AUA EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE - 'A PROFESSION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY'
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
27 - 29 MARCH 2000
An opportunity for specialists in managing and recruiting students to
meet fellow professionals to discuss specialist issues and the
challenges which face all managers and administrators in HE.
(Apologies for cross-posting)
1. MANAGING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
The following sessions are being offered at the 2000 AUA Conference,
under the theme 'Students: Managing the Student Experience'
· 'Addressing the needs of dyslexic students' Bob Glass, Ann Barlow
· 'Developing campus wide programmes to combat discrimination'
Professor Genelle Austin-Lett (USA), Professor Beth Von Till (USA),
Dr Dennis Jaehne (USA)
· 'Disabled students' allowance - the administrative process' Ann
Barlow
· 'Discrimination claims in practice' Members of Lawford & Co
Education Team, Dr Dennis Farrington
· 'Drugs awareness' Pamela Bell-Ashe
· 'Managing student complaints' Jim Whitaker, Celia Charlesworth
· 'Responding effectively to students' mental health needs' Nicky
Stanley, Jill Manthorpe
· 'Sleeping with the enemy - a different approach to student appeals
and complaints' Peter Pritchett, Robert Sherville
· 'Staff development and supporting students with disabilities'
Professor Alan Hurst
· 'Student accommodation - update on the market, the players and the
funding' Philip Hillman
· 'Student disciplinary system (at Essex)' Susan Rhodes
· 'Student finance - 1999 and beyond' Pamela Bell-Ashe
· 'Student health services' Dr Irene Weinreb
· 'Student support - fees, grants and loans' Roger Clark
· 'Students - customers with responsibility' Dr Maureen Blackmore
· 'The student contract and all that' Members of Lawford & Co
Education Team, Dr Dennis Farrington
2. STUDENT RECRUITMENT
The following sessions are being offered at the 2000 AUA Conference,
under the theme 'Students: Recruitment':
· 'A study on comparative academic performance of students who
enrolled at a highly selective US institution and also at UK
institutions' Dr David Settle (USA)
· 'Entry to HE - the guidance challenge' Richard Skerrett
· 'Improving undergraduate recruitment at course/department level' Zoe
Whitby
· 'International orientation' Syd Kent, Mandy Gutierrez
· 'Progression routes into HE' Richard Skerrett
· 'Widening Participation' Harinder Lawley
· 'Working with institutions to progress recognition of
qualifications' Dr Cloud Bai Yun
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The Conference offers something for everyone. We hope you will attend
and take advantage of the superb programme which includes:
· over 200 working sessions covering all areas of higher education
administration
· plenary keynote address by Professor Howard Newby CBE, President of
CVCP
· keynote presentations by influential figures from within and without
higher education
· a range of working sessions specifically for senior managers
· special programme of events for newcomers to the Conference or to
AUA
· exhibition featuring some of the top suppliers to higher education
institutions
· an exciting range of social events
PLENARY PRESENTATION
'Higher education in the 21st century - some possible futures'
Professor Howard Newby CBE, Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
-'Higher education professionals for the 21st Century'
Professor Robin Middlehurst, Director of Centre for Continuing
Education, University of Surrey
-'Introduction of the business excellence model'
Peter Lawrence, Deputy Director Support, Inland Revenue North West
-'Institutional racism? that's for the police isn't it? I've got
enough on my plate, what with falling student numbers, Private Finance
Initiative and the asbestos in the canteen!'
Dr Richard Stone, Chair, Jewish Council for Racial Equality
-'Inversions: the play of supply and demand in education'
Cees Anton de Vries, Consultant, Twynstra Gudde Management
Consultants, The Netherlands
-'The law in practice - how courts deal with student issues'
Clive Robertson and members of the Lawford & Co Solicitors Education
Team
-'Learners as partners: changing the culture of the HE enterprise'
Professor Diana Green, Vice-Chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University
-'Higher education in Africa - the role of university management and
administration'
Professor Narciso Matos, Secretary-General, Association of African
Universities, Ghana
-'The Transparency Review: old problems in a new guise'
Professor David Westbury, Vice-Principal, University of Birmingham
-'Change - the only continuity for the 21st century'
Dr Harvey Homan, Director of Innovation, The Boots Company PLC
-'From equal opportunities to institutional anti-racism_'
Professor Colin Bell, Vice-Chancellor, University of Bradford
-'Funding - an NUS perspective'
Andrew Pakes, President, National Union of Students (NUS)
-'Information everywhere. . . but not a drop to think!'
Graham Whitehead, Principal Consultant, BT
-'Forward with the UfI: Lifelong Learning in the 21st century'
Professor Bob Fryer, Principal and Chief Executive, University of
Southampton New College
-'Widening participation'
Sandra Burslem OBE, Vice Chancellor, Manchester Metropolitan
University
-'Women's issues'
Julie Mellor, Chair, Equal Opportunities Commission
WORKING SESSIONS
Choose from over 200 working sessions in the following themes:
-communications & information technology
-external relations
-higher education issues
-human resources issues
-issues for senior managers
-managing the university environment
-managing yourself
-networking sessions
-strategic and organisational planning
-students: managing the student experience
-students: recruitment
-working with people
FEES
299.00 GBP - RESIDENTIAL FEE
(Includes bed & breakfast accommodation & full board from lunch 27
March to lunch 29 March, all sessions, Monday night events &
Conference Dinner)
257.00 GBP - NON-RESIDENTIAL FEE
(Includes all of the above except accommodation and breakfast)
For further details and a Conference programme and application form
please contact:
AUA Office
University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 2063
Fax: +44 (0)161 275 2036
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www.man.ac.uk/aua
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