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- Increasing accountability, encouraging wider participation and improving the student experience through the OfS’s risk-based approach
- Operating the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) to incentivise the improvement of the quality of teaching across the sector
- Removing unnecessary barriers to entry and minimising regulatory burden for all providers
- Achieving value for money across UK universities and enhancing student engagement
- Promoting student welfare and reinforcing safeguarding on campus
- Examining prospective changes to student fees from a policy perspective
- Raising the earnings threshold for repaying tuition fees in England, saving individual students up to £15,700 over their working lives
- Exploring the role of higher education institutions as service providers and resolving the dilemma presented by an absence of market diversity
- Considering the impact of the contemporary fees system on students from poorer backgrounds
- Outlining latest TEF timescales & deadlines for implementation: changes for Year 3
- Preparing for a move towards subject-level TEF and mandatory registration
- Understanding the role of regulatory bodies in TEF
- Increasing the emphasis on improving transparency & informing prospective student choice
- Student and students’ union involvement & engagement in provider responses
- Exploring the relationship between performance, fees & income
- Update on the review of the UK Quality Code for Higher Education to be published in November 2018
- Assessing the future powers and responsibilities of the QAA in relation to the OfS
- UK transnational education (TNE): opportunities and challenges
- Ensuring that the quality of UK HE provision and student experience is recognised and maintained
- Promoting the development of education in across countries and facilitating academic collaboration through dual degrees
- Reinforcing aims to create graduates with international qualifications and experience ready to contribute to international business and industry
- Increasing research and innovation collaboration as well as opportunities for student and staff mobility
- Providing students with scholarship and skills needed for lifetime careers as leaders in industry and academies
11:50 am — 12:50 pm
Unlocking the decant process. How to design and procure high-quality, interim space for the country’s best universities
11:50 am — 12:50 pm
How to achieve the highest TEF rating for ‘Student Outcomes and Learning Gain
- How can emphasis on student experience improve enrolment, employability and engagement
- Foundations of student experience: technology or human problems?
- Creating and delivering curriculum in response to student requirements
- Engaging senior industry experts to ensure continuous practical learning
- Working in partnership with experts to develop curriculum, case studies and assessments to support online courses and OPMs
- Collaborating with experts to support online growth from development to assessment
- Developing industry and geography relevant curriculum for international students and international expansion
- Creating equal access to quality teaching for popular and new courses
- Increasing industry-academia collaboration to support research and employment
- Discussing opportunities and challenges for universities after Brexit, with 17% of academic staff and 6% of professional services staff at UK universities coming from EU countries
- Understanding the decline in EU applicants and older applicants from the UK, respectively 7% and 5% in 2017
- Outlining policy priorities to support universities to thrive post-exit, from international student recruitment to funding and graduates career and employability
- Securing an effective post-Brexit settlement where universities can maximise their contribution to a globally-successful UK
- Understanding how the reformed post-Brexit immigration system will look like and what this will mean for HEIs
- Explaining the role of universities and how they can develop innovation with UK businesses abroad by sharing an understanding of the partner countries and their markets
John Bramwell
Director of Higher Education
British Council (Confirmed)
Gordon McKenzie
Chief Executive
Guild HE (Confirmed)
Delyth Chambers
Director, Student Recruitment, Outreach and Admissions
University of Warwick (Confirmed)
Amy Smith
Senior Policy Executive
UCAS (Confirmed)
Dan Hurley
Policy Manager
Universities UK
- Student Experience - Digital Learning & Technology
- Student Experience - Marketing & Engagement
- Student Experience - Procurement & Estates
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4:00 pm
4:20 pm
Using Data to Enhance Student Experience in Higher Education
- Making the most of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a consistent HE data infrastructure
- Transform the sector’s approach to student data collection and deliver more timely and relevant data through the HESA’s Data Futures
