New Head of Procurement joins SUMS Group
Gemma is joining SUMS Group from Sovereign Housing Association, a registered Charity where she worked as a senior manager. Gemma managed a team of 5 Category Managers and looked after…
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Workforce planning: playing the long game
Although numbers of vacancies in the UK employment market have fallen over recent months, the ability to attract and retain talent continues to be challenging. In this environment many organisations…
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Engaging your academic community in academic portfolio review doesn’t have to be like herding cats
A new model for academic portfolio review – Part two Part one of this thought piece presented a set of academic portfolio review case studies, which met with varying degrees…
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Academic Portfolio Reviews: Beware the long tail!
A new approach to academic portfolio review – Part one Most institutions have at some point lined up student enrolments on each programme and noted that a few programmes account…
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Getting your sea legs
It feels as if – once again – the Higher Education sector is facing something of a perfect storm. We’ve already reached an agreement on the next pay round, which…
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CUPA Conference Reflections: HR capabilities
In this final thought piece, I am focusing on internal HR Capabilities. This is based on four case studies shared by the University of California, Irvine, UCLA Health, Michigan State…
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CUPA Conference reflections: performance, development, and reward
Back in October 2022 I was fortunate enough to attend the CUPA-HR Conference in San Diego. CUPA-HR, the US-equivalent of UHR, had a huge attendance of delegates representing the entirety…
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Making strides on your journey to Net Zero
Targeting Net Zero in higher education With the bulk of their activities based around knowledge and services, universities’ work is generally less energy-intensive than organisations that engage in material production…
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