ABSTRACT
When planned and managed effectively, the evaluation of development activities can offer guidance on how interventions have been perceived by the participants, the ways in which individuals are changing their capabilities and the degree to which the learners have transferred their insights into their work practices. This is important validation of the influence of HE developments within the university context, providing evidence of effect and potentially increasing sponsorship and recognition of the value-added function of these activities. However, if this evidence remains localised and internalised, it will be very quickly forgotten and subsumed into the archives as yet another piece of ephemera. Further, intensive investigations that may have been undertaken will largely lie fallow, failing to contribute to the broader field and its scholarly enhancement.
