JISC BCE at the Higher Education Academy Conference
The recent Higher Education Academy Conference which took place in Manchester included a session on the JISC Business and Community Engagement Programme. The workshop, ‘JISC Business and Community Engagement: Supporting a professionalised approach to managing partnerships and engaging employers’ provided an opportunity for delegates to gain an overview of the BCE programme, and to learn more about the work of three projects within the BCE programme with a focus on employer engagement. The programme includes a dedicated Employer Engagement work-package, within the ’Enhancing Knowledge Management’ stream, as well as other work-packages, for example in CRM and online collaborative tools, designed to support and enhance institutional management of collaborations and relationships with employers and other external parties.
Nye Nduche and Nick Holt presented the CRM4UNI project led by Birkbeck College. Their CRM Analytics Tool supports centralised employer engagement and strategic decision-making in the provision of personalised training/CPD to strategic business partners.
Stephen O’Regan from Roehampton University introduced the the FutureSkills pilot, a joint project by two West London Universities, Roehampton University and Thames Valley University, together with Ealing Hammersmith and West London College, focussed on defining how collaborative provision to the vibrant Creative Industries sector of West London will work in the post Leitch Review environment of employee-led demand.
Finally, Jacquie Kelly from JISC infoNet presented one of the projects led by JISC Services, Trialling of Online Collaborative Tools for BCE. Jacquie gave an overview of the eight trials of collaborative tools which are taking place across a variety of institutions and collaboration contexts. The aim of the trials is to enhance and empower BCE collaboration among practitioners, between institutions and between institutions and external partners.
JISC is also funding a portfolio of projects, managed by Ruth Drysdale in e-Learning, which are designed to enhance institution-wide innovation in support of employer engagement, lifelong learning and workforce development
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