Conferences & Seminars
This page includes details of upcoming conferences and seminars either organised by The Knowledge Partnership or including members of staff as speakers. For similar details for our Asian and Australian offices, please visit the respective websites.
Upcoming
To Boldly Go: Advancing university reputation through global interaction
The World 100 Reputation Network International Higher Education Conference 2012, Washington DC,
15-16th May Conference; 17-18th May Study Tour
You are warmly invited to join us for the next World 100 conference, being held in Washington in May this year, hosted at American University, renowned for its prowess in public affairs and connectivity to Capitol Hill. Our global theme, To Boldly Go, will bring together great speakers and delegates from other world-class universities, giving you the chance to discuss global partnerships, as well as current practical techniques for advancing reputation and international profile. With accommodation in buzzing Georgetown, and a conference dinner at American University, this will be an occasion to be remembered. And for members of the network, our unique study tour visits the White House Press Office, the University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University. Hope you can join us!
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i-MAP Seminar in Leeds
Best practice in new course development and programme portfolio management
27th March 2012 at The Knowledge Partnership Offices, The Round Foundry Media Centre, Foundry Street, Leeds, LS11 5QP
This event has now been cancelled.
Any institutions still interested in hearing the findings of the project should contact david.roberts@theknowledgepartnership.com who can arrange an on-campus workshop for your institution.
Your chance to engage with speakers from The Knowledge Partnership at UK and International Conferences
David Roberts is speaking at the SET-TALK conference (for science and engineering) in September 2012 on League tables influence the ability of universities to attract students and investment. How have they affected the higher education landscape?
You can find full details of the event at: http://eurovent.co/conferences-event.php?eid=212.
Sarah Beresford is speaking at the CIM higher education conference in Manchester on Marketing the UK Higher Education Sector in International Markets.
More information: http://www.cimhemig.co.uk/events/article/id/8
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i-MAP: Managing your Course Portfolio for Market Success: A National HE Conference
Thursday 17th November 2011, London SE1
On Thursday 17th November, 2011, The Knowledge Partnership hosted Managing your Course Portfolio for Market Success, a national HE conference, at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre on London’s South Bank.
Over 80 delegates from HEIs across the United Kingdom were in attendance as well as delegates from HEFCE and reporters from the Times Higher Education publication.
The conference disseminated the findings of the two year i-MAP Project (Innovation in the Market Assurance of Programmes), supported by HEFCE’s Leadership Governance and Management fund. The project aimed to support:
- More efficacious course development and, therefore, reduced incidences of failure by HEIs to recruit viable cohorts of students
- Improved financial sustainability in the sector due to a greater proportion of new courses achieving strong and sustained market appeal
- A more collaborative approach between academics and other professionals (e.g. marketing, quality, HR) to new course development
- Networks of HE staff with common interests in course development
For more information visit the i-MAP project website: – www.i-map.org.uk
Higher Stakes: Managing University Reputation in a Competitive World, HKU, 22-23rd June 2010
This first World 100 year’s conference at the University of Hong Kong has hopefully set the trend and high standards for an intelligence-based gathering of top university communicators and leaders. Known for excellent higher education, and for being a gateway to the East and West, the University of Hong Kong was an ideal venue for our two day international conference. Delegates also had the chance to visit either the Chinese University of Hong Kong or Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to experience the diversity and success of this distinctive part of China.
With more than 100 delegates enrolled, the conference already felt like a key point in the higher education calendar. But the presence of the two main higher education journals, The Times Higher Education and The Chronicle of Higher Education, together with The British Council and the Hong Kong Secretary for Education, showed that the World 100 group had achieved recognition and support at the highest level.
Highlights included strategic and visionary talks from the Vice-Chancellors of The University of Hong Kong, Warwick and Auckland, and a lively session on rankings. You can see more photos from the Conference on Flickr and read the press coverage here.
Discussion groups allowed time for reflection and sharing of experience, amongst some of the many directors and leaders who attended, with subjects around rankings, inspiring staff, creating a strong University brand and the pressures on Universities in an increasingly globalised environment.
For more information about the conference visit www.theworld100.com.