Gareth Bennett, Assistant Registrar
Deputy Registrar’s Office
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Contents
• What is IGGY?
• What IGGY has done so far
• Current Activity
• IGGY’s work with Warwick in Africa
• Future Priorities and Funding
• Your input – what should be IGGY’s “big idea”?
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What is IGGY?
• an organisation aimed at the brightest and
most creative young people from around the
world
• provision and opportunities designed for the
top 5% of young people in terms of ability and
potential
• offers members access to a diverse range of
projects, challenges, and learning opportunities
that are engaging and stimulating
• provides genuine opportunities for
international engagement and collaboration
• expertise and input from leading
professionals, academics and creatives
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Face-to-Face Learning
• IGGY facilitates face-to-face learning
opportunities including provision through
international partners
• Flagship programme is the IGGY U
• 4 IGGY U’s held to date, 2 more to be held in
August 2010
• Early plans for Australia or SA in 2011
IGGY Online
• A dynamic and engaging collaborative online
learning space, including features such as forums,
blogs, podcasts and live media.
• IGGY members are encouraged to be creators
and collaborators of knowledge rather than simply
receivers of it.
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What we have done so far…
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IGGY U Programmes
• Two-week residential programmes for around
one hundred 11-16 year-old students
• 17-19 year-olds also attend as mentors to
younger students
• Students have the chance to engage in UG /
PG level concepts and approaches
• Encouraged to take academic risks and to
engage in methods of learning they are
unfamiliar with
• Academic courses are complemented by an
international social and cultural programme
• International collaboration in action!
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IGGY U Programmes
• 4 x IGGY U‘s held to date, 2 more in 2010
• Over 450 students have participated to date
• Courses run so far have included mathematics,
enterprise, law, medicine, performance,
chemistry, physics, creative writing
• The ‘Rolls-Royce’ of face-to-face provision
 “It’s been really life-changing for me.”
 “Almost everything that I have learnt here cannot be learned
elsewhere.”
 “Thank you very much for the amazing experience, I will never
forget IGGY or the people I have met.”
- quotes from IGGY U students
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The First Junior Commission
• A specially adapted version of the Warwick
Commission.
• A group of 10 international IGGY members, working
on a 12 month collaborative research project.
• The research project was guided by Dr Cath Lambert
• investigated different attitudes towards the provision
of education throughout the world, viewed from the
diverse cultural backgrounds of the Commissioners.
• Their output was a series of 3 short films, written
directed and produced by the Commissioners
themselves and published on the IGGY website.
• Junior Commission 2 now launched and recruiting.
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Embryonic Web Presence
• Online is the means to deliver scale.
• Full web portal remains in development.
• Basic functionality is currently open to members –
forums, videos etc.
• Trials of synchronous and asynchronous
collaboration software.
• Project Officer recruited to develop and deliver the
online offer.
• Development has been slower than hoped for, but
we need to make sure it’s right!
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Current & Forthcoming Activity…
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IGGY U Botswana 2010
• Organised in partnership with the Botswana
Ministry of Education and Skills Development
• Venue – Botswana Accountancy College,
Gabarone
• Dates – last 2 weeks of August 2010
• 90 students, 45 of whom will be Batswana
• Students will be aged 11-16
• 4 courses - 3 run by Warwick academics, 1 run
by Monash academics
• Courses are Chemistry & Physics, Creative
Writing, Entrepreneurship & Marketing,
Mathematics
• Locally contextualised social and cultural
programme
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IGGY U Warwick 2010
• Around 125 students, aged 11-16
• Likely to be the largest IGGY U held to date
• Largest proportion of non-UK students
• Demand has been the greatest yet, and from the
broadest base of countries
• First two weeks of August 2010
• 5 courses: Performance, Mathematics, Leadership,
Law, Medical Sciences
• Complementary internationally-themed social and
cultural programme
• Hosting delegation of visitors from the Brunei
Ministry of Education
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The second Junior Commission
• “Saving the Future: Sustainability and the
Environment”
• Topic driven by our South African township
students
• Competition to identify the second group of Junior
Commissioners is now open
• Post-Copenhagen, how do gifted and talented
young people want to tackle the issues raised by
climate change?
• Unique, global perspectives on a global issue
• New viewpoints, not recycled arguments
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IGGY / Litro Short Story Award
• In conjunction with Litro magazine
• £2,500 prize money, plus publication
• Winner will also have excerpts featured on a London Underground poster
• Judging Panel includes Sadie Jones (Costa First Novel winner), Ian Kelly
(currently filming Harry Potter), and Peter Blegvad (CAPITAL Centre)
• Full launch on 19 April
• Shortlist announced in August, winner in September
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Partnership with Mark Wood
• IGGY is partnering with Mark Wood, a polar explorer, who
will shortly undertake the first ever solo & unsupported
back-to-back expeditions to the North and South Poles.
• Currently on a training expedition in Svalbard
• South Pole in Nov ‘10, North Pole in March ’11
• Exclusive blogs, videos and live link-ups for IGGY
• IGGY members will design the logo for the expedition
• Will also be involved in the Junior Commission work
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Warwick in Africa, IGGY in Africa
Mary McGrath
Director of Major Gifts, DARO
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Summer 2006
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£30,000
12 maths students
Township schools
And lot of good luck ..
Children with constant challenges
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Dire poverty
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Children who want to learn
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In 2009
6,500 taught for a month @ £20 each
3 IGGY scholarships
43 IGGY founding members
4 more teachers came to Warwick
Plans to expand to Ghana
Enthusiasm quickly ignites
August 2009
First IGGY Forum in South Africa
Shy learners with very proud teachers
November 2009
Second IGGY Forum
Launch of 2nd Warwick Junior Commission
Group work and topic for the Commission
February 2010
Third IGGY Forum
Interactive session: How to get to university
How do you get there?
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Where next for IGGY in Africa?
Principles of Venture Philanthropy
Replicable
Scalable
Sustainable
Pilot an IGGY Hub
Motivate and inspire with scholarships
Use local support
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Future IGGY Priorities
• Focus for the next 12 months will be development of online
offer
• Rolling programme of themed online provision
• Vehicle to deliver sponsorship and funding from external
partners
• Whilst not losing focus on the face-to-face offer, including
securing of another UK site for IGGY U in 2011 as well as
another overseas venue
• All to be done whilst moving into a sustainable funding position
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Funding IGGY
Securing income and support for IGGY is critical:
• income will come from a combination of sources – course fees, donations,
sponsorships etc.
• University investment will inevitably be limited
• IGGY must become sustainable sooner rather than later
• membership fees will not apply for some time yet, so one source of
eventual income does not yet exist
• when fees are introduced they will need to be kept low – money from
other sources will allow the community to grow and remain diverse
• IGGY will develop organically and the rate of expansion will be
determined by income
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Partners
Investment from partners can:
• be used for bursaries for the socially or economically disadvantaged
(cash or IT)
• sponsor of online or face-to-face activities (e.g. projects, future IGGY
U’s etc)
• be targeted to specific regions, socio-economic groups or age ranges
• academic partnerships are coming to fruition
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Any Questions?
Splitting into Groups…
For IGGY to succeed in the long-term, responsibility for
making it happen must be shared throughout the University…
What would be your one
“big idea”
for IGGY?
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