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.
BoardEffect | Exhibitor Blog
Published on Feb 19, 2020 by Edward Rees / No Comments
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The Importance of Good Governance in Higher Education Good governance is especially important in higher education, because a university is, in many ways, a much more complicated organisation than a business, and governance in higher education must provide a framework for a truly variegated group of stakeholders. Nonetheless, the basic principles of corporate governance find […]
The most versatile thing in the world? Potatoes, wood, gin, AUA Creating Conversations… | AUA Quick reads
Published on Feb 17, 2020 by Michael Monaghan / No Comments
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The most versatile thing in the world? Potatoes, wood, gin, AUA Creating Conversations… Michael Monaghan FAUA | Leadership and Development Adviser | Liverpool John Moores University The question I wish I got most from the HE managers I work with is ‘Michael what’s it like to be the AUA’s only two-time winner of the Member […]
Developing a whole institution approach towards an inclusive student welcome, induction and transitions experience in partnership with Kent Union | AUA Quick reads
Published on Feb 17, 2020 by Melissa Mulhall / No Comments
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Developing a whole institution approach towards an inclusive student welcome, induction and transitions experience in partnership with Kent Union Melissa Mulhall MAUA | Assistant Director, Student Engagement and Experience | University of Kent Collaborating for Success – now that is an approach that really resonates with me, both personally and professionally. I found that taking […]
Manaakitanga Putaiao | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Feb 17, 2020 by Linda Thompson & Glenda Haines / No Comments
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Manaakitanga Putaiao – Increasing staff engagement through collaboration and a culture of care Linda Thompson | Director of Faculty Operations, Faculty of Science | University of Auckland, New Zealand Glenda Haines | Student Academic Services and Engagement Manager, Faculty of Science | University of Auckland, New Zealand Last year some of our staff organised an […]
University of Bath School of Management | Exhibitor Blog | AUA
Published on Feb 13, 2020 by Dan Davies / No Comments
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Look out! Dan Davies | Director of Higher Education Management Programmes | University of Bath Are we really so self-centred? ‘The problem with universities is that they are essentially inward-looking institutions. They’re only in it for what they can get out of it.’ This was the somewhat cynical assessment of a friend of mine, the […]
Inspera | Exhibitor Blog | AUA
Published on Feb 12, 2020 / No Comments
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The benefits of digital exams for the university administration Debating the nuances of EdTech is, as ever, a hot topic among policymakers and researchers’ communities; and as in almost every high-stakes debate, the views are polarised or still undecided. Therefore, the nature of the impact of technology in the examination processes is something that is […]
Problem Solving | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Feb 10, 2020 by Roseanna Cross / No Comments
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Problem Solving | AUA Quick Reads Roseanna Cross MAUA | School Manager, Cellular & Molecular Medicine | University of Bristol Have you ever wondered how on earth to solve a problem? Have you ever thought that there must be a better way of working out what to do and that there must be ways that […]
Empowering teams and promoting success through continuous improvement | AUA Quick reads
Published on Feb 10, 2020 by Laura Roper / No Comments
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Empowering teams and promoting success through continuous improvement | AUA Quick reads Laura Roper FAUA | Accreditations Officer | University of Bournemouth “In every job that must be done there is an element of fun” as quoted by the fabulous Mary Poppins and I could not agree more. We spend a third of our lives […]
Many-Headed Monsters | AUA Quick Reads
Published on Feb 10, 2020 by Rachel Van Krimpen & Susanna Ison / No Comments
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Many-Headed Monsters (or Fantastic Beasts and how to Fund Them) Cutting through the complexity of multi-institutional partnerships to deliver excellence in doctoral training Rachel Van Krimpen AMAUA | Doctoral Training Partnership Manager | University of Nottingham Susanna Ison | Midlands4Cities Manager | University of Nottingham Complicated things, those many-headed monsters. If you take the time […]
EAB | Exhibitor Blog
Published on Feb 6, 2020 / No Comments
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Ask any university’s leadership team about their strategy for the future, and they will rattle off the same high-impact practices: experiential learning, flipped classrooms, digital-infused curriculum, and the like. All of these approaches are designed to take advantage of what feels like a transformational moment in the sector. But how does an institution differentiate in […]