For this season finale of Inspiration on TAP, we've pulled out all the stops and secured a guest with all the seasoning you could ever need; it's the bad bitch of education influencers, IbzMo.

In this episode, you’ll hear all about Ibz’s journey from a disadvantaged background in hackney through to being a Cambridge graduate, and how he documented the whole thing on his YouTube channel. You’ll hear how the central marketing team at Cambridge University embraced Ibz’s inimitable style and got his style and seasoning on their channels, you’ll learn what it was like for Ibz to interview Cambridge’s vice-chancellor, and you’ll get some tips on how you can work effectively with student content creators.

Not only that, we’ll also find out what it was like when Ibz’s college told him to stop making videos and start writing more essays.

You should definitely check out Ibz's YouTube channel, and follow him on Twitter too.

Inspiration in TAP is hosted by Dave Musson and is brought to you by The Access Platform, a peer recruitment tool that enables universities to connect their Student Ambassadors with prospective students wherever they are in the world. Find out more on our website or come and say hi on Twitter.

Does your student recruitment content have heart? Is it personalised to your target audience? Is it meaningful? Are you using emotion effectively? Are you creating something that helps your audience or are you just adding to the noise?

Our guest this week will help you make something great. Jonny Williams is a rising star in the higher ed content scene and can regularly be found on the conference circuit speaking from the heart, with enthusiasm, passion and, well, great content! 

In this episode, we sat down with Jonny to discuss those key points – personalisation, meaningful content and emotion. They are Jonny’s passions and he has plenty of ideas about you can bring more of all three elements into your student recruitment campaign planning.

Find Jonny on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

Inspiration in TAP is hosted by Dave Musson and is brought to you by The Access Platform, a peer recruitment tool that enables universities to connect their Student Ambassadors with prospective students wherever they are in the world. Find out more on our website or come and say hi on Twitter.

What’s your favourite type of pie? Apple? Pork? American? Something else all together?

If you work in international education, there’s a chance your favourite pie isn’t encrusted in pastry, but still fills you with delicious knowledge and insight.

We're talking, of course, about The PIE – the hub of everything for Professionals in International Education. It’s an independent media, recruitment and events company for professionals everywhere working in international education and is one of the most influential voices in the sector.

Our guest this week is Amy Baker - the PIE’s CEO and co-founder, and an international education expert with over 20 years’ experience in the industry. She’s been passionate about international education since studying abroad for a year as part of her degree and is now a key voice on the international education scene.

In this episode, Amy reflects on what’s gone down on the international education scene this year, what we should be looking out for in 2020 and tries to pick out what international students might want next year.

Follow Amy on Twitter. Read The PIE online.

Inspiration in TAP is hosted by Dave Musson and is brought to you by The Access Platform, a peer recruitment tool that enables universities to connect their Student Ambassadors with prospective students wherever they are in the world. Find out more on our website or come and say hi on Twitter.

The student communications ambassador scheme at Staffordshire University in the UK is one of the best around. Their ambassadors create amazing vlogs, host live streams and awards ceremonies and generally do wonderful stuff. Their content is cool, compelling and has serious cut through, and is a clear pointer to the value of working with student ambassadors to power your peer recruitment efforts.

In this episode, we’re going to learn more about Staffordshire’s student communications ambassador scheme, with the help of Staffs' Digital Communications Manager Laura Allen. Not only that, we’re also going to hear from a trio of those ambassadors - Hayley, Nom and Maxie - to understand what skills they’ve built up, what sort of things they’ve worked on and, simply, why they do it.

Check out Staffordshire University's student vlogs playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvIR_x7A7kk&list=PLkHj6Jg646IXpbFeQe9BJpDeLxGM_akfc

Find Laura Allen on LinkedIn or follow her on Twitter.

Inspiration in TAP is hosted by Dave Musson and is brought to you by The Access Platform, a peer recruitment tool that enables universities to connect their Student Ambassadors with prospective students wherever they are in the world. Find out more on our website or come and say hi on Twitter.

