How to lose friends and turn people against you. Organisational development tools: what they are and how we use them in higher education

This paper is based on a keynote speech delivered to the AUA Annual Conference, Belfast, April 2006     

Mind the Gap

This is the first part of Professor Eastwood’s paper given as the AUA Annual Guest Lecture on 24 October 2007.     

Markets,models and metrics in higher education

This paper is based on a Keynote lecture delivered at the AUA Annual Conference, Promoting excellence in HE Management, at the University of Nottingham, 2–4 April 2007.     

Redundancies,re‐organisations,transfers and mergers in the higher education sector: Employment law and human resources aspects

This is part one of a paper based on a Keynote presentation delivered at the AUA Annual Conference, Promoting excellence in HE Management, at the University of Nottingham, 2–4 April 2007.     

Perspectiveuk

This paper is based on a Keynote presentation delivered at the AUA Annual Conference at the University of Nottingham in April 2007.     

Managing modern universities

This is the second part of a paper based on one delivered at the AUA Annual Conference, Promoting Excellence in HE Management, at the University of Nottingham, 2–4 April 2007. It continues discussion of the application of employment legislation to university restructuring exercises, and in particular, the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) Regulations 2006, which appeared in the previous issue of perspectives. The application of these rules to transfers of departments and courses between universities is considered here.     

New Labour and higher education

This paper is the second part of an edited version of a Keynote Presentation delivered at the 2006 AUA Annual Conference at Queen’s University Belfast on 11 April. The first part was published in perspectives 10.3 in July 2006.

In the Presentation Sir David commented on three areas of unfinished business with which New Labour has struggled; in the first paper he considered the funding and organisation of the sector, and concluded with the question: ‘What will this mean for expansion and fairness?’; this paper concentrates on participation and social justice, and higher education and the public interest.