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Inclusion Includes Discomfort
Published on Jun 14, 2021 / No Comments
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Inclusion Includes Discomfort Over the last year, projects I’ve been working on with universities and colleges include a focus on inclusive practice, inclusive curriculum and whole institution approaches to well-being. Although inclusive curriculum was an expectation included in the 2017 DfE publication, ‘Inclusive teaching and learning in higher education as a route to excellence ’ […]
Retrofitting dynamism
Published on May 18, 2021 / No Comments
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Retrofitting dynamism I feel fairly safe in making the generalisation that the pandemic has created a period of swift change for us all. We have had to negotiate so much loss and illness in our families, friends and communities. We have had to adapt overnight to new restrictions, new ways of working, what we are […]
Learning from AUA Consulting
Published on Apr 22, 2021 / No Comments
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Learning from AUA Consulting In 2019 AUA launched a consulting practice AUA Consulting as a new strand in our range of activities in the HE sector. What have we learned as an association from this new initiative over the last two years? How is AUA Consulting benefiting AUA, our members and the wider sector? In […]
What are students ‘buying’ from universities?
Published on Mar 23, 2021 / No Comments
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What are students ‘buying’ from universities? I was talking to a friend who works for British Airways recently, and commiserating with him over the disruption that Covid caused to his industry and the stress he must have faced in his job. ‘Actually’, he said, ‘you had it worse in HE because we had contingency plans. […]
Professional Services – Future-Fit?
Published on Mar 3, 2021 / No Comments
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Professional Services – Future-Fit? It’s now more than a year since the pandemic first hit the UK. It is hard to remember life and work in our institutions pre-COVID-19. 2021 will be potentially even more challenging for HE. As Steve Smith highlighted in another AUA blog the rapid changes in methods of delivery and ways […]
Just a Minute…….Governance Practice in the New Normal
Published on Feb 16, 2021 / No Comments
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Just a Minute…….Governance Practice in the New Normal Being ever the optimist, I am making plans for returning to face to face meetings sooner rather than later and, in relation to committee administration, a few positives have emerged as a result of the global pandemic. I am no longer overly worried about anyone requesting remote […]
Unlocking your data capability
Published on Feb 1, 2021 / No Comments
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Unlocking your data capability If you put “data” into Google you get 8.97 billion results. For comparison, “Covid” gets 6.55 billion, “Trump” gets 1.78 billion, “Brexit” gets 182 million. There are many reasons why data has become big, not least of which is the development of technologies and protocols to capture data easily, store vast […]
Wellbeing: Rhetoric or Reality?
Published on Jan 14, 2021 / No Comments
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Something’s been nagging at me through the holiday season. I’ve been pondering a theme in the corporate messaging that seemed to emerge in the final few weeks of the year, shared with me by a number of my coachees (from within and beyond the HE sector) and observed by others on a couple of social […]
Admissions in the headlines – again
Published on Dec 4, 2020 / 1 Comment
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Admissions in the headlines – again University admissions usually hits the headlines when something goes wrong, either individually or collectively at a university or national level. A case in point being the fiasco of August 2020, when universities made acceptance decision for home undergraduates on the basis of the grades provided by the examinations boards, […]
Business Continuity planning redefined – will you be resilient in the next crisis?
Published on Nov 25, 2020 / 1 Comment
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Business Continuity planning redefined – will you be resilient in the next crisis? When the first wave of COVID-19 hit you probably did have ‘pandemic’ somewhere on your business continuity plan. You may well have reached for that plan – or perhaps your hastily established crisis management team just got on with it. Sadly, the […]