I recently attended another acronym-laden meeting: HEPISG (Higher Education Public Information Steering Group) formerly the TQI/NSS Steering Group, to tell them about the Student Expectations of University project and the recent Policy Roundtable: ‘Myth Busting – How can we provide more accessible and accurate public information about universities in order to create realistic and manageable [...]
Six months into the project, time to get out my checklist again and see where we’ve got to, and then write it up as a report for our Board and as another report for JISC’s Chair Committee: Project set up > tick! Desktop research > tick! More to do though. Liaison with 1994 Group members [...]
No, I’m not a politician, I’m not doing the rounds of the country kissing babies, but I am meeting (and greeting) a lot of people in relation to the Student Expectations of University project and canvassing for opinion. Yesterday it was Keith Herrmann at CIHE (that’s another acronym for our collection: the Council for Industry [...]
Myths abound about university, and indeed applying to university: When I worked at UCAS a colleague was running focus groups called From Myth to Reality with students. One of the discussions was about language used, such as Entry Profile, which did not chime with the reality of a course description (which is sort of what [...]
Busy week full of information, advice and guidance, or IAG as acronym-lovers like to call it! I’ve had meetings and phone calls with various people about the JISC project (aimed at informing applicants about university), and I’ve also written the first draft of a speech the Executive Director is giving at an upcoming Information, Advice [...]
I had a busy week last week, talking to people about the online resource for applicants to university: On Tuesday I was in Gloucester meeting with the QAA, but I also talked to the HEA on the phone. On Wednesday I spoke with UKCISA, and met with Opinionpanel (as mentioned in a previous post), Thursday [...]
How exciting, due to heightened security I have to bring photographic ID to gain entry to the Royal Society tomorrow, and an email proving my name is on the list! Talking of lists, I’m putting one together of all the people I should talk to about the project. JISC, obviously since they are funding it, [...]
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