Vacancies on strategic advisory committees

HEFCE promotes and funds high-quality, cost-effective teaching and research, meeting the diverse needs of students, the economy and society.
We wish to make a number of new appointments to our committees. These positions provide a unique opportunity to contribute to higher education at a critical period in its development. You can learn about our strategic activities from www.hefce.ac.uk.
We are keen to recruit new members from education, business, he third sector, and the professions, as well as to improve the diversity of the membership of the committees; we welcome applications from under-represented groups including women, disabled people and people from an ethnic minority background.
These are unpaid fixed-term appointments but we pay expenses.
Applications should address the specification and must include our equalities monitoring form, which are available from the following contacts: Teaching, Quality, & the Student Experience TQSEcommittee@hefce.ac.uk, Leadership, Governance, and Management LGMcommittee@hefce.ac.uk, Research and Innovation R&Icommittee@hefce.ac.uk, Enterprise and Skills: E&Scommittee@hefce.ac.uk
If you believe you have the knowledge and expertise to add value as a member please e-mail a one-page application statement to the appropriate committee's e-mail address above by midnight on 27 May 2010. You can expect to hear from us by early July.