Business & Community Engagement news from Netskills

Rob Allen, manager of the BCE team hosted at Netskills, took part in this year's Association of Colleges (AoC) conference.

An innovative new online language resource, capturing over 100 years of the Tyneside dialect, was launched yesterday at a Newcastle University public lecture.

A Netskills coordinated project mapping out a new national skills framework for Higher and Further Education personnel showcased its progress at the AURIL conference last week.

Today the Netskills team says goodbye to one of our longest serving trainers, Helen Blanchett, who is leaving to take a leap back to her roots as a librarian.

Netskills has launched a survey to the find out more about the different roles, responsibilities and skills needed in external engagement.

Netskills is inviting staff from higher education, further education and public sector research institutions to give their thoughts on how to best support the skills needed for external engagement.

The JISC Advance Business and Community Engagement (BCE) team, based within JISC Netskills, led a parallel sessions at the annual JISC conference in Liverpool this week.

Netskills is co-ordinating an exciting joint project leading to the launch of a new national framework for professional development.

As 2010 reaches its end, we paused to reflect on some of the conferences we’ve attended recently, considering the take-home messages.

An online self-evaluation tool, set to help universities and colleges identify development needs and point users towards relevant resources, was launched last Friday.