UCISA Exhibition Fun

This nice people at Salford Software encouraged me to sit for a while and before I knew it this had been produced:

Palestine Awareness

There is a week of awareness taking place this week which is being promoted through the Students Union. I was interested that the students were promoting a live video link at 2pm on Thursday in the Lecture theatre Student Central to other students in Gaza (at the University there). Our current student union treasurer/secretary has family, friends and long associations with Palestine but was also unfortunately detained there and there was a big campaign to get him released. The internet is changing the way that students around the world communicate and itneract and maybe it is also leading to revolutions too (Tunisia, Egypt, Libya). Where next?

Supplier Event

Attended an event in Nottingham last week which included a discussion about the future of IT in Higher Education as a result of the fees changes and perceived introduction of a more competitive versus collaborative landscape in the future. Opinions were divided on the similarities and differences between HE/public sector and private sector from an IT perspective. The discussion was pre-faced by a fascinating informal presentation from a senior IT guy in Next who had previously worked in the sector at both an "old" and a "new" University as well as in other public and private sector roles. He was kind enough to share the notes he used as a basis for the main themes.