Efficiency Exchange
Invitation to join a Jisc and HESA business intelligence team
Jisc and HESA are offering business intelligence experts together with those who have data analysis and visualisation experience the opportunity to join in with the community-led dashboard creation initiative, Heidi-Lab. Applications should take no more than 10 minutes to complete and the process is open until 18 November.
Operational efficiency: learning from Leicester City’s Premiership success
What can universities learn from Leicester City Football Club’s Premiership success? Perhaps more than you realise. On the AHUA blog, Alison Kennell, university secretary at York St John University discusses parallels identified between football management and institutional efficiency in a recent project to introduce lean processes.
Demonstrating HE Efficiency and Effectiveness
This report focuses on how universities continue to deliver value for money in a climate where income is reducing in real terms and competition is increasing, while finding recurrent savings which will enable them to make necessary investments. It includes examples from universities across the UK where universities are saving money through efficient estate management.
Analytics in higher education
Universities already collect vast amounts of data about their student populations, but often this is underutilised. This Universities UK report, written in partnership with Civitas Learning and Jisc, sets out the case for better use of analytics in higher education through effective implementation of appropriate technology and techniques.
The risks and challenges around large investment, transformation and change programmes in higher education
This document highlights the key issues and risks institutions should consider in managing institutional change and investment programmes and the sorts of questions non-executives should be asking. It is part of a series of documents around the theme of managing risk in higher education, each one focusing on different issues [registration required].
Introduction to Higher Education Finance
BUFDG's free e-learning module Introduction to HE Finance includes tackling questions such as where universities' money comes from and how it is spent. It has been will made available to professionals working outside finance departments to complete the course who don't have a full BUFDG account.
Intro to HE Finance – now open to non BUFDG members
BUFDG's free e-learning module Introduction to HE Finance is now easier to access of you don't have a full members' account. This will enable professionals working outside finance departments to complete the course which includes tackling questions such as where universities' money comes from and how it is spent.
North’s first shared data centre for education and research secured by Jisc
A shared data centre for the north of England has been secured by Jisc to aid collaboration and the sharing of large data sets. Among the first tenants are Liverpool University, Sheffield Hallam University and the universities of Sheffield and Leeds.
HEFCE funding for collaboration announced
Funding of £120m to promote university collaboration has been announced by the government as part of a package for the life sciences and university sector. The funding, which will be administered by HEFCE, will provide support for collaborative projects and activities between universities, across the range of knowledge exchange activity
Are bonds the right way for your university to fund investment?
Bonds are becoming a popular way of funding investment in higher education but this Times Higher Education article warns that you might not be able to get everything you want from a financing deal. The article urges universities to consider all the options to find a method of financing that suits them.
