If I had wifi access on my train journey in and out of London I would probably have put this blog post together much sooner, but I don’t, no idea why, other First Great Western trains seem to, but oh well, my enormous season ticket price is obviously not enough to provide that kind of [...]
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 [...]
I’ve had a busy time since I got back from a lovely holiday in Tuscany (www.psmartino.it). On my first day back at work I went to the Apple offices to hear about CampusM, an application designed to give students access to campus services through their smartphones (iPhones and the like!) and a new version/product for [...]
HEFCE today said that under a revised method of quality assurance being developed, providing authoritative and accessible information will be key to the quality assurance process, and a separate consultation will be launched on the types of information that institutions will be required to provide for prospective students. As you can imagine, this ties in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is a short week, but it doesn’t mean that I’ve not been busy, I’ve actually been a really busy bee. First of all, with my policy hat pulled right down over my ears (so that I can concentrate), I’ve been trying to take a long-term view of Higher Education for the purposes of writing [...]
Just been reading the 2nd call for proposals from the Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance, which summarises the key themes in the 80 responses received to the 1st call. I was much cheered to find ‘Information requirements’ among those key themes, as you might imagine! Lord Browne reports (my emphasis): There was [...]
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 [...]
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