A chance to network with colleagues from planning teams around the UK.
A unique experience using the Hopin platform's networking carousel, you will spend 3 minutes chatting to someone, before you are whisked off to meet someone new.
Feedback from previous delegates using this feature has been overwhelmingly positive - it is more fun and less stressful than it sounds, we promise! Come and give it a try!
Heidi will speak about what is needed in institutions, from senior leaders to students, to ensure technology is benefitting staff and students alike, both now and in the future. Touching on skills, culture, emerging technologies and Jisc's role in supporting University teams - this wide ranging talk will cover why thinking only about technology is not enough when considering the future of digitally enhanced education.
Speaker: Heidi Fraser-Krauss, CEO, Jisc
Chair: Wesley Rennison, Director of Strategic Planning, University of Strathclyde
An opportunity for refreshments and catching up with colleagues via the Hopin platform. Please see the information video about Hopin to learn how to use direct messaging, arrange video calls and use the conference chat features.
Learning Analytics (LA) has been part of the Higher Education landscape for over a decade, yet it has only slowly been implemented by institutions and the evidence of benefits to students is limited. In this workshop, Christine Couper will report on feedback from a recent HESPA survey about the use of LA and the role being played by planners. Carolyn Fearn and Ed Foster will provide some insights into their successful LA implementations at Sheffield Hallam and Nottingham Trent Universities respectively. They will focus on how student engagement patterns have led to actions being taken and how insights about “what works” being generated. We will conclude with an open discussion about how planners can work effectively as part of cross-institutional teams to support successful LA implementations that both improve student outcomes and create evidence of impact on student engagement, continuation and completion.
An opportunity for refreshments and catching up with colleagues via the Hopin platform. Please see the information video about Hopin to learn how to use direct messaging, arrange video calls and use the conference chat features.
Following a conversation on the HESPA Discussion Board this session has been arranged to allow interested members to meet and discuss further via MS Teams.
Whilst the meeting is being held during the HESPA Virtual conference you do not need to be a delegate in order to attend this meeting.
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An opportunity for refreshmemts and catching up with colleagues via the Hopin platform. Please see the information video about Hopin to learn how to use direct messaging, arrange video calls and use the conference chat features.
This workshop, led by Thomas Owen-Smith of SUMS Consulting (and formerly King’s College London’s Directorate of Strategy, Planning & Analytics), will explore the integration of sustainability objectives into strategic planning in universities. Participants will investigate current practice across the UK HE sector, think about challenges or blockers to success, and consider potential solutions to some of these. Drawing on examples of effective practice from inside and outside the sector, and making recommendations for augmenting, spreading and embedding more widely, participants should come away with some fresh ideas to trial at their institution. Discussions held at the workshop will feed into a more detailed sector project on the topic; and participants may wish to form a community of practice to continue engaging with one another after the event, something which HESPA would be pleased to support and coordinate.
Speakers: Tom Owen-Smith - Consultant, SUMS Consulting
The session (with Data Futures firmly in mind) will explore how to best configure a university to deliver robust and accurate statutory data reporting. Specifically the session will reflect on the policy, process and system landscapes that impact our capabilities in this space, as well as exploring the changes the University of Wolverhampton have introduced across these landscapes to ensure timely and effective reporting. There will be examples of best practice in establishing and governing policy, redefining processes to be progressive (the university no longer run exam boards!), and how automation and reporting will be integral to all that we do.
Speakers: Dan Kidd - Director Registry Services, University of Wolverhampton
An opportunity for refreshments and catching up with colleagues via the Hopin platform. Please see the information video about Hopin to learn how to use direct messaging, arrange video calls and use the conference chat features.
This session will explore how sustainability is being measured in higher education, both by institutions themselves and also external league table compilers. By looking across institutional KPIs and onto external metrics used by QS and THE for their sustainability and impact rankings, speakers will discuss methodologies, challenges and opportunities associated with each, as well as how the sector might balance the intersections between them. The session will also consider the use of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which much of this work is framed around.
Chaired by: Emma Hartley, Planning & Performance Manager, The University of Sheffield
Speakers: Dr Julian Skyrme, Director of Social Responsibility, University of Manchester (to be confirmed); Dr Drew MacFarlane, Senior Research Manager, QS; Sam Whittaker, Senior Higher Education Consultant, Times Higher Education
A chance to network with colleagues from planning teams around the UK.
A unique experience using the Hopin platform's networking carousel, you will spend 3 minutes chatting to someone, before you are whisked off to meet someone new.
