The Future is Inter-disciplinary: Thoughts from the HESPA Conference 2020
The HESPA Conference 2020 provided great insight into the value of interdisciplinarity within Professional Services. With a theme of Data and Decisions: When insight influences strategy, there was a lot…
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Value for Money for Students: Understanding a Student’s Motivations in the Extinction Rebellion Era
Value for money (VfM) continues to feature prominently in the UK HE landscape. We are told, for example, universities in England are to face a "value for money" review of…
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Expecting the Unexpected: A Lesson from the Coronavirus Outbreak
No sooner has Brexit vanished from the media than news bulletins are awash with headlines about the Coronavirus. The situation in China, and beyond, regarding the rise and spread of…
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Coaching: Enhancing Your Workforce Capability
If someone told you there was a magic bullet to help you withstand the turmoil underway in the UK Higher Education (HE) sector now, most leaders, managers and members of…
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The Digital University Part 3: New Opportunities for Growth
A traditional IT strategy focuses on improving the efficiency of what we already do – replacing paper processes with a quicker, computerised equivalent. Technology can bring efficiencies to our use…
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The Campus for the Future: Making the Right Investments
Some Scandinavian universities are investing at record levels in major digital transformation programmes. They are responding to new digital advancements that will require a rethink of old IT strategy in…
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The Digital University Part 2: Putting People First
The first computers date back to the 1950s. A profession of people grew up to apply the new technology. The IT profession has made many mistakes along the way, but…
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SUMS Annual Conference 2019 – The Growth Paradox in Higher Education
Themed: ‘The Growth Paradox in Higher Education’, this year’s programme covered a wide range of topical issues currently facing the higher education sector. We welcomed over 90 delegates on the…
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