Membership Networks

Business Development team (BDT)

The Association’s Business Development Team meets quarterly and its over-arching objective is to add value to the individual capabilities of member institutions.  ‘BDT’ is responsible for the routine operation of a number of services and activities including GradsEast, the free and online employment service, the Technology Transfer Group and the coordination of the regional KTP Managers forum.  Additionally it is responsible for the development of the Association’s ‘Implementation Plan’ through which a greater degree of regional coordination is sought in order to achieve efficiency savings.

Membership

Community Engagement Group

The Community Engagement Group consists of representatives from HEIs with an interest in community and public engagement. They act as an information sharing group with the community and voluntary sector in the region, and with EEDA, through seminars, conferences and research. They are also developing regional metrics for the assessment of community and public engagement, which will be used to monitor performance and see how this contributes to EEDA’s PSA targets on social inclusion.

Health Liaison Group

The Health Liaison Group consists of representatives from those HEIs with an interest in delivering health education. It meets up to three times a year, with representatives of the Strategic Health Authority in order to discuss matters of strategic and regional relevance in the health education sector. The AUEE Board also meets once a year with the SHA Chair and the Chief Executive for a high level review of health education and the relationship between the health sector and HEIs.

FE/HE and Life Long Learning Network Group

The FE/HE and Life Long Learning Network Group consists of regular interactions between AUEE staff and with their counterparts in ACER (the Association of Colleges in the Eastern Region) and MOVE, the Lifelong Learning Network. This interaction takes many forms from the establishment of an annual joint conference with ACER to less high profile but equally beneficial linkages such as at business development and community engagement level. With several HEIs directly linked with dual sector institutions and with funding opportunities such as KTPs available to both HE and FE providers, the regular liaison emanating from this informal grouping can only add value to the Association’s other areas of responsibility.

Aimhigher and Widening Participation Group

Following HEFCE’s restructuring of the work of the Aimhigher partnerships in the region; AUEE delivers services for the sub-regional partnerships that enable them to come together on an occasional basis. Additionally this Group will share an annual conference with those involved in the delivery of widening participation (WP). The work of this Group combines current practice and research relevant to the work of WP practitioners in the region and it will also commission a limited amount of data collection and CPD work for the partnership.