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.
Uniwise | Exhibitor Blog
Published on Feb 5, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
An Unexpected Benefit of Digital Assessment Nowadays one of the largest issues facing our planet is the overuse of the earth’s resources – one of the leading causes of rapid climate change – and it is heavily debated who should act on creating a more sustainable world. How can your institution take responsibility in the […]
Student experience events and conferences in 2020
Published on Feb 4, 2020 by David Gilani & Josh Gulrajani / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
Student experience events and conferences in 2020 One aim of the AUA’s Student Experience and Engagement network is to make it easier for those working in this field to seek and share best practice. To help achieve this, we’ve compiled a list of related events and conferences that are taking place in the next few months. If […]
The Future of HE Professionals | Survey
Published on Feb 4, 2020 by Chris Ince / 1 Comment
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Strategy Development , AHEP Updates , Future HE Professionals
The Future of HE Professionals – we need your views Chris Ince | AUA Chair | Secretary and Registrar | London Metropolitan University The AUA has a heritage of almost 60 years connecting and developing higher education professionals in support of the UK higher education sector. Looking ahead to the next phase in our development, […]
Seconded | AUA Quick reads
Published on Feb 3, 2020 by Helen Matthews / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
Seconded | AUA Quick reads Helen Matthews | Head of Academic Policy and Quality Assurance | UCL I am the business lead for a significant part of a major project to transform UCL’s student system. When my boss first suggested that for the next phase of our project, what we really needed was to second […]
Moving into the Matrix | AUA Quick reads
Published on Feb 3, 2020 by Adrian Lee / No Comments
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Moving into the Matrix | AUA Quick reads Adrian Lee | Quality Support Officer | University of York Over the last two years my team and I have been introduced to a new organisational structure and ways of working. Through trial and error we found good ways to collaborate and I’m really looking forward to […]
All Party Parliamentary Group on Students
Published on Jan 30, 2020 by Sam Bayley / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
Tuesday 28 January 2020 | House of Lords Alongside my Board colleague Mark Hollingsworth I was delighted to have the chance to attend the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Students at the House of Lords. In Brexit week, the building was surprisingly serene, with the peace only shattered by occasional school groups passing through. […]
What exactly is the AUA CPD Framework and how can it help me?
Published on Jan 29, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates , PgCert , Previous AUA CPD Framework , Professional Development
What exactly is the AUA CPD Framework and how can it help me? Whether you’re new to the AUA or a longstanding member; the likelihood is you’ll have heard the AUA CPD Framework mentioned in one form or another. From our professional development events programme to our member-led networks and our publications, the AUA CPD […]
Attending TEMC 2019 in Adelaide
Published on Jan 13, 2020 by Andrew Unwin / 3 Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates , International conferences , International opportunities
On becoming ‘The Networking Guy’ The tale best begins with a story: A group of PhD students are chatting about their future. One member of the group looks to the others and says, “I’ve got a job”. Some of the others – slightly surprised at this because they’re further through their PhDs – respond with […]
Death of the meeting
Published on Jan 6, 2020 by Amber Bartlett / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
Professional development: knowledge, ideas and tools for furthering a career in higher education and enriching your experience of being a HE professional Most of us know the feeling – you look at your diary for the week and see a sea of meetings. First thought: When am I going to eat lunch?! Second thought: How […]
Sketchnotes | AUA Blog
Published on Dec 9, 2019 by Katrina Swanton / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog
Back in 2015, I was at a conference in Edinburgh in 2015. I was attending a breakout session and was sitting waiting for the first speaker, conference-centre branded notepad and pen in hand. I had n...