All of the blogs that I've written so far ...

I thought an index of posts it might be useful – I haven’t really got the archive sidebar working as well as it should, and over the months there have been some posts which people tell me they’ve found quite interesting.

Title	Outline
March
Welcome and why	The ‘Sweeping leaves’ metaphor explained
The disruption that is to come	The impact of social media on teaching practices
Bigger is better?	On scale and professional service costs in UK higher education, using HESA data.
Big data, small budgets	How to get more from the data you already have, without spending a fortune
Dealing with uncertainty	Three ways to stop the future sneaking up on you unnoticed
Student Power	A history lesson, plus the Manchester economics students and their demanding behaviour
April
Eight things a new line manager should know	Or, things I wish I’d known when first I started managing staff
The customer is always right	About the OFT reviews of competition in UK higher education
Don’t tell him, Pike!	About information for applicants and students, and how to get it right
Happy Birthday, Janet	About how to make shared services work
Why are students so hard to count?	About management information and student numbers, and not getting confused
Who pays?	On the funding of higher education in the UK
Say hello, wave goodbye	What UCAS data tells us about the rise of alternative providers
May
The heart or the head	Idealism and free higher education
Masterful guidance	On frameworks for information about taught postgraduate degrees, and why this might matter more than you think
Operational Effectiveness	How lean thinking and Standard Operating Procedures can make a big difference
Squaring up	Ructions in higher education governance and funding in Wales
June
Boom or bust	Capital spending by UK universities
MOOCs ado about nothing	On MOOCs and how they might be challenging existing models for higher education
Knowing trust	How to make a collaboration work
Risky business	Analysis on the dependency of UK universities on overseas student fee income
Estimating dependency on overseas tuition fee income	Further data and analytical work on this topic, with a link to a download
Context is everything	On contextual admissions to universities, and two things to do to really help widening participation
July
Setting the boss’s pay	On student power and remuneration committees
Small things can make a big difference	A really whizzy technology which might help free up space in universities
Room at the top?	On gender balance (or in fact, the lack of it) in University senior management teams
The money lenders	Problems with plans to sell student debt to universities
August
Doctor, doctor!	Patterns of doctoral study in the UK, and why it’s like the Football Premier League
The American Dream	On the adoption by UK universities of US style academic job titles
On regulating student behaviour	How competition law changes mean a change to the nature of the student contract
A desire to learn	Do universities forget that motivating students is part of their brief?
Should I stay or should I go now?	Patterns of student movement within the UK – or why England and Scotland have sustainable HE systems, and Wales and NI do not
September
Academic Dinosaurs?	How alternative providers are, and are not, challenging ‘traditional’ universities
Occupational hazard	Tips for dealing with a student occupation
Independent thinking	The impact on research of Scottish independence
It’s very complicated	Globalization and language skills in university management teams
Do universities really not care about students?	A rebuttal of a cheap article in the Telegraph
Neverendum? Neverlegislatum!	How university governance and management has lessons for the post-referendum UK political scene
This sporting life	Universities and sports sponsorship
October
QAA? Armageddon outta here!	All about the consultation on future QA arrangements
Counting them out and counting them back in again	How graduation explains (almost) everything about university administration
Key Performance Indicators	Explaining KPI’s, and why staff-costs-as-a-percentage-of-income is so important
A fine romance	On the University of Sheffield’s abolition of library fines
November
KPIs #2 - EBITDA	EBITDA – Earnings Before Interest, Taxation, Depreciation and Amortization - demystified
Scottish Governance	On proposed Scottish legislation about university governing bodies

In compiling this I remembered the range of subjects I’ve covered. I hope you’re finding them useful. Let me know if there’s a topic you’d like to see!