In this session we welcomed first time visitors to the AUA conference. This was an ideal opportunity to network with other newcomers, see what’s in store for the two days, and find out how to get the most out of the conference.
Learn more about differing models of two year degrees
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Discuss and debate some of the wider issues around the model
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Think about the implications of the structure on your own job
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Consider which of the professional behaviours you think are most needed in the structure
The University of Oxford recently piloted Lean as a structured, participative approach to change. Lean was chosen because its foci on customer value and reduction of waste matched the Academic Administration Division’s (AAD) requirement for a methodology which would engage staff and release resource capacity by reducing wasted effort. SUMS Consulting was asked to introduce Lean concepts to the Academic Administration Division at the University and to facilitate a number of Lean workshops focusing on processes related to student fees and funding. This presentation will bring together three perspectives on Lean. Firstly, the academic background to the methodology and how it has been used in other sectors. Secondly, the Oxford experience and how it has changed Oxford’s approach to change in its academic administration. Lastly, a wider sector experience of Lean and similar methodologies.
Professor Helen Marshall, Vice-Chancellor of University of Salford, delivered a keynote focused on delivering a better support of widening participation in Universities. Current agendas that seek to promote “widening participation” and the development of skilled as well as knowledgeable graduates mean that universities need to take a step back to re-examine and challenge traditional curriculum design and delivery models. This paper explores the current landscape and requirements such as modularisation, credits, learning outcomes and levels and how those support and/or constrain curriculum design and delivery that engages and develops students who come from backgrounds that are mixed in terms of previous educational experience, socio-economic class and cultural heritage. The central theme is to challenge perceptions that certain approaches to curriculum design and delivery are not possible because of these requirements.
Learn more about differing models of two year degrees
•
Discuss and debate some of the wider issues around the model
•
Think about the implications of the structure on your own job
•
Consider which of the professional behaviours you think are most needed in the structure
The University of Oxford recently piloted Lean as a structured, participative approach to change. Lean was chosen because its foci on customer value and reduction of waste matched the Academic Administration Division’s (AAD) requirement for a methodology which would engage staff and release resource capacity by reducing wasted effort. SUMS Consulting was asked to introduce Lean concepts to the Academic Administration Division at the University and to facilitate a number of Lean workshops focusing on processes related to student fees and funding. This presentation will bring together three perspectives on Lean. Firstly, the academic background to the methodology and how it has been used in other sectors. Secondly, the Oxford experience and how it has changed Oxford’s approach to change in its academic administration. Lastly, a wider sector experience of Lean and similar methodologies.
Professor Helen Marshall, Vice-Chancellor of University of Salford, delivered a keynote focused on delivering a better support of widening participation in Universities. Current agendas that seek to promote “widening participation” and the development of skilled as well as knowledgeable graduates mean that universities need to take a step back to re-examine and challenge traditional curriculum design and delivery models. This paper explores the current landscape and requirements such as modularisation, credits, learning outcomes and levels and how those support and/or constrain curriculum design and delivery that engages and develops students who come from backgrounds that are mixed in terms of previous educational experience, socio-economic class and cultural heritage. The central theme is to challenge perceptions that certain approaches to curriculum design and delivery are not possible because of these requirements.
This session provides an insight into how the AUA’s CPD Framework can be applied to maximum effect at team level. You will have the opportunity to consider case studies and to share ideas, and practical tips and exercises for developing your team that you can adapt to suit your team’s needs.
-Overview of St Andrews and the case for change
-The wider context of improvement
Changing the business
Definitions and methods
-Daily kaizen
Kaizen theory
Daily kaizen tools
Visual management
Daily huddle
Universe of work
In just 6 months, you can enjoy a life-changing experience by accelerating your career advancement or embarking on your dream profession. Furthermore, you will gain industry-specific expertise and improve your job performance and personal growth. Find out more at www.aventis.edu.sg
This session provides an insight into how the AUA’s CPD Framework can be applied to maximum effect at team level. You will have the opportunity to consider case studies and to share ideas, and practical tips and exercises for developing your team that you can adapt to suit your team’s needs.
-Overview of St Andrews and the case for change
-The wider context of improvement
Changing the business
Definitions and methods
-Daily kaizen
Kaizen theory
Daily kaizen tools
Visual management
Daily huddle
Universe of work
In just 6 months, you can enjoy a life-changing experience by accelerating your career advancement or embarking on your dream profession. Furthermore, you will gain industry-specific expertise and improve your job performance and personal growth. Find out more at www.aventis.edu.sg
The Aventis Certified Professional Trainer program is designed to equip participants with the tools, strategies, and techniques required for professionals seeking to enhance their skills set. This certification program serves as an ideal framework for participants preparing and developing their teaching or training role or individuals who are already in training and wish to enhance and upgrade their skills set and knowledge. Besides emphasising on key training skills set, the program aims to equip participants with the know-how to design and incorporates the Professional Trainer Toolkit to deliver competency based training using time tested methodology.
