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 [...]
As I mentioned last Friday, one of the conferences I attended last week was Meeting Student Expectations – Academic progress, reputation and complaints. An extremely interesting conference with sessions on student satisfaction, improving student information, and communication and reputation. All of course very relevant to the Student Expectations of University JISC-funded project! You can watch [...]
Following on from last week’s post, about what the future holds, at the moment the future is looking rosy, well actually red, UCAS red, but that’s not a well-known expression is it. Following a late night in London, for the Board meeting and working dinner, which meant I only got home at midnight, I went [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well, the sun is shining here in Cheltenham, once again I’m sitting at my PC, working from home, with the door open and my dog is sunning himself on the deck. > Summer system go! I’m even more full of the ‘joys of “summer”‘ as I have also just passed my probation period, so the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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