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Day One: TUESDAY 10TH AUGUST 2010
| Day One | Day Two |
8:30
Registration and welcome coffee
9:00
Opening remarks from Chair
Tim Bambrick, Principal Consultant, Student Management Systems, TechnologyOne
9:10
Redefining strategy
  • Simplifying the tertiary education funding system
  • Democratising administration
  • Strengthening quality and accountability
  • Improving interface between schools and tertiary education institutions
Invited: Hon Steven Joyce MP, Minister for Tertiary Education
SECTOR PROFILES/STATE OF PLAY
9:40
Policy and Regulation: Impact and implications – High trust, high accountability, low compliance cost
  • Universities
Speaker TBA
  • Polytechnics
Dr Peter Brothers, CEO, Manukau Institute of Technology
  • Wananga
Bentham Ohia,Te Pouhere, Te Wananga o Aotearoa
Dr Shane Edwards, Kaihautu Marautanga, Te Wananga o Aotearoa
  • ITOs
Speaker TBA
11:15
Morning tea
POLICY & GOVERNANCE
11:35
The Investment Plan – Benchmarking prudent operations and meeting the operational and financial KPIs
David Nicholson, Director – Tertiary Investment and Monitoring, Tertiary Education Commission
12:15
The economic climate and its challenges for higher education
  • Near term economic performance, risks, and long term fiscal pressures
  • Policy responses including the tertiary education strategy
  • Implications and strategies for providers
Jean-Pierre de Raad, CEO, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER)
12:55
Lunch
TEACHING AND LEARNING
1:55
Responding to change: redefining learning and teaching strategy
  • Flexibility of curriculum to enhance the learning experience
  • Learning spaces: Implications for teachers and learners
  • Delivering education that is research informed and workforce ready
  • Academic development in the new tertiary policy environment
Professor Rob Allen, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Auckland University of Technology
INTERNATIONALISATION
2:35
International relations – Building the reputation of New Zealand Higher Education
  • Where does New Zealand stand in the international market?
  • Balancing economics with standards of provision
  • International collaboration – Advancing research and scholarship
  • Implications on internationalisation on quality and design of curriculum and on the learning environment
  • Issues for management of international students
Professor Doug Sutton, Deputy Vice Chancellor, The University of Waikato
3:15
Afternoon tea
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
3:35
Student experience through the student engagement Lens
  • Focussing internally - Leveraging student engagement for quality conversations
  • External focus – National and international comparisons
  • Implications for participation, retention and completion
  • Looking ahead
Professor Sheelagh Matear, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Lincoln University
PRIVATE EDUCATION
4:15
The role of private tertiary education in a dynamic and cohesive sector
  • Issues for improving sector performance
  • Accountability and continuing improvement for educational outcomes
  • The Targeted Review of Qualifications
  • Engagement across all tertiary education providers
Edwige Fava, President, New Zealand Association of Private Education Providers
5:00
End of conference day one
 
Day Two: WEDNESDAY, 11TH AUGUST, 2010
| Day One | Day Two |
8:30
Morning tea and networking
9:00
Opening remarks from Chair
TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING
9:10
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE
Obstacles on the quest for digital citizens
  • Developing the entire IT environment at the UCLA
  • How it is interpreted/embraced differently by students, faculty and staff
  • The issues and challenges encountered amongst institutional, legal, technical, and behavioral factors
  • What we've found and how we hope to address issues
  • Accountability – have we figured out what that means?
Dr Larry Loeher, Associate Vice Provost and Director, Instructional Development, University of California, Los Angeles
9:50
Collaborative approaches to software solutions for the Higher Education sector
Brad Smith, Solutions Manager - Education, TechnologyOne
10:20
Blackboard Session
Zach Johnson Regional Vice President, Asia Pacific, Blackboard
10:50
Morning tea
EQUITY & ACCESS
11:10
Ka Hikitia – How effective has the strategy been?
  • The 2010 - 2015 strategy has set Maori education at the crux of its priorities with a focus on educating a Maori workforce that is skilled at the highest levels to manage Maori business and assets, enable innovation and to participate in the national economy and society.This session looks at how effective the outcomes of the 2008 – 2012 Ka Hikitia have been at this mid-point and how it can inform future directions and outcomes for Maori education as embodied in the new tertiary education strategy
Jim Peters, Pro Vice Chancellor (Maori), The University of Auckland
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
11:50
CASE STUDY
Making research viable
  • Market need as a driver for research - value addition and innovation
  • Managing flows of knowledge - balancing commercial nous and the integrity of research
  • Challenges for researchers in partnering with industry to develop, transfer and manage knowledge and IP
Distinguished Professor Paul Moughan, Director, Riddet Institute
12:30
KEYNOTE PANEL
Supporting quality research that helps to drive innovation
  • How well does NZ Universities research output hold up in a global market?
  • Improving the productivity and economic viability of research through effective commercialisation pathways
  • How effectively do we apply knowledge to drive innovation?
  • Open innovation : Enabling market responsiveness
  • Domestic and international collaboration - Fostering and strengthening collaborative research
  • Performance-Based Research Fund – Goals for 2012
Session Chair: Professor John Raine, Pro Vice Chancellor – Innovation & Enterprise, Auckland University of Technology
Dr Nigel Johnson, Director – Innovation, University of Canterbury
Distinguished Professor Paul Moughan, Director, Riddet Institute
1:30
Lunch
UNIVERSITY PLANNING
2:30
Imperatives for modern university service provision
  • Contextualising university provision in a changing global landscape
  • The challenge of addressing regional and national imperatives
  • Addressing national priorities through scholarship, research and innovation
  • Emerging opportunities in a time of change
Professor Roger Field,Vice Chancellor, Lincoln University
Dr Tracy Berno, Planning Manager, Lincoln University
3:10
PANEL DISCUSSION
Managing university facilities for sustainability
  • Changing needs of the modern learning and teaching environment
    • Implications for use of space, facilities management and retrofitting
  • Addressing the impact of a large university community on the local environment – awareness, engagement and mitigation
  • Environmentally Sustainable Design and Procurement
  • Strategic Asset Management Planning - Sector collaboration for national best practice
Jenny Bentley, Director – Campus Services, Victoria University of Wellington
Peter Fehl, Director – Property Services, University of Auckland
Emmet Mackle, Facilities Manager, University of Auckland
4:10
Afternoon tea
SKILLING
4:30
University response to skilling the national workforce
  • As manufacturing industry moves overseas is there reason for the tertiary education sector and industry to recalibrate the needs monitor?
  • Brain drain – Implications for tertiary sector, industry and economy – Is there a disconnect between the current focus of tertiary skilling and the actual needs for the labour force?
  • Applying a regional focus to skilling - Is the tertiary sector flexible and responsive and is industry engagement effective?
  • Remaining internationally competitive – Finding and skilling high end niches
5:10
End of conference
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