Summer Conference 201007 July 2010 - 08 July 2010

Event overview

This year’s Summer Conference is based on St Anne’s College, Oxford in the new and architecturally superb Conference Centre. Accommodation is in comfortable en-suite rooms located in acres of beautiful leafy grounds, with award-winning catering facilities, guaranteeing a summer experience to remember – and a relaxed opportunity to meet friends old and new.

Confirmed speakers include:

Key issues around the financial sustainability of Taught PG and PGR programmes will be presented by authoritative speakers in plenary and parallel sessions on themes including:

• Impact of current Government policy on PG funding
• Quality of UK Taught Masters versus EU programmes
• Strategic response to competition from EU Institutions delivering PG programmes in English
• Skills training provision post-Roberts?
• Concentration of PGR funding – is ‘big’ really so beautiful?
• Student perspectives on enhancing the PGRS experience

• Professor Steve Smith - President, Universities UK & Vice Chancellor, University of Exeter
• Professor Adrian Smith - Director General, Science and Research, Department for Business Innovations and Skills
• Professor Les Ebdon - Chair, million+ Group & Vice Chancellor, University of Bedfordshire
• Professor Chris Park - Senior Associate, Higher Education Academy
• Dr Iain Cameron - Head, Research Careers & Diversity Unit, RCUK
• Professor David Bogle - Director, Graduate School, University College, London
• Helen Connor - Associate Director, CIHE
• Dr Debbie McVitty - Research and Policy Officer (Postgraduates), NUS
• Sue Carver - Head of Research Careers and Training, AHRC