HUMANE Seminar
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Friday 7 to Saturday 8 April, 2017
 

The leadership of people, knowledge and change: the contribution of ‘the administration’ to institutional sustainability

Registration is now open!

As featured in our latest eNewsletter the first HUMANE Seminar of 2017 will be hosted by the University of Rome Tor Vergata and will take place at the beautiful 16th century Villa Mondragone located in the hills of Rome in Frascati. Don't miss out on this excellent opportunity - register now

As higher education institutions seek to adapt during turbulent times, the narrative surrounding the contribution the so called ‘administration’ makes to institutional sustainability has undergone dramatic change

Whereas once the focus was a one-dimensional lens on cost and value-for-money, institutions increasingly adopt a multi-dimensional focus on customer or client satisfaction, quality of outcomes, effectiveness and true economic efficiency, in shaping the future focus of their student, teaching and research support operations.

Nor are these new approaches to HE administrative support and institutional sustainability solely underpinned by purely technical interventions, important as process re-engineering, organisational structuring and technology are; contemporary approaches to leadership, talent development and acquisition, and cross-functional team work are now central features of many institutions’ administrative reform agendas.

Our seminar brings together an impressive array of speakers with first hand experience of leading and managing change in their institutions to affect this seismic shift from passive, reactive support services to future focused, pro-active, well led professional services, actively contributing to their institutions’ future sustainability as vibrant intellectual communities of students and staff.

Speakers and Themes (subject to change):

Prof. Michele Bugliesi, Rector, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (IT)
- Internationalisation strategy and institutional sustainability: choices and challenges at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

drs. Dries Berendsen, Director Real Estates and Campus, Utrecht University (NL) with Ove Botnevik, Director of Estates and Facilities Management, University of Bergen (NO)
- Leadership and change in achieving space efficiency at Utrecht University: a case study

Dr. Enrico Lodolo, Director of IT, University of Bologna (IT)
- The digital revolution comes to Europe's oldest university: digitisation strategy and sustainability at the University of Bologna

Mag. Joachim Ninaus, Director Central Services, University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz (AT)
- The Sustainable Universities Programme initiative Austria

Prof. Stefano Cordiner, Director of Energy Management, University of Rome Tor Vergata (IT)
- Leadership and change for energy efficiency at the University of Rome Tor Vergata: or, how I got a university to love a sustainable environment policy

John Worne, COO Arts and Sciences Faculties, King's College London (UK)
- World café

 

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Information
Who Can Attend?

The HUMANE Seminar in Frascati, Rome is open to:

 

HUMANE Members

• HUMANE Members
• HUMANE Members can also attend with one or more colleagues
• HUMANE Members can also send colleagues from their University

WSAN Members

• Winter School Alumni can attend all HUMANE events

EFMD and EUA Members

• Members of EFMD and EUA can attend all HUMANE events

Other Higher Education professionals may apply to attend here

Seminar Fees

The Seminar Fee is € 550 . This includes 2 lunches on Friday and Saturday plus any social programme.

Accompanying people are charged at € 160, this includes lunches, dinners and the social programme but no admittance to the seminar sessions.

Upon registration you will receive a confirmation letter and invoice. Please wait until you receive the invoice before arranging the payment.

Accommodation and Practical Information

WIll be sent to participants when available.
 
Provisional Seminar Schedule

Friday 7 April:
Registration and lunch from 12:00 / Seminar sessions 13:30 to 17:30 / HUMANE Seminar Dinner 20:00
Saturday 8 April:
Seminar sessions 09:00 to 13:00 / lunch / social programme and dinner

Seminar Website

Information can be found here

Register
Please register online at: online registration

HUMANE Membership Survey: Win a free 2017 seminar place!

Dear Colleagues,

HUMANE wants to develop its events and programmes to better meet the needs and priorities of our members. As a starting point for planning future events, we would welcome your feedback on activities and themes which may be of interest to you. In addition, we want to know what works best for you in terms of the timing, location and format of events. We would be grateful if you could spend 10 minutes to complete a short survey for us.

The survey is in three parts: Leadership Themes, Programme/Event Delivery Preferences; and Barriers to Participation.

Your participation will help us to design programmes that support you professionally and ensure that our events are interesting and relevant.

Take the survey

To thank you for taking the time to complete the survey we are offering you the chance win a free 2017 HUMANE Seminar place*. All you have to do is to enter your email address at the end of the survey. The winner will be announced in the last week of February.

The survey will remain open until Friday, 3 February 2017.

