Guest speaker on the 13th of February

In today's lecture we had Olive Hopker. She is the head of planning and development. She came into talk to us about Collaboration -v- Competition. Before she went on about this she gave us a handout which had examples of Government Statements. Some of these included statements from schools/Fe Sector and Leighton Andrews. When she moved onto the main subject she went onto list some examples of current collaboration and competition and their benefits. Here are some examples from both.


Examples
Collaboration 
-External Examiner
-Validation Panel Membership - this means that the course has been approved
-Research Projects
-Library access
-ICT


Competition
-Student recruitment
-League tables
-Research funding
-Staff recruitment
-Development funding
-Student places


Benefits
Collaboration 
-Shared expertise and knowledge
-Greater efficiency
-Cost saving
-Greater effectiveness
-Value of 'external eye'


Competition
-Promotes efforts to do better
-Provides choice of alternative products/services


She then went onto discuss the following topics
-HEI  -(Higher Education Institute)
-Regional dimension to the Planning and Delivery of Higher Education