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 > tick! And ongoing.
• Liaison with external partners > tick! And also ongoing.
• Roundtable event > nearly tick! Couting down to 16 June 2010.
• Development of IT package > half tick! In progress.
• Dissemination > half tick! Planning in progress.

A lot of what I’ve been doing over the last 6 months is liaison with internal and external partners: the HEA, the QAA, Opinionpanel, UKCISA, HEPI, SPA, NUS, Goldsmiths, UCAS, Durham University, the National Student Forum, Career Academies UK, Oakleigh, The Russell Group, AMOSSHE, ICG HE Community, Connect South West, CIHE, HEFCE and UUK; to name a few acronyms/’interested parties’!

I’ve also been ‘mystery shopping’ on the internet, checking out information sites for people considering applying to university. Members of the ICG HE Community have been sending me links to websites they recommend, and I’d welcome any suggestions from anyone out there in the blogoverse!

Dissemination planning is well in hand, the launch of the proposed online resource and associated report is due to happen at the annual Student Experience conference in November, and I’m also presenting at a UCAS Research Forum in October, plus I have other irons in the fire too.

Well, I’d better go off and turn this blogpost into a report or two then hadn’t I?