Aventis School of Management is a leading Graduate School based in Singapore offering an executive suite of MBA , Graduate Diploma and Executive education programs.
Visit www.aventis.edu.sg
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Business Innovation& CSR Masterclass | Dubai, Jan 31-Feb 2Wayne Dunn
I will be running a 3-day Masterclass in Business Innovation & CSR from January 31 to February 2nd 2016 in Dubai, UAE. The program is produced by 360 International but they have given us permission to offer CSR Training Institute Alumni and network members a limited time discount.
You are personally invited to register at a discounted rate (http://goo.gl/forms/CBI2wj2aYx here to register). You may share this invitation with others in your organization.
The program will bring together a global group leaders and practitioners for an intense experiential learning session. The masterclass will feature a pragmatic integration of theory and practice using lectures, videos, groupwork, case studies, role-playing scenarios. Innovation, value-creation and strategy considerations permeate the program.
Participants will leave with a set of tools and content knowledge that will enable them to immediately be more effective in their organizations and activities. A brochure on the program is attached along with background information on the CSR Training Institute.
Please contact me directly (wayne@csrtraininginstitute) if you have any questions or wish any additional information
A summary of my career development workshop for bioscience PhD students and postdocs (May 2018) including skills analysis, job seeking, CVs and interview technique.
1. National context –are we making our mark?
• The UK National Strategy and Target for Outward Student Mobility
•International context: mobility rates by country
2. Research:
• A picture of participation (who, what, where?)
• Widening participation in outward mobility (findings and current practice)
• The value of outward student mobility: UUKi’sGone International cohort studies
3. The Go International: Stand Out campaign
• activities and how to get involved
The lessons learnt through a critical investigation of professional development and career progression for professional services staff and its significance to Strategic HRM: A Case Study at Keele University
Cross departmental effectiveness to improve the student experience: case study – Louise Medlam (Academic Registrar) and Lynn Jones (Deputy Academic Register) – Glyndwr University
AUA Mark of Excellence information session from Amanda Shilton Godwin AUA – including LJMU’s reflections of going for the MoE; John Trantom (Leadership and Development Adviser), LJMU
Professor Brad Mackay explores some of the critical uncertainties posed by Brexit and how they might shape the international competitiveness of the sector in the future.
Dr O’Halloran shares with the network a range of initiatives at the University of Strathclyde, designed to enhance the experience of under-represented groups and demonstrate the University’s core values.
Whether it’s for a job interview, in a team meeting or at the AUA conference, the chances are that you will need to give a presentation at some point in your career. Finding the presentation style that suits you will help you go from death by PowerPoint to creating engaging and memorable sessions for any audience.
Chance and fate in making the connections that ignite the creative spark. At one time or other we all will call on inspiration, support and/or ‘reality checks’ from others with a different perspective, or perhaps wish we had done in hindsight! Some thoughts on how this can happen and how we might help develop an environment to increase the chances of it happening.
We have all been told about the benefits of building a network of contacts, but what can you do if you don’t like ‘networking’? In this talk I will show how I used social media and external organisations to build up my list of contacts and gain a good reputation in HE for my work in data management.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
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An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
4. 12:45- 13:00 You and the AUA
13:00- 13:45 You and your profession & your career
13:35-14:00 How to get the most out of the conference
Programme
Overview
AUANewcomersSession
5. Understand key elements and benefits of the AUA
Make the most of your membership
Think about how AUA can help to advance your
career
Play your part in a developing profession
Aims
This session willhelp you to:
AUANewcomersSession
7. Talk to you neighbour and find out why they joined
the AUA.
Have they joined for the same reason(s) you have?
What do you hope to gain from your membership?
We’ll ask you to share your ideas in a few minutes.
You and the AUA
Activity 1
AUANewcomersSession
8. Around 3,500 members (AUA on twitter now has over 2,813
followers)
Covers the UK and Ireland
Present in most UK universities and HE colleges as well as in
key decision-making bodies in HE
Originally formed in 1961, but current incarnation dates from
1993 with merger of the Conference of University
Administrators (CUA) and Association of Polytechnic
Administrators (APA)
Run by and for its members
What is the AUA?
AUANewcomersSession
9. Whatis the AUA?
AUANewcomersSession
Charitable Object:
“The Object of the Association is toadvanceandassistinthe
furtheringofeducation by fostering sound methods of leadership,
management and administration in further and higher education by
education, training, and other means.”
11. Scotland
Ireland
Yorkshire & North East
North Wales & North West
Midlands
South Wales & South West
South
Anglia & London
Whatis the AUA?
