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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Business Continuity planning redefined – will you be resilient in the next crisis?
Published on Nov 25, 2020 / 1 Comment
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Consulting , AUA Updates
Business Continuity planning redefined – will you be resilient in the next crisis? When the first wave of COVID-19 hit you probably did have ‘pandemic’ somewhere on your business continuity plan. You may well have reached for that plan – or perhaps your hastily established crisis management team just got on with it. Sadly, the […]
Global Perspectives for a Hopeful Future
Published on Nov 11, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Consulting , AUA Updates
Global Perspectives for a Hopeful Future I suppose that every British university, and most of those in other countries, says something like: ‘We help our students and staff develop as global citizens’. If universities fail to do this, and fail to recognise an obligation to do so, there must be something wrong! At a time […]
Honest Leadership
Published on Oct 29, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , Future HE Professionals
Honest Leadership Emma Wilkins, Executive Search Consultant, Dixon Walter When we think about what we want from higher education professionals, as the AUA has been doing, for me one of the most significant requirements is for strong and effective leadership. I feel that as a sector we have historically placed high value on subject knowledge, functional […]
Professional Services – ready for new operating models?
Published on Oct 15, 2020 / 2 Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Consulting , AUA Updates , Work and Covid
Professional Services – ready for new operating models? The academic year just starting will be extremely challenging for all HE institutions. The COVID-19 pandemic has required changes in methods of delivery and operation as well as putting significant financial pressure on the sector. In this context many institutions will be reviewing their strategies and plans […]
Strategic Enrolment Management
Published on Jul 28, 2020 by Mary Hughes / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Consulting , AUA Updates
The HE sector, like the country, is frustrated, frightened and gasping for breath. With reluctance, the sector engaged with the marketization of HE forced upon it by successive governments: marketing departments were established, strategies written and budgets allocated. Reacting to the market when the unexpected happens is part of the strategy, but when the fundamental […]
Future HE Professionals an update
Published on Jul 20, 2020 by Dr Andrew West / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Updates , Future HE Professionals
What do future trends in the world of work mean for professionals working in higher education and how are professional roles changing in this context – not to mention the additional impacts arising from the Coronavirus pandemic? What are the likely development needs to support new ways of working into the future and what role […]
Predictably unpredictable
Published on Jul 16, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Updates , Work and Covid
Internationalisation and Coronavirus
Published on Jul 2, 2020 by Dr Andrew West / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Updates , Work and Covid
Internationalisation and Coronavirus – what next for HE professional services? 1) Be better informed – make some time, particularly in the post-lockdown period, to develop your knowledge of international HE, bringing the benefits of this learning into your professional practice over the challenging months ahead. One option might be to subscribe (for free) to University […]
How to maintain team cohesion
Published on Jun 4, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Updates , Work and Covid
Finding solutions
Published on Jun 4, 2020 / No Comments
Category: AUA Blog , AUA Updates , CPD Framework , Professional Development
Finding Solutions The ‘finding solutions’ behaviour describes the ability to analyse problems and develop workable and often innovative solutions. To be strong in this behaviour you will seek input from those around you as well as encouraging others to develop their own solutions. The AUA can help you to develop this, as it has plenty […]