Events
Society for Research into HE (SRHE) Annual Conference
8-10th December 2009
Celtic Manor, Newport, South Wales
i-graduate Director William Archer presented a paper at the SRHE Annual Conference on Wednesday 9th December, entitled 'A question of time: exploring perceptions of contact hours through the largest annual study of international students'.
In summer 2009, i-graduate's International Student Barometer captured perceptions from over 50,000 students regarding the time spent on supervised and unsupervised study. Responding to recent challenges to the sector regarding study hours, this session paper reported and compared contact hours for formal and supervised study, with the addition of a 'Goldilocks measure'; whether students think this is too little, too much or just right, analysed nationally by field, level of study and nationality.
For further information about the session, please visit the SRHE conference website.
EAIE (European Association of International Education) Annual Conference
16-19th September 2009
Madrid
i-graduate representatives were involved at two sessions at the annual EAIE Conference, which took place in Madrid in September. Click here for further information about the conference.
'Marketing employability: recruiting for tomorrow'
Higher education is not exempt from a payback culture. The product we sell may be 'education' but the prospect of employability after graduation is a decisive selling point. We have to target different groups of students and their intercultural diversity in our marketing. Experts from the UK, Australia and The Netherlands provided marketing tools and strategies to help establish your institution as a vital stepping stone into tomorrow's world of higher education and employment.
'StudentPulse: understanding tomorrow's students today'
i-graduate's StudentPulse research examines the perceptions amongst prospective students in established and emerging markets across the globe. This sessionl examined the research and answer questions such as: How do prospective international students perceive their growing range of options? Which considerations currently have the biggest influence on their decisions?
AGCAS Biennial Conference
10th September 2009
Brunel University
The seminar 'Improving the international stduent experience' focused on the work being done by AGCAS, NASES, HECSU, i-graduate and UKCISA both independently and under the banner of the government's PMI2 projects. William Archer described the latest findings of the International Student Barometer and these were linked to the wide range of projects AGCAS and HE careers practitioners are carrying out to support international students and graduates. Click here for more information.
The Association of Business Schools: Developing Global Citizens
3rd September 2009
Leeds Business School
Will Archer spoke at the ABS Conference in Leeds on the theme of Global Employability. The sessionl explored the importance of global employability for business school graduates.
Click here for further information.
CASE Europe Annual Conference
27th August 2009
Liverpool
Will Archer joined alumni specialists at the CASE Europe Annual Conference to discuss approaches to measuring alumni engagement and explore how benchmarking surveys can be used to track alumni progress, strengthen communication and reinforce connections.
The panel session invited debate about different alumni surveying methods, including i-graduate's Alumni Barometer. Topics included which alumni can and should be interviewed, how best to conduct alumni surveys and disseminate the results, the benefits gained from doing an alumni tracking study, as well as how to join those already involved.
Benchmarking and attitude surveys - what does it all mean?
- William Archer, Director, International Graduate Insight Group
- Karen Brady, Head of Alumni Relations, University of Liverpool
- Judith Raab, Head of Kepler Society, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
- Sue Rees, Alumni Relations Manager, University of Ulster
Chaired by: Ian Moore, Deputy Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Coventry University
As part of the panel session, William introduced key topline findings from the Alumni Barometer run in early 2009, to illustrate the data being collected through this survey instrument.
In 2008 and 2009, 15 institutions in the UK and Europe have adopted the Alumni Barometer process to receive benchmarked data, with feedback collected from over 33,000 international and domestic alumni.
Click here for further information.
CHE Marketing Conference
18th June 2009
DAAD, Bonn, Germany
Nannette Ripmeester, i-graduate's Director of Operations EMEA, spoke at the CHE Marketing Conference in Bonn on 18th June, about the use of marketing data and how to make the next step in international student recruitment. The key focus of Nannette's talk was implementation of marketing knowledge into the HE institutions structure, supported by European examples from i-graduate's international practice.
For more information about the event, please contact info@i-graduate.org.
UKCISA Annual Conference
1st - 3rd July 2009
University of Warwick
i-graduate Director William Archer gave the opening plenary at the UKCISA Annual Conference on the 1st July. The presentation, entitled 'Understanding and supporting international students through the experience: best practice insights' set the context for the conference with a broad overview of the current recruitment market - including perceptions of the UK in the main source countries.
Using data from the world's largest study of international students