Webinar | Acting on Anxiety: How Do We Know? How Do We Intervene?
Ashley Cave (University of Sunderland) explores action points for mental health practitioners seeking to support students who are experiencing anxiety.
Regional Disparities in Higher Education: A Guide for Widening Participation Professionals
This is an essential guide for widening participation practitioners working in higher education who wish to understand regional inequalities in England and strategies to combat them.
Linking Learning Across Space and Time: Learning Design for Better Student Outcomes
This article offers practical advice on how to think about your students and curriculum, including what you might do, to enable a better learning experience and hopefully better student outcomes.
To Attend or Not to Attend: Why Student Attendance Has Dropped Since the Pandemic and What We Can Do About It
New research explores trends in student attendance and engagement and considers what can be done to help improve it in the post-Covid world.
Public Affairs: Changing Tactics to Demonstrate How Universities Are a Force for Good
Communications and public affairs experts recognise the risk of becoming irrelevant if we fail to demonstrate our contributions to solving real-world problems and highlighting our impact.
Enhancing the Apprentice Experience: A Practical Guide
In this article, we explore a series of considerations universities can make to ensure that they are delivering an enhanced apprentice experience that can match the quality of the student experience.
A Guide for Careers Professionals: New Skills and Competencies to Integrate Into Your Employability Offering
As the labour market undergoes transformation, so too do the skills required from new graduates. Explore the increasingly important competencies students will need to develop to become successful graduates and how careers services can support them to develop these attributes.
Developing Impactful Work-Based Learning Programmes: Insights from London Met
Read about how London Metropolitan University is delivering impactful work-based learning programmes for their students.
Reflections on a Whole University Approach to AI
How can universities adopt a holistic, university-wide approach to crafting their AI strategies?
Practicing What We Preach: The Challenges of Using Generative AI for Staff and Institutions
The emergence of free and easy to use AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, Gemini and CoPilot, offers new opportunities and challenges for Higher Education staff and institutions.
Designing, Co-Producing and Delivering New Modules: Considerations for Collaboration
In this article, Ash Odedra outlines a model for co-production in enhancing course delivery with insights from the Faculty of Business and Law at the Open University.
Beyond Embedding Employability: Towards the Development of Higher Skills and Attributes in Higher Education
It is an opportune moment to intentionally and explicitly embed the development of higher skills into academic curricula.
How Do You Focus Your Service Delivery? Enhancing Careers Guidance at Edge Hill University
In this article, Becka Colley-Foster explores how Edge Hill University have tailored service delivery to respond to the personal needs of individual students through a data-focused approach.
A New Approach to Graduate Employability Skills: Creative Education for a Changing World
This article provides an overview of the strategic approach being adopted by Arts University Plymouth, and outlines some of the activities being developed that aim to enhance our students’ employability skills and facilitate their progression into professional creative practice.
Key Considerations for Senior Leaders When Supporting Students with the Use of Generative AI
Senior leaders should be asking themselves: how can we best prepare students for an AI enabled world of work?
Understanding Student Decision Making: Insights from StudentCrowd
This article details the decision-making process of students. It outlines the stages of awareness, consideration, and decision, emphasising the role of research and peer reviews.
Lifelong Learning at the University of Leeds: Being Open, Reaching Out
This article explores how professionals at the Lifelong Learning Centre at the University of Leeds are striving to align marketing and outreach strategies for greater impact.
Unlocking the Power of Data Democratisation with ChatGPT in Higher Education: Reflections from the University of Law
Following on from our 2024 event on A Whole University Approach to Generative AI, Andy Ramsden explores data democratisation in higher education with insights from the University of Law.
UCEA Report Explores the Highs and Lows of Working in HE
A recent report, commissioned by UCEA via People Insight, explores what it’s really like to work in HE for professional services staff.
The Evolution of Careers Advisers as HE Professionals: Insights from the University of the West of England (UWE)
This article explores the shifting landscape of careers service delivery in higher education and reflects on how employability advisers are creating new professional identities within this context.