Customised one-day in-house Postgraduate Development Seminars

Postgraduate Directions' portfolio of one-day seminars has been developed to help individual institutions address specific issues relating to postgraduate development. Each seminar can be customised to include your own institutional data and to concentrate on particular areas. You will get a seminar tailored to the needs of your institution, so you will know that all content will be directly relevant to staff, without any added travel or time costs.

Seminars are intended for a maximum of 20 delegates and include intensive groupwork sessions and the development of individual Delegate Direction Plans and Group Strategy Plans if required.

If your institution needs a seminar that focuses on other postgraduate issues, please contact us to discuss how we can develop a seminar that will meet your particular requirements.

1. Developing Postgraduate Strategies

This seminar is designed to help your organisation develop its own postgraduate strategy. Customised to address the particular academic and market issues and challenges faced by your own institution, this intensive seminar is intended for senior academic and administrative staff involved in the development of postgraduate strategy, either centrally or at Faculty level.

Sessions address:

Institutional, Local, National and International Contexts for a postgraduate strategy
Strategic and Management structures
Current and Future Provision and Markets
Market Segmentation and Portfolio Planning
Practical strategy development

Both individually and as a group, delegates will create workable plans for developing a postgraduate strategy for your institution.

2. Managing the Doctoral Examination in your institution

This seminar is designed to help your organisation manage the processes involved in examination doctoral awards. It would be customised to fit within the regulatory structure and systems of your institution and within your quality assurance mechanisms.

Sessions address:

Institutional, Local, National and International Contexts for doctoral examination
The possibilities inherent in regulatory structures
Examining different kinds of doctorate
Current and future ways of organising Doctoral examinations
Training issues (for internal examiners and independent chairs)
Practical strategy development regarding doctoral examination

3. Developing PGR in your institution or faculty: market and academic challenges

Traditionally, PGR numbers in institutions have increased or decreased 'organically' as academic emphases and expertise in institutions has changed, but institutions are now having to respond to market pressures, league tables and new expectations. If your institution wants to develop its PGR provision successfully, this seminar will help inform your staff on new developments and their implications for PGR, and provide both knowledge and tools to help develop PGR proactively in your institution.

Sessions address:

PGR in an international context
Europe
Trans-national relationships
The home market
PGR, industry and the 'third stream'
Developing PGR provision
From strategy to operations
Addressing different markets

This seminar can be customised to focus on specific subject areas and market priorities if required.

4. Developing PGT in your institution or faculty:

Postgraduate Taught Programmes are now seen as a major source of actual and potential income for institutions: the need to balance market and academic priorities means choices have to be made and decisions taken that will deliver both short term results and longer term sustainability. If your institution or faculty wants to address these issues, this seminar will help academics and administrative staff work together to develop a practical, successful strategy within the context of your institution or faculty.

Sessions address:

The purpose and place of PGT in your institution
Current and future provision and markets
Funding and Pricing
Understanding your markets and market segmentation
Developing PGT provision to respond to your aims
Marketing essentials

5. Postgraduate Marketing: Strategy and Implementation

This seminar is intended both for staff in central marketing departments and for staff in faculties and academic departments who have responsibility for postgraduate marketing, and looks at postgraduate marketing from both strategic, and practical operational viewpoints.

Sessions address:

The real size of the market
Postgraduate Marketing in a complex organisation
Defining marketing priorities
Understanding markets: market segmentation
'Matching' provision to markets: portfolio planning
Creating a practical marketing strategy
Academic and marketers working together

We also offer in-house seminars on:

Developing Supervisor training
Developing staff development programmes for researchers
The development of professional doctorates
Current topics in doctoral education
Best practice in research degree supervision
Managing the quality environment
Ethics and governance

And workshops (day or half-day) for staff and postgraduate students on:

Writing, publication and peer review
Preparing effective posters
Understanding IPR and copyright
Approaching your viva
Preparing a research protocol
Presentational skills

Costs:

Our one-day seminars cost £2,500, plus expenses for a group of up to 20 delegates. This includes customisation work to incorporate data and information from your own institution and 2 delegates to deliver the seminar.

If development work is required to include additional or alternative sessions not included above, to address particular issues your institution wishes to focus on, additional development days will be agreed in advance and are charged at £750 per day. If the seminar group is more than 20 delegates, a third consultant may be required to deliver the seminar: an additional £750 is then added to the seminar fee.