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HEaTED East Midlands Regional Network Event - 11 June 2014

10th April 2014 11:38 by Jasmine Hinton

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HEaTED East Midlands Regional Network Event.

Nottingham Trent University, Wednesday 11 June 2014.

Venue: Nottingham Trent University. The Adams Room, Nottingham Conference Centre, City Campus.

Parking: The advice on parking is to use the tram park and ride from Phoenix Park: http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/parkandride.

Audience: Technicians, Technical Managers, Technical Team Leaders and Staff Development Professionals from all disciplines across the East Midlands Region.

Brief: The HEaTED East Midlands Regional Network provides a forum for discussion and communication between, Technical Staff, Technical Managers and Staff Development/HR colleagues from across and beyond the Region. The Network promotes training events, the sharing of knowledge, skills and best practice amongst Technical Professionals and increased awareness of the opportunities and facilities provided by HEaTED and member institutions. At this time of significant change in the HE/FE environment maintaining a focus on high quality provision of services and taking staff forward through these changes becomes increasingly important.

Objective: To establish a core community of well-networked Technical staff from all levels to lead, manage and deliver services and support to academia for the future.

Agenda:

9:00am    Arrival, coffee and registration

9:30am    Introductory Activity - Steve Taylor, HEaTED East Midlands Regional Network Coordinator & University of Derby

10:30pm    HEaTED Update and new CATTS Resource - Dr Rachel Crossley, HEaTED Head of Programme. All the latest Regional and National updates from HEaTED, including how HEaTED connects with Professional Registration.

11:00am    TECHNICIAN, TEACHER or BOTH? - Steve Taylor
What is “teaching” for you?
What is “demonstrating” for you?
How does your institution define teaching?
What can HEaTED do to help?

12:15pm    Lunch and networking

12:45pm    Feedback and notice of future meetings

1:00pm    Tours of NTU City Centre Arts Facilities

3:30pm    End and departure

A printable version of the agenda is available to download below.

The HEaTED East Midlands Online Community Group

The HEaTED Online Groups support the HEaTED Regional Networks. Please get involved, start a topic and contribute to a discussion before and after the Regional Network Event. Technical staff from HEaTED member Institutions can access this facility for free, just register on the main HEaTED website and then the Online Groups if you have not done so already.

If you are not able to attend this event but would like to contribute to the items discussed please visit the HEaTED East Midlands Online Group HERE and reply to the topic set up for this event.

If you are not able to attend this event but would like to contribute to the items highlighted for discussion please reply to this topic.

**This is a FREE event but you must complete the booking form on the HEaTED website to reserve your place. Refreshments and lunch will be provided**

 

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peteb (not verified)

I have booked for this event

Just wondered who else was going to make it?

 

Do we have an agenda yet at all?

I would like to mention that at Lboro we had the first University Technician Conference in Feb 2014.

There seems to be more of a lead with noting the work that techs do.

Main concern is where is all this heading without substantial funding for courses and training.

I am a specialist in Psychology and have a Fellow of HEA and Graduate Member of BPS, but still find I am creeping into IT work.

We have yearly PDRs which try and identify areas of opportunities but again where is the money?

peteb (not verified)

Do we have an agenda yet at all?

I would like to mention that at Lboro we had the first University Technician Conference in Feb 2014.

There seems to be more of a lead with noting the work that techs do.

Main concern is where is all this heading without substantial funding for courses and training.

I am a specialist in Psychology and have a Fellow of HEA and Graduate Member of BPS, but still find I am creeping into IT work.

We have yearly PDRs which try and identify areas of opportunities but again where is the money?

Steve Taylor (not verified)

Hi Peter,

 

Glad you are getting somewhere at Loughborough.

 

We are struggling a little with the agenda but we are hoping to have it updated later today to include discussion on Technicians and teaching and also there is a strong possibility of an optional tour of the NTU arts facilities afterwards.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

 

Steve

AndyKowalski (not verified)

[quote=5795]

I have booked for this event

Just wondered who else was going to make it?

 

Do we have an agenda yet at all?

I would like to mention that at Lboro we had the first University Technician Conference in Feb 2014.

There seems to be more of a lead with noting the work that techs do.

Main concern is where is all this heading without substantial funding for courses and training.

I am a specialist in Psychology and have a Fellow of HEA and Graduate Member of BPS, but still find I am creeping into IT work.

We have yearly PDRs which try and identify areas of opportunities but again where is the money?

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AndyKowalski (not verified)

I will be going too.

I have also highlighted the problems of tecnicians lack of recognition via MyRSC,. Since New year we  have lost 4 technicians from our departmentand 2 have been replaced so far.

Bottom line is poor pay and lack of progression within department.

Hay scheme in place re HR issues but impossible to get upgrades contribution points and  big bone of contention as regaeds as getting on.

Would like to know how other departemnt sin other Universities cope with staff retention.

 

Andy

 

 

Steve Taylor (not verified)

Hi Andy,

 

Nice to catch up with you yesterday at NTU.

Retention is a problem for many of us. I'm about to lose a technician after 43 years of service which adds the problem of succession as well.

I hope that the notions of professional registration and increased training and recognition of the value of technicians will help in both retention and succession problems. Time will tell.

 

Steve