On these events and opportunities pages we hope to keep you informed of events to hear the research of other members, visiting speakers, and opportunities to present your own research locally, nationally, and internationally. Specific upcoming events are listed below. More information about other general events and opportunities are listed in the other pages listed.

Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Getting to grips with the intangibles of Higher Education

November 22, 2019 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Much of what we measure in education as KPIs is extremely useful in steering strategy around recruitment or employability as well as measuring success in education, however it is well recognised that KPIs do not measure all the qualities we use to make such measurements. These intangibles have been the subject of a current QAA Enhancement Theme collaborative cluster called Beyond the Metrics: The intangibles. (https://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/current-enhancement-theme/defining-and-capturing-evidence/the-intangibles-beyond-the-metrics#).
This Cluster, led by Dr Alastair Robertson (Dir Teaching and Learning at Abertay) has developed resources to help evidence some of the more intangible aspects of the student experience. Following a series of nine workshops this group explored how intangibles might be of use to a variety of aspects of education development activity as well as recruitment and the student journey. The following five areas were the intangibles which the participants felt were currently the most prominent requirements which could not be quantified in their HE practices:

  1. Sense of belonging to a (learning) community.
  2. Building effective relationships (between students and staff and between staff).
  3. The transformational impact of (a university) education.
  4. Wellbeing (of students and staff).
  5. Student engagement in their own learning and the wider student learning experience.

Alastair Robertson is a highly respected and active member of the Higher Education community. He is the Deputy Chair of the Scottish Higher Education Enhancement Committee (SHEEC), is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and occasionally writes for Wonkhe.

At this workshop Alastair will guide us through a method we can utilise to help identify and understand the intangibles in our areas of influence. He will provide a background perspective of the concept and work he has done so far, as well as taking us through a number of group-worked examples.

The benefits of understanding one’s own intangible assets for rankings, both within the curricula and non-curricula lives of staff and students are clear. In recent years there has been a groundswell of interest in how Universities can recognise their own intangible assets and target activity to enhance them to improve recruitment, retention, the student experience and curricula offerings.

  • Intended outcomes of the session include:
  • An appreciation of the importance of understanding intangible factors
  • An understanding of how to identify important intangibles in a particular work arena
  • Experience of identifying intangibles in a Higher Education setting.

This workshop is potentially of interest to staff who organise or practice teaching and those in strategic or service provision positions within the University and will be held in Lower College Hall on 22 November 2019. The Workshop will commence at 2.30pm with refreshments available from 2.15pm. The workshop will close at 4:30pm

Please book here via PDMS.

Dr Jon Issberner (Acting Deans of Science)

Details

Date:
November 22, 2019
Time:
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Event Categories:
, ,
Event Tags:
,
Website:
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/pdms/index.php?Mode=Search&AudienceID=5&CourseID=10293

Organiser

St Andrews Learning and Teaching Initiative (SALTI)
Email
jpi@st-andrews.ac.uk
View Organiser Website

Venue

Lower College Hall, St Andrews
St Salvator's Quadrangle, North Street
St Andrews, KY16 9AL United Kingdom
+ Google Map