The Design Special Interest Group

Nico Macdonald has alerted us that the Creative Industries KTN, sponsored by the Technology Strategy Board, has launched a Design Special Interest Group: 

https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/design-sig

See the blog post about it:

The Design Special Interest Group (SIG) is an exciting new initiative being led by the Creative Industries KTN on behalf of the Technlogy Strategy Board. The Design SIG will be run as a cross-KTN platform to promote Design across the Technology Strategy Board and Knowledge Transfer Networks.

HEA Annual Conference 2013.

What can higher education contribute to improving social mobility in the UK?

Call open for contributions to HEA Annual Conference 2013 The theme for the 2013 HEA Annual Conference, which will take place at the University of Warwick on 3-4 July 2013, is Powerful partnerships: defining the learning experience. Contributions are invited in each of the strands: students as partners; employers as partners and organisations as partners, and can be for a:

* paper presentation (20 minute);

* nano-teach session (5 minutes);

* discussion session (1 hour);

* workshop session (1 hour);

* panel (1 hour);

* poster presentation.

The conference will build on last year's event, which examined the transformational change in HE. This year the HEA will explore the increasing use of partnerships to address the challenges presented by change. Full details and how to submit can be found on the website, http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/annual-conference. The deadline for submissions is 12 noon, Monday 21 January 2013.

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