Best wishes,

Esa Hamalainen
Chairman of HUMANE
Director of Administration, University of Helsinki

HUMANE Contacts www.humane.eu
Esa Hamalainen: chairman(at)humane.eu
Ian Creagh: strategyconsultant(at)humane.eu
Tim Evans: secretariat(at)humane.eu

 

*Competition rules
- the prize is one free entry to a 2017 HUMANE Seminar (spring or autumn seminar)
- travel and accommodation is not included
- open only to HUMANE Members and to be used by the named HUMANE member
- no cash alternatives
- only one entry per person

HUMANE Seminar

University of London Friday 4 to Saturday 5 November, 2016

Attainment, Access and Affordability in Higher Education: system-level and institutional responses in the early 21st century

Additional Thursday Afternoon Workshop Added

SHARED IT SERVICES, SERVICE INNOVATION & NEW OPERATING MODELS

In response to requests from members involved in reviewing their IT operations, the University of London and King’s College London will jointly host a workshop on Thursday afternoon, the 3rd of November, on developments in these two institutions in shared services, service innovation and the implementation of new IT operating models.

The workshop agenda, is as follows:

1. Recent developments in shared IT services at the University of London

• Cyber Security
• Virtual Learning Environments
• Cloud hosting

2. Recent developments in shared IT services at King’s College London

• The Slough Data Centre
• High Performance Computing
• Public/private partnerships in e-education

3. Service innovations at University of London and King's College London

• KCL's Cornwall Service Centre
• UoL's Computer Centre (ULCC): recent innovations and developments

4. Innovations in service management and delivery

Commencing at 13.00 with a sandwich lunch and ending around 17.00, senior IT professionals at the University of London and King’s College London will conduct an interactive, informal workshop, sharing their honest experiences and observations. This workshop is a part of our HUMANE Seminar in London, included in the seminar fee. Please note your attendance when registering online.

Main Seminar
Keynote Speakers

According to the Economist, the global tertiary-enrolment ratio – the share of the student-age population at university – went up from 14% to 32% in the two decades to 2012; in that time, the number of countries with a ratio of more than half rose from five to 54. University enrolment is growing faster even than demand for that ultimate consumer good, the car.

However, both market-based and state funding models of satisfying this burgeoning demand have had mixed success at best in getting under-represented groups into higher education. And even when they do, the attainment gap between higher and lower socio-economic groups is still significant, despite a generation of social inclusion policies.

An impressive group of keynote speakers will help us to take on these big issues, including:

Prof. Bertrand Monthubert President, Campus France (FR) Reading the Currents: the outlook for HE access and attainment in France

Baroness Alison Wolf Professor of Public Sector Management, King's College London (UK) A Bleak Future? Universal tertiary education, and what happens if we get it wrong

Rt. Hon. Charles Clarke Former UK Education and Home Secretary (UK) The Political Economy of Higher Education Financing Policy

Prof. Les Ebdon Director of the Office for Fair Access to Higher Education (UK) Why universities should do more to promote social mobility

Dr. Michael Harms Director of Communications, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (DE) No Fees, No Problem? Access to and affordability of German Higher Education

Alexandra Rosenbach Chief Strategy Advisor Internationalisation, Maastricht University (NL) Money Talks: access, affordability and attainment in Dutch Higher Education: creating an inspiring and diverse international classroom at Maastricht University

With additional presentations from:

Prof. Bo-Anders Jönsson - Pro-Dean, University of Lund (SE) - Recent developments in higher education access and educational attainment policy in Sweden: a University of Lund perspective

Andy Moss - Senior Vice President, Pearson Education (UK) - Transforming educational attainment: innovations and developments in the for profit HE sector

Nadine Almanasfi and Aaron Porter - Post-graduate student and former student president, and former National Union of Students President (UK) - A student representative’s perspective of the access and attainment agenda and what the future holds

Doreen Thompson, Billy Reed and KCL students - Widening Participation Unit, King’s College London (UK) - Widening Participation and social inclusion strategy at King’s College London

Download the Seminar Flyer

The flyer is available here.

Register Online

Register here.

Provisional Programme

Is available here. Please note - content is subject to change.

Information

Who Can Attend?

The HUMANE Seminar in London is open to:

HUMANE Members

• HUMANE Members
• HUMANE Members can also attend with one or more colleagues
• HUMANE Members can also send colleagues from their University

WSAN Members

• Winter School Alumni can attend all HUMANE events

EFMD and EUA Members

Plus other Higher Education professionals may apply to attend here

Seminar Fees

The Seminar Fee is € 495 . This includes lunch on Friday and Saturday, the HUMANE Dinner on Friday.

Accompanying people are charged at € 75, this includes lunch on Friday and Saturday plus the HUMANE Dinner on Friday but no admittance to the seminar sessions.

Upon registration you will receive a confirmation letter and invoice. Please wait until you receive the invoice before arranging the payment.

Accommodation and Practical Information

Will be sent to participants upon registration.

Provisional Seminar Schedule

Thursday 3 November:
IT Workshop lunch from 13:00

Friday 4 November:
Registration and lunch from 12:00 / Seminar sessions 14:00 to 17:00 // HUMANE Seminar Dinner 19:30

Saturday 5 November:
Seminar sessions 09:00 to 13:00 / lunch

Seminar Website

Information can be found here

Register

Please register online at: online registration