Scotland’s efficiency programme hits its targets early
Scotland's higher education efficiency programme has fulfilled almost all of its targets, just two years into a three-year plan.
Digital Curation Centre
Centre of expertise in digital information curation. Provides advice and practical help for storing, managing, protecting and sharing digital research data.
Scottish efficiency strategy ‘on course’ says taskforce chair
The second three-year efficiency strategy for higher education in Scotland is on course and already delivering results, Professor Sir Ian Diamond says in a document marking the end of the strategy’s first year.
Participative Process Review – toolkit
The process reviews developed by Oxford Brookes have been specifically designed to enable teams to subsequently self-facilitate further reviews. This toolkit introduces the concept of carrying out process reviews to professionals working in higher education.
New toolkit aims to reduce data duplication
The Higher Education Data & Information Improvement Programme (HEDIIP) has published a data capability toolkit, which aims to help higher education professionals improve the foundational aspects of data management and governance. The toolkit allows institutions to develop an improvement plan with anticipated benefits including the reduction of data duplication.
GeM – the online store for HE and FE
eMarketplace and contracts repository for Higher and Further Education sectors offering sector negotiated and approved contracts.
Performance for all
Performance management software service used by over 50 universities.
G-Cloud
Procurement programme and online catalogue of government approved cloud computing commodity and support services.
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.
Strategic sourcing in UK universities: becoming ‘intelligent customers’
Universities are beginning to discover the benefits of new business models in their dealings with suppliers, say researchers at the University of the West of England. They argue that institutions should become ‘intelligent customers’, which will involve investment in new skills, changes in culture and raising the profile of procurement and supply professionals.
