This is to give you advance notice of the forthcoming HEaTED survey and to seek your help as partners in making the 2009 HEaTED survey a success! The survey aims to find out how the work environment has changed since 2006, highlighting the technical skills needed by HE employers today.

Please distribute through the Regional Groups, SDF amd LF for HE networks. My colleague Christian Carter will also be circulating through the UPA.

A hardcopy flyer and accompanying letter from Sheffield VC Professor Keith Burnett, chair of the HEaTED management group is being sent out this week to all VCs, Principles, Registrars, Heads of HR, Heads of Staff Development and HEaTED membership named contacts. The letter is inviting ALL HEIs to participate in the survey which will be launched for Technical Specialists on 1st June.

Download Survey Flyer
Download Prof. Burnett's Letter

To participate (no charge for all HEIs this time but to members only next time) HEIs must return the reply slip as instructed by Ist May. Please make sure that someone from each HEI replies!

Last time in 2006 44 HEIs participated, and I would like to improve on that with your help.

Also, once HEIs have signed up it will be about communicating the importance of this to all Technical Specialists in individual institutions so that we get a big response. We have achieved a huge amount over the last couple of years but would not have done it (including securing HEFCE funding) without the success of the 2006 survey. This time around it is equally if not more important in taking HEaTED and the professional development of the HEI technical workforce forward.

It will make a huge difference if we can all work together on this as part of the SDF community.

Matt Levi