A How-To Guide for Universities: Responding to the OfS Call for Effective Access and Participation Plans
There’s a lot of detail in the guidance and it might appear quite daunting. However, in amongst the detail of the requirements for these plans, you will note a focus…
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Tackling Sexual Violence, Harassment and Mental Health in Higher Education.
Earlier this month, SUMS Consulting hosted one of it's Academic Registrars’ Community of Practice Groups with the purpose of bringing sector leaders together to discuss some of the most pressing…
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Preventing the failure of Change Programmes
Depending on the research you read, between 60 and 70% of change and transformation programmes fail. There are a number of reasons given for this high failure rate – insufficient…
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Be All You Can Be with SUMS Professional Development Support
“It is often easy to underestimate the perspective that comes from simply stepping back from the day-to-day. Susannah has given me the space, time and insight to do this, and to…
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We’ve always done it this way!
I won’t go into these barriers here, but it is this session that made me think about the topic for this blog and the importance of the following three linked…
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eExams: Evolution or Revolution?
Brunel University recently hosted a digital exams seminar at which they posed the question: “Is the introduction of digital exams an evolution or a revolution?”. They concluded it was an evolution…
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No Room for Complacency in the University Sector
SUMS marketing members compared notes on the challenges they face in balancing the business needs of the institution with the requirement to firefight around more immediate issues. During the session,…
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Are 2-Year Accelerated Degrees Viable?
SUMS Consulting has produced a briefing paper on accelerated undergraduate degrees for its member universities. Here, in a summary of that briefing paper, we layout some of the key considerations…
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