AUA Blog
The AUA blog is a space to voice opinion, inform, celebrate and share perspectives of working in higher education administration and management today. Each blog will provide thoughts and ideas from three core outlooks:
Policy, me and my role: what is your opinion or experience of the impact of policy on your role or on HE administration and management more widely? What can others learn from you?
Professional development: knowledge, ideas and tools for furthering a career in higher education and enriching your experience of being a HE professional.
My AUA: covering everything that the AUA has to offer, brought to you from members who have experienced it first-hand.
If you’d like to write a blog for us, please email us at hello@aua.ac.uk to express your interest.
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International Opportunity CAUBO 2021
Published on Apr 8, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AUA Updates , International conferences
International Opportunity: CAUBO 2021 15 to 17 June 2021 | Online The AUA is thrilled to announce that, thanks to our partnership with CAUBO, we are offering an exciting opportunity for one of our members to attend CAUBO Annual Conference 2021. Information on the event CAUBO’s flagship professional development event, the Annual Conference brings together […]
What are students ‘buying’ from universities?
Published on Mar 23, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Consulting , AUA Updates
What are students ‘buying’ from universities? I was talking to a friend who works for British Airways recently, and commiserating with him over the disruption that Covid caused to his industry and the stress he must have faced in his job. ‘Actually’, he said, ‘you had it worse in HE because we had contingency plans. […]
Fake Degrees, Visa Mills & Identity Fraud: how Jisc are protecting UK graduates, universities, and employers
Published on Mar 23, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Updates
AUA Annual Conference 2021 Exhibitor BlogJisc______________________________ Every year the HE sector comes under threat from fraudsters, cheats and those looking to circumvent the system in order to get a valuable qualification. Whether that’s an increase in bogus institutes, using fake certificates, or individuals falsifying student identities, these threaten the reputation and stability of the HE […]
Professional Services – Future-Fit?
Published on Mar 3, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Consulting , AUA Updates
Professional Services – Future-Fit? It’s now more than a year since the pandemic first hit the UK. It is hard to remember life and work in our institutions pre-COVID-19. 2021 will be potentially even more challenging for HE. As Steve Smith highlighted in another AUA blog the rapid changes in methods of delivery and ways […]
To proctor or not to proctor – is that the question?
Published on Feb 25, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Updates
AUA Annual Conference 2021 Exhibitor BlogUNIwise______________________________ The use of facial recognition technology during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a widespread debate within the HE community about to what extent surveillance and invasion of privacy is reasonable in order for universities to carry out their obligation to ensure fair and credible assessment of students. The […]
A new world of virtual operations: simplifying, standardising, and transforming the work of professional services
Published on Feb 19, 2021 / No Comments
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AUA Annual Conference 2021 Exhibitor BlogRon Yanosky | EAB______________________________ COVID-19 has transformed higher education into a virtualised industry. While online learning is the most conspicuous part of this new reality, the shift from campus-bound to remote professional services operations is a quieter but equally noteworthy achievement. Our workforce has remained flexible in adopting new modes […]
Just a Minute…….Governance Practice in the New Normal
Published on Feb 16, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Consulting , AUA Updates , Governance
Just a Minute…….Governance Practice in the New Normal Being ever the optimist, I am making plans for returning to face to face meetings sooner rather than later and, in relation to committee administration, a few positives have emerged as a result of the global pandemic. I am no longer overly worried about anyone requesting remote […]
Unlocking your data capability
Published on Feb 1, 2021 / No Comments
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Unlocking your data capability If you put “data” into Google you get 8.97 billion results. For comparison, “Covid” gets 6.55 billion, “Trump” gets 1.78 billion, “Brexit” gets 182 million. There are many reasons why data has become big, not least of which is the development of technologies and protocols to capture data easily, store vast […]
Wellbeing: Rhetoric or Reality?
Published on Jan 14, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Consulting , AUA Updates
Something’s been nagging at me through the holiday season. I’ve been pondering a theme in the corporate messaging that seemed to emerge in the final few weeks of the year, shared with me by a number of my coachees (from within and beyond the HE sector) and observed by others on a couple of social […]
Tips to combat WFH monotony
Published on Jan 13, 2021 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Updates , Work and Covid
Rebecca Mapp | Office Operations Manager | Worktribe______________________________ In this blog, Rebecca from Worktribe shares her own experience of the ups and down of the last nine months, and distills a couple of simple but useful tips from seasoned home-office workers in her team. When the first wave of news of the Covid-19 pandemic hit, […]