The Higher Education Academy

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The Higher Education Academy

• Our mission is to help institutions, discipline
  groups and all staff to provide the best possible
  learning experience for their students. 
• The Academy works with
• individual staff
• subject disciplines
• HE departments and institutions
• national policy makers

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The Higher Education Academy Business,
Management Accountancy and Finance Subject
Centre (BMAF) and Hospitality, Leisure,
Sport and Tourism Network (HLST)
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The Higher Education Academy Subject Centres

• Act as a an adviser, broker and consultant
  working with a diverse range of subject staff and
  organisations
• Provide resources
• Produce publications
• Run events
• Fund and undertake projects

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• Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance
  Subject Centre (BMAF)

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Whos Who?

• Prof Jean Woodall Director
• Steve Probert Assistant Director
• Dr Inge Struder-Hill Academic Developer /
  Senior Lecturer
• Richard Atfield Academic Developer / Senior
  Lecturer
• Karen Pettit Administrator
• Anne Harrap Projects and Information Officer
• Paul Radford Subject Centre Manager
• Sam French Publications Officer
• Anna Willmore Centre Administrator
• Sarah Woodward Administration Assistant

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BMAFs Organisation
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Resources and Services

• TRIBE - online resources to support learning in 7
  business disciplines, to be re-launched later
  this year
• Other databases - such as www.intute.ac.uk
• Relevant projects - information about relevant
  CETL and FDTL
• External Examiner Database
• Enquiries - responding to individual queries?
  bmaf_at_brookes.ac.uk ? 01865 485670
  www.business.heacademy.ac.uk

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Events

• National Workshop Programme workshop topics
  include assessment, employability, student
  retention, teaching international students,
  entrepreneurial learning, transition to HE,
  plagiarism, Annual Conference - 2nd to 4th May
  2007, Aston Business School Conference Centre,
  Birmingham
• HE Policy Roundtables with subject associations
  and professional bodies, supported by ABS
  (Association of Business Schools)
• Academy-funded events conferences, workshops,
  www.business.heacademy.ac.uk/events/

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Publications

• International Journal of Management Education
  published three times per year
• E-News Bulletin - monthly
• BMAF Magazine - first issue due March 2007
• Enhancing graduate employability (2006)
  www.business.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/

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Projects

• BMAF Sponsored
• Teaching Research and Development Grants
  approx. 50,000 available for 10-15 grants p.a.
• Student Essay Competition - 250 chance of
  laptop
• HEA sponsored
• Part-Time Lecturers joint with Health Science
  Practice
• Piloting and evaluating e-learning materials
• Internationalisation and Employability
• Building links with relevant CETLs, FDTLs

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The Future BMAF beyond BEST

• Supporting individual staff and networking
• and also -
• Links with Deans, Heads of Depts, via ABS
• Focus on individual disciplines and professions
• Collaboration with other Subject Centres
• Special Interest Groups HRD, Entrepreneurial
  Learning, Internationalisation, Employability,
  Accountancy Education, Marketing

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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and TourismSubject
Centre (HLST)
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Whos Who?

• Clive Robertson Director
• Nina Becket Assistant Director
• Patsy Kemp Academic Developer / Senior Lecturer
• Terri Morris Projects and Information Officer
• Dorota Maton Administration Co-ordinator
• Richard Gill Learning Technologist
• Paul Radford Subject Centre Manager
• Sam French Publications Officer
• Anna Willmore Centre Administrator
• Sarah Woodward Administrative Assistant

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Resources

• All on the web at http//www.hlst.heacademy.ac.uk/
  resources/resources.html
• Catalogue of new publications
• Resource guides incl. on Employability
• Case studies incl. web version of Enhancing
  Employability book
• JoHLSTE (online journal)
• LINK 2007
• - 18 Academic Integrity (March 2007)
• - 19 Education for Sustainable Development
  (Summer 2007)

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Events

• Annual Conference 17/18 September 2007 at
  Missenden Abbey Management Centre in
  Buckinghamshire theme The Olympics
• Pedagogic Research Development Day,
  Bournemouth, 28 March 2007
• Forum for New Staff held in January/February each
  year at the National College for School
  Leadership, Nottingham

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Pedagogic research funding

• All details of how to bid and forms will be
  available on website at the end of March
• Briefing sessions on how and when to bid plus
  criteria for success will be part of Pedagogic
  Research Day in Bournemouth on 28 March 2007.

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Making the Connection
BMAF bmaf_at_brookes.ac.uk www.business.heacademy.ac
.uk 01865 485670

• HLST
• hlst_at_brookes.ac.uk
• www.hlst.heacademy.ac.uk
• 01865 483861