Leading the agile university

The recent Higher Education Leadership Summit “Leading the Agile University” saw the launch of a new set of free resources for leaders in UK Higher Education.

The resource, entitled JISC Portfolio for Senior Managers: employ technology to support your business goals, covers five areas: 

Strategies for agile institutions: scenario planning
Relationship management and business intelligence
Research rigour, accessibility and impact
Alternative business models for higher education
Enhancing the student and staff experience

Download from Lis Parcell’s blog:
http://blogs.rsc-wales.ac.uk/he/2010/02/16/leading-the-agile-university-take-three-steps/

Students as stakeholders

University of Glamorgan are hosting the 2nd Annual ESCalate Student Conference on Friday 16 April 2010, and the theme this year is Students as Stakeholders: take an active part in your own learning. Several things about this event look very interesting: firstly it’s excellent value at £30! Secondly it is a student conference with a keynote from Aaron Porter, Vice-President of the NUS (Higher Education) on The Importance of the Learner Voice in 21st Century Higher Education.

The deadline for bookings is 19 March.

From Lis Parcell:
http://blogs.rsc-wales.ac.uk/he/2010/02/17/students-as-stakeholders/

JISC capital funding call 13/09 Strand II update

JISC capital funding call 13/09 Strand II has now been re-issued. It has been clarified that both Welsh HE and FE are eligible to submit bids under this strand, and documentation has been revised to reflect this.

The JISC Executive have revised the dates and the new deadline for receipt of proposals is 12 Noon UK time on Monday 15 March 2010. Projects must now start by 1 May 2010 and should run for a maximum of 11 months and finish in March 2011.

Horizon Report

“The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, a qualitative research project established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry on college and university campuses within the next five years.

“In each edition of the Horizon Report, six emerging technologies or practices are described that are likely to enter mainstream use on campuses within three adoption horizons spread over the next one to five years. Each report also presents critical trends and challenges that will affect teaching and learning over the same time frame.

The 6 technologies described in detail in the body of the report are:
Mobile computing
Open content
Electronic books
Simple augmented reality
Gesture-based computing
Visual data analysis

http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/

Marketing your services

Joint UC&R Wales and Cilip Cymru Wales Marketing Your Services Event – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wednesday 3^rd March 2010 

Programme:
Morning: Visit to Welsh National Opera and Welsh Music Information Centre (Ty Cerdd)

10.00–11am: Tour of the Welsh National Opera library and facilities with Georgina Gouvier, Librarian and Ian Douglas, Company Manager.
The Welsh National Opera is a world-class touring opera company with a permanent company of 250 people. The work of the Chorus, Orchestra, principal singers, music staff and other creative teams is supported by a strong administration. This includes departments specifically specialising in areas including Development, Finance, Marketing, Media, Planning, Technical and WNO MAX (www.wno.org).
 
11–11.30am: Tour of Welsh Music Information Centre.  (Only limited places available)
The Welsh Music Information Centre (WMIC) aims to support and promote all genres of Welsh music. It collects and holds research scores of Welsh composers, recordings of Welsh music and reference materials, and provides an information service on music in Wales (www.wmic.org).

11.30am–1pm: Lunch break. Time to explore the Wales Millennium Centre and Cardiff Bay catering facilities independently. 

1pm–1.10pm: Introduction to the Marketing Workshop by Lloyd Ellis, Chair of Cilip Cymru Wales.
 
1.10pm–3pm: “‘How do you like your eggs in the morning?’: a simple 7 step toolkit for creating strategic marketing plans that really work.”  Kay Grieves, University of Sunderland. Venue: David Morgan Suite, Wales Millennium Centre.

The Strategic Marketing Toolkit puts your customers at the centre of service planning, delivery and promotion. Its 7 easy steps will help you to create marketing plans that clarify distinct service offers, target key customer groups and communicate the benefits of your services effectively.
Originally developed by University Library Services at the University of Sunderland, the toolkit has now been employed for various purposes at Sunderland and beyond, and has proved to be both highly accessible and transferable.

The aim of today’s workshop is to share with you the concept of the toolkit and its core techniques,  so that you can translate it for your own needs – ensuring your customers fully engage with your services and that you are able to demonstrate the real difference you are making to them.

This workshop, including tours and light refreshments, is available free of charge thanks to sponsorship by Cilip Cymru Wales.

To reserve a place, please e-mail your Name, Institution, and Address to:  
Nicola Watkinson: nicolaw@glyndwr.ac.uk
Tel:  01978 293338

HEFCE funding decision

 As a result of the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE) recent board meeting, JISC is able to confirm that the funding calls which had previously been postponed on 5 January 2010, as a consequence of HEFCE’s review of JISC’s capital funding, will now take place.

The managing research data grant funding call  and strand two of the developing community content grant funding call will now go ahead with some amendments.

The revised calls, along with deadlines for proposals which were postponed will be published shortly at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities.aspx  

The deadline for proposals for phase one of the developing community content grant funding call 12/09 remains the same at 8 February 2010.

If you have questions relating to a bid or invitation to tender please email funding@jisc.ac.uk