Chantal Goldsworthy, former Student Ambassador Manager from University of Gloucestershire, discusses how student ambassadors can share their own personal stories to enhance visitor connection and allow prospective students to imagine what their life at University might look like. What is it about a story? Well let me tell you one. […]
Role of the HELOA Office
When we think of HELOA, we often think of the Group meetings, training and networking events, but we don’t always think of the back of house activities which keeps the association going. Yes there is a team of volunteers at group and national level which changes from time to time, […]
Potential impact of Level 3 reform on widening participation
Ria Bhatta, Head of Stakeholder Engagement at Pearson, discusses how the Level 3 reform may impact widening participation Last week Nadhim Zahawi, the Secretary of State for Education, made the welcome announcement that there would be a one-year delay to the Level 3 reform. This means that the forthcoming de-funding […]
HELOA Communicating with you
Well another summer full of headlines for education, who would have guessed? We’ve had talk of grade inflation, returning exams, gliding back and within it all, a number of really positive stories from students heading off to their university choices in a matter of weeks. As a fresh academic year […]
Covid safe events and the transition back to in-person Open Days
Nicola Breeze, Events Officer at Edge Hill University, shares how the University has approached returning to running in-person Open Days, in a safe and Covid-secure way. In March this year, after a year of delivering our Open Days, Applicant Visit Days and outreach activity virtually, we started to discuss plans for […]
Introducing our new Vice-Chair (Membership & Administration)
This blog post is written by Andrew Cooper, HELOA UK Vice-Chair (Membership & Administration). Firstly, I would like to say a big hello and thank you to everyone who voted to elect me as the Vice Chair for Membership and Administration. It’s a big role to ensure that everyone’s view […]
Top 5 things outreach professionals need to know about 2022 UCAS applications
This blog has been contributed by Alexa Gillett, Customer Experience Manager, at UCAS. Alexa is responsible for the providers and commercial experience throughout their UCAS journey. As the voice of customer, Alexa provides insight which enables the business to understand its customers, and which is used to inform the development, […]
Open Day Season – a survival guide
Steph Coogans, HELOA South East Group Chair, Marketing Manager for the University of Chichester, goes through the top five tips for organising and delivering Virtual Open Days. When I initially said I would write this Open Days blog back in April I had no idea we would still be facing […]
Virtual Events
Chris Mullen, HELOA Group Chair for North West and Northern Ireland Group, Education Liaison Officer at Edge Hill University, talks through his experience so far of delivering virtual events. Before March, I’d had little or no experience in virtual delivery and outreach. Delving into this digital world, I’m sure we […]
Communicating IAG to Students and Stakeholders
Andrew Cooper, HELOA Conference Manager and Schools and Colleges Account Manager at Liverpool John Moores University discusses how best to communicate IAG to students and stakeholders during the current pandemic. With physical events cancelled, we’ve all had additional time to finesse our communications with key contacts in schools/colleges. But with […]