We had some great news last month, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education referenced a number of our (Jisc) resources in its latest publication – UK Quality Code for Higher Education Chapter 4: Enabling student development and achievement. Underpinned by eight indicators of sound practice the quality code sets out the following expectation: Higher [...]
Professional Development for Business and Community Engagement – FREE Embedding Workshops
Jisc are pleased to announce a series of workshops based around the recently launched Professional Development Diagnostic Tool for Business and Community Engagement, which was developed to address the needs of the increasing number of staff in education and research who have new collaborative and enterprising aspects to their roles, which require a range of [...]
Pi Day Live – Jisc BCE helps to support international public engagement event
Thursday 14 March (3.14) was Pi Day, an annual celebration of the mathematical constant used the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (approximately 3.14159) Marc Dobson from the Jisc Advance BCE Team joined colleagues from Jisc Netskills to support an international online event delivered by the University of Oxford called Pi [...]
Relationship Management infoKit unveiled at CETIS13
One of the Business and Community Engagement (BCE) programme’s latest outputs, the Relationship Management infoKit, will be unveiled at the Jisc CETIS Conference today. In the coming years the UK higher and further education sectors will continue to adapt to momentous changes in their markets, growing influence of web technologies and rapidly evolving regulatory environment. In [...]
Democratising knowledge and digital engagement: is engagement coming of age?
December 2012 saw the customary end of year engagement jamboree in the form of the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement’s (NCCPE) annual conference ENGAGE. ENGAGE is usually a packed, lively and uplifting event and this year’s conference proved no exception, despite the decidedly non-uplifting nature of the sector’s struggles in ‘Responding to Change’ (the [...]
