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Outsourced vs on campus services: what’s the best model? – live chat

Efficiency Exchange - 21 March 2013

With the sector spending around £10bn a year on goods and services, universities are looking to reorganise – through outsourcing or collaborative procurement –...

MOOCs – is a business case emerging?

Efficiency Exchange - 20 March 2013

Some interesting observations here from Peter Tinson, Executive Secretary of UCISA, following the recent Guardian Future of Higher Education Summit. Views at the event...

HE sector prepares for future financial challenges

Efficiency Exchange - 16 March 2013

In the year before the introduction of the new funding arrangements for higher education in England, the sector overall was in a sound financial...

UCISA13: Vice-Chancellors Question Time

Efficiency Exchange - 16 March 2013

The UCISA 2013 conference in Liverpool last week featured a lively Question Time session with vice-chancellors Sir Howard Newby - University of Liverpool, Professor...

Universities can deliver value for money and maintain world-leading quality

Efficiency Exchange - 15 March 2013

At the recent Universities UK conference on efficiency in higher education, and in the THE last week, we heard that the sector is not...

Efficiency in higher education: second annual conference – highlights and presentations

Efficiency Exchange - 12 March 2013

A big thank you to our excellent roster of speakers and the participation of all delegates who helped to make this a very productive...

Let’s talk about efficiency

Efficiency Exchange - 21 February 2013

We've brought the service online quickly to start the conversation with you - but keep in mind that this is a work in progress. Right...

If it looks like a shared service…

Efficiency Exchange - 21 February 2013

More and more universities and colleges are looking at the potential for shared services to deliver efficiencies, says Steve Butcher of Hefce.

University procurement: not a sexy subject, but essential for our future

Efficiency Exchange - 19 February 2013

University procurement is not a sexy subject, says vice chancellor Nick Petford, but it's time it became a bigger talking point if the sector...

Efficiency and effectiveness in higher education (‘Diamond Review’) 2011

Efficiency Exchange - 14 November 2012

Efficiency and effectiveness in higher education: A report by the Universities UK Efficiency and Modernisation Task Group ('Diamond Review') 2011

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Events

5-6 October: AURIL conference, Bristol

Efficiency Exchange - 8 June 2017

This conference will explore how universities are using their global networks and partners to achieve more far-reaching knowledge exchange impacts and create new international business partnerships in other regions of the world.

10 October: Higher education conference and exhibition, London

Efficiency Exchange - 13 July 2017

This year’s event will tackle the challenges and opportunities that come with increased competition and choice in the sector off the back of momentous higher education reforms. Delegates will gain an exclusive introduction to the Office for Students, learn how to establish their institution as an international brand, debate the drive for digital in the sector and identify ways to enhance the student experience.

A toolkit to encourage more ambitious access agreements

John Butcher - 19 September 2017

Universities can do much more to target resources at widening the participation of adult learners, a research report funded and published by the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) suggests. Dr John Butcher of the Open University outlines some ways universities are attracting adult learners and introduces a toolkit developed by OFFA that can encourage more of these initiatives.

Collaborative teaching laboratory at the University of Birmingham

How one university is tackling under-utilised teaching spaces

Ian Tidmarsh - 16 January 2017

Single discipline teaching labs can often be under used: typically for just 24 weeks per year. Ian Tidmarsh explains how new larger teaching labs at the University of Birmingham aim to provide more flexibility, higher utilisation and thus deliver better value for money.

Journey to the centre of the student experience

Claire Povah - 22 March 2016

Mapping the customer - or in this case the student - journey is not in itself a new or innovative concept, however a small team at Lancaster University, approached the project in an innovative way. The project’s head, Claire Povah, explains its approach.

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