Gen Z. They're the generation everyone wants to know about, the generation that has heads turning and the generation that anyone working in higher education today has to understand. but, where to start? Well, this episode is a pretty good place!

Rebecca Roberts has become something of an expert on Gen Z this year, after sifting through 50 different reports about today’s youth and pulling out common trends, interesting facts and a bunch of stats you really can’t ignore into a behemoth report of her own. Basically, she’s done loads of reading, thinking and analysing about today’s young people and left you with loads of useful stuff to act upon.

In this episode, Rebecca will take you through her findings, offer some action points for you to work on and explain how to get real cut-through with your target audience.

Read Rebecca's report at: https://threadandfable.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/engaging-youth-2019-thread-fable.pdf

Find out more about the Helping Not Helping campaign at: https://www.helpingnothelping.org/

Find Rebecca on LinkedIn, and follow Thread & Fable on Twitter.

Inspiration in TAP is hosted by Dave Musson and is brought to you by The Access Platform, a peer recruitment tool that enables universities to connect their Student Ambassadors with prospective students wherever they are in the world. Find out more on our website or come and say hi on Twitter.

We kick off season 2 of our podcast with a trip Down Under to understand why Australia is just so good when it comes to international education and international student recruitment - there is a lot of learning to be had in this episode!

Our guest and source of knowledge on all things Australian higher ed is Mark Pettitt - a regular speaker at education conferences and the founder of the consultancy Edified. 

Mark offers us an overview of the Australian scene, brings plenty of stats to highlight what a good job they're doing when it comes to international education and we discuss what challenges might be on the horizon.

Find Mark on LinkedIn and learn more about Edified on their website.

Inspiration in TAP is hosted by Dave Musson and is brought to you by The Access Platform, a peer recruitment tool that enables universities to connect their Student Ambassadors with prospective students wherever they are in the world. Find out more on our website or come and say hi on Twitter.

It's the episode you've all been waiting for...we're joined by the Twitter account taking the higher education sector by storm - the University of Bantshire!

We find out more about Bantshire and how they approach their marketing efforts. We also put *your* questions to Bantshire. We also try, and fail, to find out who exactly is behind this brilliant account.

We’ll be back later this year with the next full season of Inspiration on TAP. In the meantime, why not check out our previous episodes? Oh, and don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a rating and review.

Inspiration in TAP is hosted by Dave Musson and is brought to you by The Access Platform, a peer recruitment tool that enables universities to connect their Student Ambassadors with prospective students wherever they are in the world. Find out more on our website or come and say hi on Twitter.

Next week, something is happening in the UK higher education sector that doesn’t happen very often; a brand new higher education institute is opening its doors and welcoming its first class of students.

Reddit has quite the fearsome reputation. It’s often seen as a place for trolls and quite a scary forum to enter. And, while that’s not entirely without justification, it also doesn’t tell the whole story – it’s also an incredibly engaged community that is really interested and values great content.

That part of the mix means it has great potential for Universities – something a few institutions have realised…one being Imperial College, London. In this, the final episode of this series of our show, we're joined by Andrew Youngson from Imperial to hear all about Reddit, Subreddits, Karma and AMAs.

Andrew is on Twitter @ACYoungson

Inspiration on TAP is a podcast brought to you by The Access Platform – an online tool that is redefining student recruitment by offering you an authentic connection to prospective students anywhere in the world. Find out more at http://theaccessplatform.com

In the conclusion of our chat with Tim Watkins from the University of Reading and Adam Koszary from the Museum of English Rural Life, we talk about what can be learned from going viral and what sort of things you might be able to do to get a boost on your own content.

If you missed part 1 last time out please go and check it out!

Tim is @_timwatkins on Twitter and Adam is @AdamKoszary.

Inspiration on TAP is a podcast brought to you by The Access Platform – an online tool that is redefining student recruitment by offering you an authentic connection to prospective students anywhere in the world. Find out more at http://theaccessplatform.com