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Seminar Programme for 2012

'The Do's and Don'ts of Due Diligence' - A Workshop for Practitioners

**The Workshop has attracted a lot of interest and as of 17th May there were only 7 places left. If you want to attend this event we advise that you send in your Booking Form as soon as possible. We will hold a reserve list and if there is sufficient demand/interest consider running the Workshop again.**

Conference Aston, Birmingham
Friday, 22nd June 2012

The Workshop is intended for those involved in managing their Institution’s procedures for Due Diligence and ensuring that the proper procedure is followed. It will also be useful for staff who are involved with the Collaborative and Partnership activity of their Institution by giving them an insight into how ‘Due Diligence’ should operate. The sessions at the Workshop will give delegates a QAA perspective, a legal perspective and the view of practitioners from two Universities. UK NARIC will also present on the support that they can provide to Universities. There will be opportunities to ask questions throughout the day with a Panel Session to end the day.

'Developments in overseas Campuses and Partnerships'

Thursday, 22nd March 2012.

Venue: The Tuke Common Room - Regent's College Conference Centre, London.

The focus of the above seminar will be on overseas campuses, and we have invited a number of speakers from the HE sector to give a presentation based upon their experience of developing, running and quality assuring such provision.

  • Rachel Winzer the Director of Research 1994 Group will be presenting the Group's recent policy report on Strategies and Trends in the internationalisation of UK Universities.
  • Dr. Martha-Marie Kleinhans Vice-Provost (Academic), Malaysia Campus of the University of Reading will give a presentation on the University's
    experience of setting up their Malaysian campus.
  • Michelle Rushforth, Head of Teaching Quality and Ann Cook, Teaching Quality Support Officer at the University of Liverpool will discuss the quality assurance challenges at their International University in China, run in partnership Xi'an Jiaotong University.
  • Dr Frank Haddleton, Director of Academic Quality and Assurance University of Hertfordshire will be discussing the issues related to delivery of collaborative programmes in a language other than English.

Seminar Programme [PDF]

Booking Form (doc)

Archived Seminars & Events

‘Developing and Managing Articulation Agreements’

A Joint seminar of the Council of Validating Universities (CVU) and the Northern Universities Consortium (NUCCAT) was held on Thursday 15th December 2011.

Seminar Programme [PDF]

Presentations

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The Revised CVU Handbook for Practitioners

The management, quality assurance and legal arrangements for Joint & Dual Awards.
A Joint CVU-AULP Seminar.
28th June 2011.

MIC Hotel & Conference Centre, London.

The Seminar focussed on the management, quality assurance and legal arrangements for Joint & Dual Awards. The Seminar looked at some examples of how the awards could be best developed, approved and managed.

Seminar Programme [PDF]

Presentations

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Six Months on From Browne (The Impact of Government Policy and Spending Decisions on Collaborative Partner Activity in the Public & Private Arenas)

Wednesday 13th April 2011.

A joint seminar with the British Accreditation Council
Venue - UCL London.

This seminar will look at the impact of recent government policy and spending decisions on Partnership Activity from both Publicly funded and Private Provider point of view.

Seminar Information [PDF]

Seminar Programme [PDF]

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International Partnerships

Wednesday 16th February 2011

A Seminar for Practitioners, The Tavistock Room - Woburn House Conference Centre.

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'The Changing Agenda for HE and its impact on Collaborative Partnerships'

Conference 2010 - 16th & 17th September 2010

Venue: Midland Hotel, Manchester

The conference this year focused on the impact on Collaborative Partnerships of the changing agenda for Higher Education in the light of cuts to the Higher Education budget. The Conference was addressed by the Chief Executive of the QAA - Anthony McClaran and the Principal of New College, Durham - John Widdowson. In addition, delegates had the opportunity to attend a variety of workshops and seminars.

Members can access the presentations via the Members Area page.

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Reaching & Responding to Employers

Woburn House, Tavistock Square, London - 9th June 2010.

This seminar explored the processes and systems universities and colleges might need to have in place to support effective work with employers. In addition to presentations there where opportunities to interrogate "expert witnesses" to identify effective and transferable practice.

It is with great pleasure that we offer to the full membership these Powerpoint presentations from the CVU seminar “Reaching and Responding to Employers”, which was held jointly with fdf on 9th June 2010.  It is a pleasure tinged with regret as I personally was unable to attend, but I have received very positive feedback from the event and am convinced that the presentations will be of great interest.  In “ Reaching and Responding to Employers”, Adrian Evans summarises the context in which HE is being encouraged to work more closely with employers, and he extends this to demonstrate Teeside University’s approaches in “Getting the offer right”.  Renata D Eyres outlines the approach of the University of Salford take in “”Engaging with Employers: getting the people right” and Celia Moran tackles the more technical issues of collaboration with employers in “”Getting the systems and costing right”.  I hope they are of use to all members and look forward to more CVU seminars in 2010/11 which we will endeavour to make of equal interest and relevance.

James Winter
Chair of the CVU

Seminar Presentations

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Tuesday, 9th February 2010 - Working with Private Providers - The Tavistock Room, Woburn House, London

The seminar covered some of the key issues that Universities and Private Providers needed to consider when seeking to work together. Speakers covered the following topics; QAA requirements regarding collaborative provision, HEI and private provider perspectives on collaborative arrangements, and discussions regarding best practice.

The seminar was open to both CVU members and BAC-accredited institutions.

This was a joint seminar with the British Accreditation Council.

Seminar Presentations

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Revision to Section 2 of the Code of Practice: Collaborative provision, Flexible and Distributed Learning (including e-learning) - Amplified Version (2010)

Seminar held 17th January 2010

Venue: Woburn House, London

Presentation - Sarah Butler (ppt)
Workshop Handout [PDF]

 

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