Silver Linings Playbook – Opportunities to Transform the Sector During Covid-19
As the calendar clicked round into September at the start of the academic year 2019/20, it already promised to be a challenging one for many universities. An increasing number had…
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Ensuring Content is Accessible to Students during COVID-19
Our sister division, the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium, has joined forces with other sector bodies to petition content providers to make content available. The aim is to ensure that universities maintain their…
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COVID-19 and Distance Learning
The traditional undergraduate student experience relies on campus-based learning, and although distance learning is increasing in importance in the HE sector, it has broadly been slow to lift off. We…
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A Message from our CEO, Bernarde Hyde
Dear members and colleagues, We spent much of the last couple of years having conversations about the many challenges facing the sector and how hard things already were – or…
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COVID-19 Update for SUMS Members and Clients
For Our Members and Clients We have been closely monitoring the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and following University of Reading and Government guidelines. In light of new government advice around social…
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