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HE Governance – challenges and opportunities

Published on Sep 3, 2021 / No Comments

Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates , Governance

HE Governance – challenges and opportunities Reflecting on current and future challenges and opportunities for higher education governance, I’d like to share some thoughts on how the AUA governance consulting team might be able to help.  Our governance consulting team is made up of current and former university secretaries, senior governance professionals and members of […]

Welcoming our new Trustees August 2021

Published on Aug 1, 2021 / No Comments

Category: AHEP Updates

Hello fellow AUA members, Being an AUA Trustee is a great honour but it is also really good fun. I’ve enjoyed the seven (I think!) years I have been involved as a member but also served as Vice-Chair and Chair. As well as helping to lead some of the work of the Association you also […]

Managing Change Open Forum 2021 recordings

Published on Jul 20, 2021 / No Comments

Category: AHEP Updates

Here you can access recordings of sessions from the Managing Change in Higher Education Annual Open Forum 2021, kindly sponsored by EvaSys

Taking closing the loop further at the University of Hull

Published on Jul 14, 2021 / No Comments

Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates

Managing Change in HE Annual Open Forum 2021 Sponsor Blog, by Joanna Carter, Student Insight and Sector Policy Manager, University of Hull on behalf of EvaSys Evaluation and Assessment ______________________________ The increasing emphasis placed on the student voice in higher education is apparent in both the policies and practices of UK higher education institutions. A […]

The AUA turns 60

Published on Jun 24, 2021 / No Comments

Category: AHEP Updates , Diamond jubilee

Revisiting our hot topics part two

Published on Jun 14, 2021 / No Comments

Category: AHEP Updates

In this series, our Trustees share their reflections and summaries of the hot topic sessions they attended at the AUA Annual Conference earlier this year. In this instalment, AUA Trustee Thea Gibbs reflects on ‘Governance in times of change’, whilst AUA Trustee Mark Crittenden discusses his key takeaways from Melanie Gottlieb’s presentation on ‘Defining the […]

Inclusion Includes Discomfort

Published on Jun 14, 2021 / No Comments

Category: AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates

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 ’ […]

Revisiting our hot topics part one

Published on Jun 4, 2021 / No Comments

Category: AHEP Updates

In this series, our Trustees share their reflections and summaries of the hot topic sessions they attended at the AUA Annual Conference earlier this year. In this instalment, AUA Chair Amanda Oliver discusses the hot topic she attended on ‘Enhancing student wellbeing through Social Prescribing’, whilst AUA Trustee Sara Corcoran reflects on Jon Baldwin’s presentation […]

Psychological well-being in this next phase of the pandemic: listening, reflecting, sharing.

Published on May 24, 2021 / No Comments

Category: AHEP Updates

It was a great pleasure to be involved in the AUA awards a few weeks ago and to learn more about the work that AUA members are doing to promote excellence in higher education. It’s clear that a large part of what makes AUA special is the way members support each other in the teams […]

Those who can, do

Published on May 20, 2021 / No Comments

Category: AHEP Updates , Professional Development

I love that Higher Education is full of innovators.  It’s in the blood. I think it comes from working so closely with academic colleagues whose role in life is to ask ‘why’.  I too have gritted my teeth through plenty of meetings where I have been asked that very question one too many times, but […]