U21 events at Glasgow

U21 Open House Event for U21 Northern hemisphere partners - Spring 2013

Glasgow will host a 2-day Open House event for U21 members in April 2013. This will focus on best practice identified by the International Student Barometer and in particular on international student integration. Partners will be invited to co-facilitate events and to share good practice models.

For further information please contact Director of Student Services Christine Lowther at Christine.Lowther@glasgow.ac.uk or U21 Coordinator Sarah Ward at Sarah.Ward@glasgow.ac.uk

U21 HR Research into Academic Workforce Planning

Glasgow is leading a bid by U21 HR group seeking funding for a project to research Academic Workfore Planning. The work will highlight issues around Leadership and Talent Management and research findings are planned to be published to coincide with U21 AGM at Glasgow in 2014.

U21 Lifelong Learning & Research Workshop14 and 15 May 2012

Lifelong learning driving universities’ ambitions for advanced teaching and research? Dare we? Can we? Let’s!

50 delegates from seven U21 universities and other institutions attended the U21 Lifelong Learning workshop on 14th and 15th May, chaired jointly by Professor Susan Geertshuis (Auckland) and Professor Mike Osborne (Glasgow). U21 participants attended from UBC, UCD, Tec de Monterrey, Nottingham, Queensland, Auckland and Glasgow. The workshop theme of ‘Lifelong Learning driving universities’ ambitions? Dare we? Can we? Let’s!’ reflects recent discussion around the need for universities to recognise their contribution and responsibility to the regions in which they are located. Delegates welcomed Professor Geertshuis’ invitation to challenge perceptions of lifelong learning and to explore and claim a more central role for lifelong learning within university strategy. Workshop participants heard about innovative models to enrich the student body fromGlasgow, Tec de Monterrey and Queensland, as well as examples of successful interface between universities and their local communities through business innovation.