Looking for answers to your international student recruitment conundrums? Look beyond the numbers to soft intelligence.
How did we get here? The prolonged growth in international recruitment and continued rise in applications (until recently...) isn’t news. International recruitment on campus and through transnational partnerships has shored…
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Higher Education Timetabling & Procurement event success
Amid unprecedented change in the software landscape for timetabling platforms, more and more institutions are considering their systems strategy and thinking about changing supplier. Implementing a new timetabling platform is…
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Because we’re worth it? SUMS Senior Salary Benchmarking Survey
Register your interest in taking part in this year's service Last year, we were able to present data which identified: Roles and differences within their portfolios Pay distribution and ranges…
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Freedom of speech and academic freedom – finding the balance in higher education
However, this journey won't be easy. Meeting the needs of your students, staff and senior leaders and governors, whilst dealing with the complexities of these significant adjustments doesn’t have to…
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SUMS Group successfully adds student representation to its Board
As a charity and not-for-profit embedded in the higher education community it serves, the SUMS Group’s vision is to become the expert partner of choice for universities, delivering impactful and…
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Understanding the benefits and costs of what universities do
Here, SUMS Consultant Dr Thomas Owen-Smith explores the benefits universities provide to society and individuals, and the cost of delivering them. Few other organisations can match the contributions that universities…
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Intentional organisation design to support high performance
Imagine what might be possible if universities were able to take all the passion, commitment and skill of their staff and ally it to an organisation where all the component…
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Stick or twist? Is it time to change your Timetabling System?
In a previous version of this briefing note, we stated incorrectly that the CMIS platform was no longer receiving support from OneAdvanced. We have corrected the article to state that…
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