Geographic Networks
AUANewcomersSession
12. Whatis the AUA?
ThemedNetworks
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Applicant Experience (with SPA)
Departmental Administrators
Equality and Diversity International HE
Managing ChangeinHE
Organisational Development
Quality Practitioners
Partnerships
Finance
Private Providers
HEin FE
13. the continuous development of their own and others'
professional knowledge, skills and practices;
actively championing equality of educational and
professional opportunity;
the advancement of higher education through the robust
application of professional knowledge, skills and practices;
the highest standards of fair, ethical and transparent
professional behaviour.
Your commitment – AUA
valuesAUAmembers areindividually and collectively committed to:
AUANewcomersSession
14. For professional development
To keep yourself informed
To network with colleagues (geographically and
thematically)
To share (as well as learn) from good practice
To develop the profession
Events, themed networks, publications: Perspectives, PG
Certificate, Newslink, Good Practice Guides, and much
more…
Why Join?
Why Stay in the AUA?
AUANewcomersSession
15. AUAMember Progression
AUANewcomersSession
Member
• MAUA
• Workconnectedwith
highereducationin the
UK orIreland
AccreditedMember
• AMAUA
• Level 4 Qualification
• 25 hours CPDin 2 years
• Reflective statement
• 1 reference
• Lasts for5 years
Fellow
• FAUA
• Level 4 Qualification
• 30 hours CPDin 3 years
• Reflective statement
• Development ofothers
• 2 references
• Lasts for5 years
17. Did you chose your career or did you fall into it?
Talk to you neighbour again and discuss those
areas where you would like to prepare yourself for
future career opportunities: these areas could be
behaviours or knowledge.
How can the AUA help you prepare?
Be prepared to share in five minutes time!
You and your profession
Activity 1
AUANewcomersSession
18. Are you professional in your work?
Are you a professional?
Are you part of a global profession?
Did you select this profession by choice?
What collective term for professional staff do you
identify with?
* Adapted from an exercise devised by Dr Kenton Lewis
You and your profession
Straw Poll
AUANewcomersSession
Simple show of hands*
19. Are you contributing to the core academic purposes
of your institution in your work?
-Student learning outcomes?
-Research?
-Other?
You and your profession
Straw Poll 2
AUANewcomersSession
Learningand
teaching
Engagement and
Service
Research and
Innovation
20. Wider recognitionof HE Administrationas acareer
AUANewcomersSession
Before
Few of us ever plan to be a
University administrator….
21. Wider recognitionof HE Administrationas acareer
AUANewcomersSession
After
…sowhat does that mean in
terms of professional
identity?
23. Is there a case for higher education as a
profession?
Is there a need to promote higher education
administration as a career of choice?
Should we / do we attract and retain our
graduates?
Are there concrete career pathways and routes?
What are the issues around specialist roles versus
generalist roles?
Key discussion topics
AUANewcomersSession
25. Commitment to CPD, skills
development and training
(AUA, leadership programmes
and internal/external events
and conferences)
Engagement with the wider
agendas in the sector
Collaboration, Partnership and
Networking
You and your career
Career Preparation- key aspects to help support progression
AUANewcomersSession
Constructive engagement
with academic staff
Always be student focused
and remember the purpose of
higher education
Embracing change and
continuous improvement
Reflect on performance
26. Online personal development planning
tool (PDP)
CPD activity diary
Personal development record
These tools enable you to detail your
current and developing role and overall
future objectives.
Where to begin?
As anAUA Member, youwill haveaccess toour :
AUANewcomersSession
28. What do you need to know to do your
job?
Where do you get that information?
The AUA can be especially valuable in a
context where knowledge is not
necessarily easy to come by.
Professional Knowledge
AUANewcomersSession
29. Decide what is important (career progression vs. home life
– you can switch!)
What qualifications and skills do you need to progress in
your career?
Skills development is important (should also seek
opportunities to manage staff)
Good to have an “eye for talent”
Must be approachable a good communicator and able to be
build successful staff teams
Your Approach?
AUANewcomersSession
30. Embrace change
Networking (professional associations and bodies,
staff from other universities/external
agencies/companies – internal and external
relationships may help you to progress!)
Take responsibility (for projects, initiatives for
example)
Delegation is the key to survival (with accountability
– you cannot do it all on your own! Avoid burn out!)
Your Approach 2
AUANewcomersSession
33. Youandthe conference
AUANewcomersSession
What made you come to the conference?
What areyourpersonal goals for the nexttwo days?
How will you ensureyou meet these goals?
How will you apply this learning back at work?
34. Networking
AUANewcomersSession
Usethe list of attendees
Seta target of meeting 2 new peoplein everybreak
Use”Meet the Networks” and”Meet the Trustees”
for introductions toothers
Ask focused, meaningful questions
Enjoythe moment andmake new friends!
Usesocial media
Follow up!
What’s specialabout you, your team or institution?
Everybody’shuman (and most are nice) –don’t be
starstruck!
Usethe time when you arrive at sessions to
introduce yourself
Stayoff your tech - the emails can wait!