Leadership Foundation

Future Proofing Higher Education

Wednesday 25 January 2012

Overview

As Higher Education faced some of its biggest challenges and opportunities, this national conference looked to stimulate new approaches to innovation, change and efficiency in HE. At the event, we launched the joint LF/Hefce £1m Innovation and Transformation Fund (ITF), aimed at energising change across the sector. A key stimulus was the recent UUK report on Efficiencies, Effectiveness and Modernisation. Participants heard how the ITF scheme will work and how their HEI could participate in and benefit from this new major sector initiative.

We also showcased the best of the Hefce LGM projects on key change issues :

• Distinctiveness and identity
• Return on investment
• Collaborations, Alliances and Mergers
• Leading curriculum change
• Creating value

Speakers included:

• Matthew Taylor – Chief Executive, RSA – innovative thinker and provocateur
• Sir Alan Langlands – Chief Executive, Hefce
• Nicola Dandridge – Chief Executive, UUK

Powerpoints from the Day

Main Atrium

• Celebrating Projects: Past and Present

Breakout Workshops

• Collaborations, alliances and mergers in HE
  David James, Hefce
• Creating Value
  Patrick Kennedy and Iain Springate, University of Exeter
  Jo Smith, University College Falmouth
• Leading Curriculum Change for Sustainability: Strategic Approaches to Quality Enhancement
  Professor Daniella Tilbury and Dr Alex Ryan, University of Gloucestershire
  Dr John Blewitt, Aston University
  Pauline Ridley, University of Brighton
  Harriet Sjerps-Jones, University of Exeter
• Shared Services In Higher Education No skills or knowledge required
  Dominic Macdonald-Wallace MA, CEd. AFPC Director of Learning and Development Shared Service Architecture Ltd and Lecturer in Shared Services Canterbury Christ Church University

Main Lecture Theatre

• Distinctiveness: Lessons from The Cathedrals Group project
  Ewart Wooldridge CBE, Chief Executive, Leadership Foundation
  Susan Boorman, General Secretary, The Cathedrals Group
• Underpinning Excellence in HE:Key factors for success
  Steve Chadwick, Seng Kok, Mark Crabtree, Durham University
• Launch of the Innovation and Transformation Fund
  Chair: Ewart Wooldridge CBE, Chief Executive, Leadership Foundation
  Professor Steve West, Chair, ITF, and Vice-Chancellor, University of West of England, Bristol
  Paul Clark, Director of Policy, Universities UK
  Yvonne Perry, Regional Consultant, Hefce
  Dr Lesly Huxley, ITF Programme Manager, Leadership Foundation
• Researching and developing a framework for the evaluation of academic and support staff learning and development in Higher Education
  Lesley Lee and Dr Fiona Robson, Northumbria University