PROGRAMME

Monday 27th April 2009

11:00	Registration
11:30	Historical tour of the Headingley campus (optional) Departs from Jubilee Room
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Welcome Alison Wild, Chair, AHUA and Steve Denton, Conference Host and Registrar Leeds Metropolitan University and Conference Host Keynote Speaker Sir Alan Langlands, Chief Executive, HEFCE
14:45	Sponsor Session Health & Safety - How to protect yourself against the new risks Corporate manslaughter - putting the law into context New penalties and imprisonment New expectations of Directors/Governors/Senior managers How to set the right "Tone at the Top" How to avoid the pitfalls when dealing with safety incidents Simon Joyston-Bechal, Partner, Pinsent Masons LLP Extra-territorial liabilities in international ventures Gary Attle, Partner, Head of the University Business Group and Nick Abbott, Partner, Employment Law, Mills & Reeve Refreshments
15:45	Panel Session: Student Experience Wes Streeting, President, NUS Will Archer, Director I-Graduate Professor Morag Bell, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching and chair Student Experience Committee, Loughborough University Tobin Webb, President, Bristol SU Chaired by Jon Baldwin
17:00	End of Day 1
18:30	Coach to Leeds City Museum
18:45	Drinks reception sponsored by Saxton Bampfylde Hever
19:45	Dinner Dress code: lounge suits
22:30	Coach 1 returns to hotels
23:00	Coach 2 returns to hotels

Tuesday 28th April 2009

06:30	Breakfast at hotels
09:30	The challenges of student demography from a UK perspective Bahram Bekhradnia, Director, Higher Education Policy Institute Higher Education Policy Institute Chaired by Louise Casella
10:30	Morning Refreshments
11:00	Workshops Sessions How to become a consultant post-retirement John Lauwerys, Former Registrar, University of Southampton Eddie Newcomb, Former Registrar, University of Manchester and David Holmes, Former Registrar, University of Oxford Embedding good governance project Jim Port, Managing Director, JM Consulting and David Fletcher, Registrar and Secretary, University of Sheffield Pathway Consultation by the OIA Robert Behrens, Independent Adjudicator and Chief Executive, Office of the Independent Adjudicator
12:15	Lunch
13:00	Sponsor Sessions Managing intrusive media attention - a university's strategy John Boardman - Head of Education Sector Group Diane Gilhooley - Head of Employment - Education *A montage Cross sectoral reflections** *Pastiche, Hotchpotch....Mishmash Andy Shenstone Oakleigh
14:00	Conference Business Session - AHUA members only Chaired by Alison Wild, Chair AHUA
15:15	Afternoon refreshments
15:45	How can universities contribute to tackling the difficulties in the current economic climate? Facilitator: Jonathan Nicholls, Deputy Chair of AHUA and Registrary, University of Cambridge
16:45	End of Day 2
18:30	Coach to venue
19:15	Drinks reception
19:45	Dinner Guest Speaker: Professor Laurie Taylor Introduced by Jonathan Nicholls Dress code: lounge suits
22:30	Coach 1 returns to hotels
23:00	Coach 2 returns to hotels

Wednesday 29th April 2009

06:30	Breakfast at hotels
	Depart