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Ben Vulliamy
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Ben Vulliamy is the Executive Director of the Association of Heads of University Administration, AHUA. The former CEO of the University of York Students’ Union, over the last 20 years, he has worked in various UK universities and at NUS. Views expressed here are his own.
24 pieces
Newest first, since February 2017 · page 1 of 2
· SUs
Hard questions for SU boards in an era of structural decline
With deficits doubling and income falling across SUs, Ben Vulliamy warns that incremental change won’t be enough – and sets out the governance questions boards need to ask now
· Comment
University governance needs more imagination
Ben Vulliamy sets out a governance agenda about new partnerships, reducing regulations, and thinking about leadership differently.
· Comment
The era of hyper competition between universities needs to end
Brooke Storer-Church and Ben Vulliamy argue that the government should address the limitations of competitive pressures in the sector to secure the financial stability and long-term impact of higher education.
With Brooke Storer-Church
· Comment
Why are university registrars so white?
Andrew Young, Ben Vulliamy and Louise Oldridge explain new national initiatives aimed at addressing the lack of ethnic diversity among senior university administrative leaders
With Andrew Young and Louise Oldridge
· SUs
What is a registrar anyway?
Former SU CEO Ben Vulliamy has a run at demystifying the role of registrar one that’s not commonly defined or widely understood
· SUs
How to make our officers and campaigns even stronger
Ben Vulliamy calls for a strength-based leadership approach to supporting student leaders and their objectives
· SUs
Students or staff? A research postgraduate Bread and Roses
Ben Vulliamy kicks off a debate on the status and rights of PGR students – arguing that neither students nor staff properly captures the nuances and needs
· SUs
New rules – or no rules?
Ben Vulliamy and Tammika Chambers report back on a day of strategy creativity at Wonkhe SUs’ New Rules event in Manchester
With Tammika Chambers
· SUs
Sharing student stories from Ukraine
York University SU’s Ben Vulliamy and Patrick O’Donnell report back from a call with Ukrainian student reps whose university has been destroyed
With Patrick O’Donnell
· SUs
For SUs, the biggest risk now is doing nothing
Understanding, communicating and practicing your “risk appetite” is a vital part of leadership – and navigating the pandemic has done nothing but reinforce that view. This week in England the Prime Minister announced a r
· Comment
Empathy is what we’ll all need next
Ben Vulliamy interrogates social media commentary on the student experience during the pandemic and concludes we should try to understand rather than react.
· Comment
Build Back Higher: what the pandemic has taught us about student life
Ben Vulliamy, Steph Lomas, Salma Hussain and Chris Shelley have ideas to build students back higher post-pandemic.
With Steph Lomas, Salma Hussain and Chris Shelley
· Comment
Another Covid student support package is possible
As feelings of injustice, hardship and anxiety build amongst students, Patrick O’Donnell and Ben Vulliamy plot a way out of the mess with a new kind of student support package.
With Patrick O’Donnell
· Comment
Students should be partners not passengers in the Covid community recovery
Ben Vulliamy wonders if students could be a real part of the Covid-19 recovery out in our local communities.
· SUs · Members
#SUFutures – Why are we so obsessed with being “local”?
With Steph Hayle
· SUs
Students and Europe is about more than Erasmus+
Students and Europe is about more than Erasmus+, says York University SU CEO Ben Vulliamy
· Comment
Serving local people means opening up to them
As the social infrastructure of the UK decays, Ben Vulliamy wonders whether we shouldn’t share what we have to benefit communities
· Comment
Reframing university sport as a public good
Is it possible to reframe university sport as a public good? Ben Vulliamy and Zac Sheppard from York SU think so.
With Zac Sheppard
· SUs
Reframing university sport as a public good
Is it possible to reframe university sport as a public good? Ben Vulliamy and Zac Sheppard from York SU think so.
With Zac Sheppard
· Analysis
Let’s go fly a kite: Students
Top wonks from across the sector share innovative ideas on better ways to serve students
With Rosie Tressler, David Malcolm and Jenny Shaw