Measuring excellence: Meeting the challenges of proposed changes to sector

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This one-day conference anticipates the far-reaching changes to the HE sector first proposed in November, including the Teaching Excellence Framework (http://www.sconul.ac.uk/news/higher-education-green-paper-0). Keynote speakers will look broadly at what changes are likely to occur, and the impact those changes will have on Higher Education. A range of leaders in the sector will debate how excellence, both in research and teaching, will be measured. Parallel sessions will look at the unique and strategic role of professional services in delivering high-quality teaching and how professional recognition (through bodies like the HEA) may impact the way librarians are seen in their institutions and in the sector more widely. There will be an opportunity for delegates to provide views on how SCONUL should respond to the TEF technical consultation.

 

Start & End Date : 
Friday, April 29, 2016
Location: 

Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
London
NW1 2BE

Time: 
10.00 - 16.00
Speakers: 
Philip Lomas
Policy Team Leader, HE Student Experience, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
John Gill
Editor, Times Higher Education
Maddalaine Ansell
Chief Executive, University Alliance
Stephen Curry
Professor of Structural Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
Nick Hillman
Director, Higher Education Policy Institute
Mark Toole
Vice-Chair of SCONUL and Head of Libraries and Learning Resources, Nottingham Trent University
Brian Hipkin
Vice Chair of AMOSSHE and CEO and Founder of ReFRAME HE Consultancy Ltd
John Cartwright
Chair of UCISA and Director of Computing Services, University of Liverpool
Oliver Pritchard
Assistant Director of Student and Learning Support, University of Sunderland
Alison Robinson-Canham
Assistant Director, Professional Practice, Higher Education Academy
Professor James Wilsdon
Director of Impact and Engagement, Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor of Research Policy, Department of Politics
Contact: 
SCONUL
020 7387 0317
Cost: 
£190

 

This event is open to SCONUL members and invited persons only. If you are a non-member and wish to attend please get in touch with the SCONUL office.

 

Sponsors

 

Programme

10.00

Registration

10.25

Welcome
Liz Jolly, Chair of SCONUL and Director, Library & Information Services, Teesside University

10.35

Keynote on changes to the Higher Education sector

Philip Lomas, Policy Team Leader, HE Student Experience, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills

11.25

Coffee break

11.45

Measuring excellence: A debate moderated by John Gill, Editor, Times Higher Education

 

Maddalaine Ansell, Chief Executive, University Alliance
Stephen Curry, Professor of Structural Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
Nick Hillman, Director, Higher Education Policy Institute

12.45

Lunch

13.30

Parallel sessions

  • Professional services: our role in teaching, social mobility and student choice
    Mark Toole    , Vice-Chair of SCONUL and Head of Libraries and Learning Resources, Nottingham Trent University
    Brian Hipkin, Vice Chair of AMOSSHE and Dean of Students, Regent's University
    John Cartwright, Chair of UCISA and Director of Computing Services, University of Liverpool
  • The TEF Technical Consultation: Shaping the SCONUL response
    Oliver Pritchard    , Assistant Director of Student and Learning Support, University of Sunderland
  • Recognition for teaching
    Alison Robinson-Canham    , Assistant Director, Professional Practice, Higher Education Academy

14.30

Coffee break

14.50

After the Green Paper: how will research policy and funding change over the next five years?
Professor James Wilsdon, Director of Impact and Engagement, Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor of Research Policy, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield

15.50

Closing remarks
Liz Jolly, Chair of SCONUL and Director, Library & Information Services, Teesside University

16.00

Close and departure