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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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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