For many, crowdfunding is old hat. It’s been around for 20 years in its modern form although I’ve found examples from the 1850s and even a reference to the base of the Statue of Liberty being funded through crowdfunding. We already have some examples of crowdfunding at YSJ. The SU […]

Crowdfunding

During the coming months, ADD will be running two masterclasses for staff to attend. The first will be hosted by Corony Edwards who will talk about ‘Measuring Learning Gain in Higher Education’ on the 28th March. Sally Brown will host the second and discuss ‘Assessment to Support Retention’ on the 26th […]

Masterclasses

The final session of the day was given by Jerry Allen who is Deputy Director of Enterprise at Greenwich University. He addressed the subject of ‘the future of social enterprise in a post-Brexit world’. He began with an amusing anecdote of a twitter comment asking if anybody could explain what […]

EEUK Event at Greenwich (Part 3)

There were so many good speakers at the day that it is worth summarising some more wise words from the workshop. One particularly fiery speaker was the CEO Partas which is a social enterprise in Dublin. He works in an area of high unemployment – up to 50% in places. […]

EEUK Event in Greenwich (Part 2)

Another week, another conference or workshop. This time in Greenwich near the historic observatory at the i3Centre (Innovation, Imagination, Inspiration). Check it out at http://www.i3centre.com/ . They have, amongst other things, an Enterprise Challenge that is attracting hundreds of student applications and a well-developed incubator. Although Greenwich is steeped in […]

EEUK Event in Greenwich

Talking about Teaching 2017 took place on Friday 20 January 2017. The theme was York St John Graduate Attributes. The day started with a welcome and introduction from Professor Alyson Tobin, Deputy Vice Chancellor, and Mandy Asghar, Director of Academic Development. The Keynote was delivered by Higher Education Consultant, Helen Beetham and […]

Talking About Teaching

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Social accounting and social auditing are now mainstream activities in the world of social enterprises and those organisations contributing to the social good. Essentially, York St John underwent the process only last May to achieve the Social Enterprise Gold Mark but we need to embed our own auditing systems in […]

Social Audit Network workshop Liverpool

10 January 2017, London The meeting included two presentations: one by Gordon McKenzie (GuildHE) on the developments regarding the Higher Education Bill and the other by Steven Hill (HEFCE) on the proposed changes for REF 2021. The first presentation provided the context for the second one. Among the key points […]

CREST/GuildHE REF Consultation Meeting

I’ve just returned from an excellent conference at Aston University. Under the aegis of SEFORIS (Social Enterprise as a Force for more Inclusive and Innovative Societies), the conference presented its findings from a survey of over 1000 social enterprises in nine countries. The pan-European project runs from 2014-17. See an […]

SEFORIS

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On Wednesday 7 December the Academic Development Directorate ran a Masterclass with Dr David Roberts from Loughborough University. David has been conducting research for a number of years on Multimedia Learning (MML) and how to create more effective methods of large group teaching. David argues that the ‘orthodoxy of text’ […]

Visionary Learning: ADD Masterclass write-up