AHEP Blog
The AHEP blog is a space to voice opinion, inform, celebrate and share perspectives of working in higher education administration and management today. Each blog will provide thoughts and ideas from three core outlooks:
Policy, me and my role: what is your opinion or experience of the impact of policy on your role or on HE administration and management more widely? What can others learn from you?
Professional development: knowledge, ideas and tools for furthering a career in higher education and enriching your experience of being a HE professional.
My AHEP: covering everything that AHEP has to offer, brought to you from members who have experienced it first-hand.
If you’d like to write a blog for us, please email us at hello@ahep.ac.uk to express your interest.
QSN Symposium 2023 Reflections
Published on Jan 9, 2024 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
Andrea Vili from Global Banking School, reflects on the QSN Symposium, focussed around the evolving uses of data to fuel innovation in HE, whilst avoiding making it overcomplicated.
AACRAO 2022
Published on Jul 13, 2022 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , International conferences , International opportunities
AACRAO Conference 2022 – Oregon, USA | Waterfalls, donuts and inspirational talks It all began with our ideas for sharing something that we are really passionate about with others – for us, this was digital inclusion and hybrid working. Turning these ideas into brief proposals for conference sessions was pretty straight forward. Turning the proposals […]
AUA Consulting – thoughts for the future
Published on Apr 27, 2022 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates
AUA Consulting – thoughts for the future Following my career in higher education as a professional services leader and manager, I was very fortunate to become a Consultant for AUA Consulting in early 2020. This has given me the opportunity to continue to use my experience to bring about improvements to both individual higher education […]
AUA Consulting – reflections on success
Published on Mar 24, 2022 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates
AUA Consulting – reflections on success In my work as a consultant over the past five years, building on a career in higher education stretching over three decades, I’ve had the privilege of working with more than 30 HE institutions and sector bodies, bringing additional capacity, an external perspective and expertise based on long experience […]
Who wants to be a University Board Chair?
Published on Feb 28, 2022 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates
Who wants to be a University Board Chair? Over the last few years I have been involved in the appointment of several governing body chairs. I am pleased to say that they seem to have been successful but that has been in no small part due to there being a candidate, currently serving on the […]
Admissions in the changing HE landscape
Published on Feb 16, 2022 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates
Admissions in the changing HE landscape Having had several years of declining numbers of 18 year olds in the UK population, the trend has now reversed and the number is set to rise for the foreseeable future. Whilst on the face of it this appears to mean that it will become easier to recruit home […]
Kick-starting your professional development
Published on Dec 2, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates , Professional Development
Kick-starting your professional development As the end of the year approaches and a new year is just around the corner, this is often a time for reflection. In HE we continue to be primarily focused on the impact of Covid on our students and institutions. We have been so focused on firefighting over the last […]
From the world of Student Experience and Engagement: Tania Struetzel – University of Greenwich
Published on Oct 20, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , Career stories , From the world of Student Experience and Engagement
From the world of Student Experience and Engagement: Tania Struetzel – University of Greenwich As part of the AUA’s Student Experience and Engagement network, we’re conducting interviews with those who work in the field. A wide variety of roles and teams support the improvement of student experience and engagement within universities. Our interview series helps […]
Professional Services – An Alternative to Benchmarking?
Published on Oct 13, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates
Professional Services – An Alternative to Benchmarking? Many of us will have pondered the question of what level of staffing is needed to carry out professional services tasks in our university. This may well have led to trying some form of benchmarking to determine how our university compares with others. Benchmarking can range from the […]
Time for some quiet leadership?
Published on Sep 24, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Consulting , AHEP Updates , Development Monthly - December 2021
Time for some quiet leadership? The people-management challenges facing university leaders and managers are enormous, from motivating and supporting teams who now work from home for at least some of the time, to dealing with the mental health challenges that the impact of Covid-19 has had on so many people (as explored in earlier AUA […]