Yesterday saw the long-awaited (by me anyway!) Policy Roundtable event, which took place during Universities Week at Goldsmiths, University of London. It was a very well-attended affair, particularly good given, as the Chair pointed out, that we were South of the river. Around 30 senior representatives from across the higher education sector attended, including policy [...]
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 [...]
Last week and this week have been all about what the future holds, with a whole range of people on tenterhooks: First of all there was the General Election, and the ongoing discussions about a hung parliament > I’m looking forward to finding out who the Minister with responsibility for HE will be, whichever coalition [...]
Isn’t this lovely, I’m sitting at my PC in the kitchen with the door open, while my little pooch is sunning himself on the decking – Spring has sprung! And the project has also taken off in a big way now too. Our Executive Director launched our project in the speech he gave at the [...]
I’m talking to the National Student Forum (NSF) later this month about the sort of online resource that would be most useful to prospective students, and today I have to provide the facilitators with the questions I’m going to ask. Where to start? Well, I suppose I could ask them the question I have asked [...]
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 [...]
A busy day for HE yesterday, as described in a letter to the Times Higher last month, a good day to ‘take over the university’ as all the senior management are likely to be out at: Leadership Foundation’s HE Leadership Summit in London Lord Dearing memorial conference in Nottingham Providing an excellent student experience conference [...]
Networking today, attended The UK International Student Experience conference, gathering intelligence for the JISC-funded project. Quite an apt term actually: I learnt today that many SOAS alumni have been MI5 (and another SOAS alumni David Lammy gave a keynote today too). In fact SOAS’ presentation was particularly interesting, describing what they do to create a [...]
I’m now a fortnight into the new job and am really finding my feet. Happy feet, under my desk at home today! Today, I’m setting my mind to how to gather feedback from people for, and about, the project. So, on today’s ‘to do’ list: write a paper for the Student Experience Policy Group on [...]
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