{"id":5978,"date":"2014-04-07T06:54:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T06:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=5978"},"modified":"2014-04-07T06:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T06:54:07","slug":"sara-parkin-joins-the-hea-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/04\/07\/sara-parkin-joins-the-hea-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Parkin joins the HEA Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear that the redoubtable Sara Parkin has been appointed to the Board of the Higher Education Academy [HEA], and\u00a0the welcome sound of feathers being ruffled is already audible. \u00a0This is evidence I'm told, by those who know about such things, of the determination of the new(ish) HEA CEO, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/contacts\/detail\/Academy_staff\/stephanie-marshall\">Stephanie Marshall<\/a>, to do something about sustainability which she is particularly keen on I'm also told, though I can find no evidence of it.<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">\u00a0 Some will think that this will be good for news ESD, but I have my doubts, as Parkin is smart enough to cut through the jargon to get to essentials. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a welcome development. \u00a0I have no idea how the other Board members and HEA senior staff will react, but it will be exceedingly diverting to watch. \u00a0All this comes at a time of significant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/alldisplay?type=news&amp;newid=2014\/statement_from_the_HEA&amp;site=york\">financial change<\/a> at the HEA as the Funding Council's feeding tube will continue to be withdrawn over the next few years. \u00a0From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/assets\/documents\/aboutus\/HEA_Annual_Report_2012-13.PDF\">2011\/12 figure<\/a> of around \u00a320million, the 2013\/14 tax-payer grant of\u00a0\u00a313.5m will reduce to \u00a39.5m in 2014\/15, and to \u00a35.5m in 2015\/16, and then to \u00a30 in 2016-17. \u00a0Heady times. \u00a0The HEA is looking forward to it, it says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear that the redoubtable Sara Parkin has been appointed to the Board of the Higher Education Academy [HEA], and\u00a0the welcome sound of feathers being ruffled is already audible. \u00a0This is evidence I'm told, by those who know about such...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}