- Providing the data on teaching quality and data futures to underpin Office for Students reforms
- Understanding prospective students and enabling universities to adapt to their needs
4:20 pm
4:40 pm
Enhancing Digital Learning for the Benefits of Students
- Using learning analytics to shape courses in a way that enhances the student experience, enriching content and connectivity
- Incorporating technology assisted digital learning strategies to create a modern digital empowerment
- Creating a world class infrastructure through technology to enhance efficiency
- Ensuring that students are provided with the digital skills they need for the future workplace
- Examining the results of Jisc’s Student Digital Tracker 2018 Survey
4:40 pm
5:00 pm
Minimising the Risk of Cyber-Attack in the Higher Education Sector
- Strengthening the safety of all connected systems through cyber resilience practices including reporting and crisis management
- Demanding ‘secure by default’ products within the universities’ supply chains and understanding vulnerabilities and cybersecurity risks
- Getting government, industry, academia and regulators working together to address criticality levels on a sector-by-sector basis and build stronger mechanisms
- Ensuring research to enable the development of new methods that will reduce risks and basing policy on scientific knowledge and commerciality
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4:00 pm
4:20 pm
Formulating an Outstanding Marketing Strategy to Recruit and Retain Students
- Delivering an award winning, multi-platform approach to student marketing
- Conducting detailed research of the student market and targeted trend analysis to develop a strong personalised campaign
- Integrating social media marketing using Snapchat filters, Boomerang and content pieces with a highly responsive website to drive traffic
- Developing the University’s innovative #LboroFamily Golden Ticket campaign to allow new students to share their acceptance into the university
- Delivering a leading higher education clearing campaign resulting in the generation of £4.6 million of additional income generation and leading to rising numbers of applicants
4:20 pm
4:40 pm
NUS International Students’ Campaign: Developing a Whole University Approach to Internationalisation
- Making internationalisation a key component of future success and breaking the barriers to international student recruitment
- Claiming a better immigration system and government policy for an improved student experience
- Reinforcing NUS’s efforts to keep the UK as a welcoming country and protect students after Brexit
- Fostering a global culture and changing perceptions of studying in the UK after the changes to post-work visas
- Addressing the main obstacles for international student recruitment including immigration healthcare surcharge and its implications on student engagement
- Aiming for a fixed fee guarantee for all international students as a means to retain them enrolled in their programmes
4:40 pm
5:00 pm
Providing Quality Mental Health Support Through a Whole University Approach
- Addressing founding for mental health: maximising available resources to provide the best counselling support possible
- Integrating wellbeing in universities’ curriculums as a means to abolish stigmas and make mental health more visible
- A student-centred approach: a mental health strategy that addresses the needs of a heterogeneous student faculty and helping students with transition
- Improving students’ data sharing between universities and local health services for a more efficient treatment and support
- Working with the NHS service to improve the referrals system
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4:00 pm
4:20 pm
Developing Effective Procurement Models to Thrive in the Face of Sector Challenges
- Understanding how much your institution spends with suppliers
- How well defined are your procurement performance measures?
- Providing an overview of tools to help you make intelligent efficiencies and improve your Value for Money
4:20 pm
4:40 pm
The Higher Education Procurement Landscape – Challenges and Opportunities
- Providing an overview of the landscape in which HE sector procurement professionals find themselves
- Discussing how procurement can help the HE sector respond to tighter budgets
- Understanding the part to be played by procurement in helping institutions realise their wider non-financial objectives
- Outlining the importance of procurement in ensuring compliance with recent legislation such as GDPR and Modern Slavery
- Examining the procurement implications of Brexit for the HE sector
4:40 pm
5:00 pm
Case study: The ‘Sticky Campus’ – enhancing student experience through innovative estate management
- What is a ‘sticky campus’?
- Maximising assets and infrastructure to enhance student experience
- International success of the concept – originating in Australia
- Delivering on strategic goals and revolutionising teaching & learning, by transforming estates
