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.
Celebrating our 2020 PgCert Graduates
Published on Apr 6, 2020 / 1 Comment
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates , PgCert
Celebrating our 2020 PgCert Graduates One of the highlights of the AUA Annual Conference is the award ceremony when we congratulate and celebrate the achievement of AUA members who have successfully completed our PgCert programme. This year we were looking forward to applauding a record number of graduates as a result of the change in […]
The AUA (virtual) Office | AUA Blog
Published on Apr 1, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates , Work and Covid
The AUA (virtual) Office Jordan Paterson | Administration Assistant | The AUA I’m a creature of habit, so my working environment changing completely for the foreseeable future was going to be difficult for me. I usually walk to work, so I’ve had to figure out other ways to get the daily exercise I’d normally get. […]
Central versus local: Getting the right staff in the right places | AUA Blog
Published on Mar 31, 2020 by Thea Gibbs / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
Central versus local: Getting the right staff in the right places Thea Gibbs | Director of Operations | Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations My university has a preference for centralised professional services, combined with a drive for consistency and standardisation across different functions. Sometimes this can be at odds with local needs of […]
AUA 2020 Annual Awards Shortlist
Published on Mar 26, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
The 2020 Annual AUA Awards Nominees As most of you will know, the AUA Annual Awards are usually announced and presented as part of our Gala Dinner at our Annual Conference & Exhibition. As this has been postponed this year, we’ve had to rethink how we will recognise and acknowledge the hard work of our members and […]
Managing Self and Personal Skills
Published on Mar 26, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates , PgCert , Previous AUA CPD Framework , Professional Development
Managing Self and Personal Skills Managing self and personal skills is a behaviour that is about taking control of and responsibility for your own professional development. In many ways, all of the activities offered by the AUA relate to this behaviour, as they all give you the chance to develop yourself outside of the opportunities […]
AUA Study Tour: Japan
Published on Mar 24, 2020 by Liz Turner | Chiara Singh | Oliver Cooper | Laura Johnson | Chris Cooper / 2 Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates , International opportunities , Study Tours
Liz Turner | Chiara Singh | Oliver Cooper | Laura Johnson | Chris Cooper Introduction Japan also known as Nihon or ‘the land of the rising sun’, is an inspiring country with a legendary work ethic and a very different Higher Education Sector. From the beautiful art of becoming a geisha to the ancient Shinto […]
Day two | Navigating the new normal
Published on Mar 20, 2020 by Jane Reid / 1 Comment
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates , Work and Covid
Day two | Navigating the new normal Jane Reid | Teaching and Learning Manager (PgCert) | The AUA In my current job, I rarely work from home despite my role working on a blended learning programme being quite suited to it. I enjoy working in an open plan office, I enjoy the variety of our […]
Lucidity Solutions – Exhibitor Blog
Published on Mar 12, 2020 by Dr Jo Edwards / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of reading university strategic plans, you might have been tempted to hang your head in despair! They often sound very similar, have too many – or too few – ways to evaluate progress, and are divorced from what really happens in the institution. In response, we’ve developed an approach […]
Insights into geographical inequalities in higher education participation
Published on Mar 11, 2020 by Neil Raven / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
Insights into geographical inequalities in higher education participation | AUA Blog Geographical variations in rates of higher education [HE] participation have long been recognised. In 1997, the Dearing Report referenced research by the Higher Education Funding Council for England which showed that ‘the probability of a young person entering a higher education institution is strongly […]
The fourth North Wales and North West Regional Conference: Achieving success | AUA Blog
Published on Mar 10, 2020 by Simon Vaukins / No Comments
Category: AHEP Blog , AHEP Updates
The fourth North Wales and North West Regional Conference: Achieving success At 10:30am on Friday January 17th, 2020 at Edge Hill University, over 100 Professional Services Staff from across North Wales and the North West were captivated for one hour by Andy Grant, ex-Royal Marine turned motivational speaker and fastest single leg amputee in the […]