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1. Energy efficiency
2. Estates Management
3. Travelling & International Fairs

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- Access/accessibility
- Information/digital overload & virtual fatigue
- Collaboration and connect (internally and externally)

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- International law, Russia issues not able to engage with certain employers/organisations

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Trying to filter through that is out there

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- Brexit uncertainty
- Focus on ROI and Outcomes
- Lack of trust in government by HE

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- Digital poverty (do students have access to quality resources, good digital literacy?)
- Do staff have a decent WFH set up?
- technology changed the dynamic between WFH and working from the office (meetings still online but encouraged to work from a noisy office)

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Graduate Outcomes shaping environment conversation

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- Student resilience and confidence (may link to use of tech, changing world at large - uncertainty about future)
- Grade inflation
- Changing demographics (inc. international students, different age groups, and class)

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-Virtual fatigue
-things not working! (turn off an on again)
-Getting up to date with tech in jobs for all schools of study (keeping up)
-hopping from platform to platform to find the best outlet to reach students, but students being overwhelmed by various forms of communications (nothing streamlined)

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- Onerous data protection work hinders day-to-day work.

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-confidence and resilience (students)
-initiative-seek out opportunities (exams and things been handed to students)
-Communication skills (online)
-Getting used to being online (maybe as a deficit)
-Being on campus less-Numbers in person
-Virtual fatigue
-quality of education (growing student numbers
-less 18 year olds last year
-International students cultural assimilation (forgotten-sense of belonging)
-Increase in mature students returning to university to upskill and gain lifelong learning--but also lack of staff to support them

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- Ensuring sustainability of future projects, resources, etc

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- Lots of online learning opportunities
- WFH changing perceptions of how we work, people seeking a better work/life balance

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- Taxation law (rising student loan interests)

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- Growth of computer science and data science. Focus on STEM.
- Online learning seen as legitimate form of learning. Will supplement f2f learning
- Challenge is to let go of older assumptions that in-person is always best. (Generational differences)
- Challenge to get students used to f2f again. The real world is still mostly in-person.

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-Brexit legislation (student fees and settled status)
-Sponsorship and international
-GDPR and comms to students, mailings and data collection
-OFS (graduate outcomes and marketisation)
-Covid legal issues (rebates etc) and compilance
-Visa compliance
-Russian's and employment law
-Funding and money off the back of several crises

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Changing International legal issues e.g. countries that are going after zero covid policies e.g. China etc.

The Tories

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-OFS reforms
-trust of government
-students being ignored cost of living
-business can they take on students
-funding-brexit and europe-feeling the pinch
-economic fall out reduction
-wars/global crises & generalised positions--can lead to discrimination against students (employers against students, students against students, staff against students, etc.)

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Less of the ad-hoc informal conversations in the office

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Less of the ad-hoc informal conversations in the office

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- Being in person just chatting in the office is good
- MS Teams chat is helpful but sometimes easier just to pop through and ask

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Allows for collaboration between universities

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Allows for collaboration between universities

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International students - transactional culture e.g. paying for a service and trying to maange those expectations
Level 3 Grade inflations - Students coming to university are unprepared because their predicted grades have been inflated.
Second choice - Students may not have had an alternative choice e.g. many would prefer to go on a gap year or find a job but could not during Covid
Age distribution - High population of mature students as many people choose to retrain due to Brexit, Recession, Covid etc.
Technology - Anecdotally, feels like Careers Services aren't included in learning about new learning technologies and the use of it in the same way that academic staff are

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- This has allowed universities to reach out and work with bigger names
- Allows the employer to present to 5x universities at once

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- Re-training staff
- Keeping up with the new, emerging technologies
- Tuition for students to use technology more professionally
- Adapting technology use to different student demographics

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- Career attitudes: Shift to take apprenticeships rather than take a degree as degrees not see as value-add/lots of debt etc.
- UK still a class-based society. The gap is widening.
- Ageing population: shrinking population of working-age population, more retirees etc.

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- Gov's levelling up policy = pressure on universities to give students a 'return on their investment'
- social mobility/WP/EDI
- Brexit implications

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Performance issues: Nothing to compare to previously

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Performance issues: Nothing to compare to previously

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How should we use resources?

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-Hybrid working and expectation it can be done online but does that impact quality and effectiveness?
-Sense of belonging--updating buildings
-student numbers vs impact in person
-printing
-electricity
-carbon footprint (training, travelling to meet employers)
-job market within certain schools
-accommodation--impact on the environment
-LMI

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- Rural/internet issues (staff/students)
- Cost of this technology (students/employers)

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- Emphasis on improving student experience
- Regional disparities/ different gov. policy
- Focus on graduate outcomes
- EU Funding Cuts/ Gov dept funding cuts

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Energy efficiency
Estates Management
Travelling & International Fairs
Catering (vegetarian and vegan only)
Paperless

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E.g. having the camera off was a big deal years ago but not now

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We know that the university is aware of this but do employers have the knowledge/training of this

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- Staff engagement
- Student engagement
- Employer engagement

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Use of technology used in recruitment practices as well as etiquette from students (e.g. teaching them how to professional address and communicate with employers)