Feedback from previous delegates using this feature has been overwhelmingly positive - it is more fun and less stressful than it sounds, we promise! Come and give it a try!
In this session we will hear from colleagues from a representative group of institutions across the sector about their various challenges around funding and the current context. We will hear what they might be doing to mitigate or manage some of these challenges, and what their plans are for the coming year/s. Themes are likely to include home student demographics, prospects for international students, research funding/Horizon replacement, LLE and part time, student expectations and innovation to generate new and alternative income streams. After an initial introduction from each speaker, we hope that this will turn into an open discussion with delegates, so please speak up to challenge, seek opinions, and offer your own comments.
Chaired by Al Carlile, Director of Planning at the University of Sheffield, Al will also offer Russell Group representation in discussions. The other panel members are Laura Knox (St. Andrews), Miranda Routledge (Loughborough) and Jonathan Woodhead (Birkbeck).
An opportunity for refreshments and catching up with colleagues via the Hopin platform. Please see the information video about Hopin to learn how to use direct messaging, arrange video calls and use the conference chat features.
Data Storytelling: the ability to effectively communicate insights from a dataset using narratives and visualisations, has become an increasingly relevant and important skill for Planners. Many of us will have attended a training course or read articles and books on the subject. This seminar explores what happens next, after the training. The two speakers will explain their approaches, what they’ve done, what has worked and what hasn’t, and then there will be a short workshop to explore delegates’ experiences and recommendations.
Matthew Shute, Head of Planning, University of Bristol; Dr Catherine Murray, Director of Planning, Queen Mary University of London
This session will help you think about how to further develop your planning function, and introduce you to some tools that may help.
John Britton, Consulting Fellow, Halpin
An opportunity for lunch and catching up with colleagues via the Hopin platform. Please see the information video about Hopin to learn how to use direct messaging, arrange video calls and use the conference chat features.
How can Higher Education Institutions dynamically and strategically prioritise limited resources more effectively? The landscape in which they operate is evolving more quickly than ever before, with ever-increasing demands on ever-diminishing resources. UK institutions need to keep up with the changing expectations of students, regulators, local communities, business and colleagues, as well as replacing legacy IT, embedding sustainability (in many cases, into ageing estates), and positioning themselves competitively to attract students and research partners – all against a backdrop of fixed home undergraduate fees, increasing global competition and sky-rocketing inflation. This discussion will cover models and approaches for strategic prioritisation, including what senior leaders need from planners, how to frame decision-making for success, and how to balance evolving capability in BAU with strategic change initiatives.
Victoria Jones Parry, Director of Strategic Programmes, University of Bristol; Natalie Seaton-Lucas, Portfolio Manager, Strategic Programmes and Projects, University of Bristol
Quality and credibility of qualifications
• regulation:
o assessing the developing landscape and its impact on stakeholders - the role of bodies such as the OfS, QAA and UKSCQA in protecting quality and credibility of awards
o compliance with new OfS registration conditions - the impact of ongoing regulation on providers, awarding and credibility
• provider processes and governance:
o implementing revised degree outcome statements
o gathering performance and awarding data - using data in self-assessment and planning
o reforming and strengthening internal governance and academic structures to meet awarding targets
• partnerships: collaboration with PSRBs and quality bodies to improve internal processes and algorithm design - developing staff - maintaining quality and value in joint-awarding
• awarding gaps: closing awarding gaps while tackling grade inflation - priorities for fairness in implementing new policies
Oscar Minto, RUSU Education Officer, Reading University Students’ Union; Dr Alex Bols, Deputy CEO, GuildHE
An opportunity for refreshments and catching up with colleagues via the Hopin platform. Please see the information video about Hopin to learn how to use direct messaging, arrange video calls and use the conference chat features.
Broadly, learning analytics is the process of gathering data as students interact with the learning processes, gaining insights to these students and then acting appropriately based on this data. The approach is very good at spotting students early who are at risk of failing or underperforming on their courses. Unlike more traditional measures of risk, for example demographics or entry qualifications, learning analytics can also be personalised to the individual student, potentially avoiding issues such as stereotyping. However, despite wealth of data, it has often proven difficult to adjust students’ outcomes. This may be that we don’t have the right kind of data at the right time, but I’d argue that it’s far more likely to be about problems translating metrics into actions. Students struggling to engage with their studies seem highly resistant to rational presentations of information or nudges, instead preferring highly personalised interventions.
Chair: Jackie Njoroge, Director of Strategy, University of Salford
Speaker: Ed Foster, Head of Student Engagement & Analytics, Nottingham Trent University
