its greatest strength lies in helping institutions move beyond a narrow compliance‑oriented mindset towards developmental practice that improves teaching, learning and broader impact. The benefit of QAA support has not been limited to one project. It has contributed to how I think about curriculum design, student engagement, work‑based learning and the role of higher education in addressing complex social and economic challenges. That combination of enhancement, relevance and sector‑wide exchange makes QAA support meaningful.
