Efficiency Exchange
A call for tools to measure the effectiveness of technicians
Technicians are involved in many areas of university life, yet sometimes the vital skills that they possess are not recognised within their institutions. In this blogpost, HEFCE's Steve Butcher argues that if universities want to make the most of their technical workforce, they need a tool that measures the benefits they bring.
Academic Career Frameworks: Key to Change?
Bournemouth University’s new career frameworks for academics are the subject of a longitudinal study funded by the Innovation and Transformation Fund. Here is a report from 2015 setting out the findings gathered to date.
Five ways video will change universities in 2016
How video is transforming the way tutors interact with students and empowering students to create their own personal curriculum. This article in University Business highlights some of the trends on the educational technological landscape for 2016.
THE Leadership and Management Awards 2016
The THE Leadership and Management Awards are seeking entries for their 2016 programme. They include awards for outstanding estates, leadership and procurement teams, with the entrants for the latter category required to demonstrate how their work contributes towards the attainment of the recommendations set out in the 2011 Diamond report.
LUPC’s Shared Procurement Service opens for business
LUPC's Shared Procurement Service opens for business
This first-in-sector collaboration offers an in-house procurement resource for smaller institutions, helping them deliver maximum value from their spend. The initial participating members are the Royal College of Music, Royal Academy of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music .
Student engagement monitoring survey
Royal Holloway has launched a survey into how Higher Education institutions monitor student engagement. They plan to use the findings to help them design their support for academic departments as they advise their students.
Doing better knowledge exchange
With funding pressures increasing, universities are being asked to demonstrate the return they are delivering on HEFCE's funding for knowledge exchange. In this post HEFCE's Alice Frost looks at how the newly-launched McMillan group on technology transfer will support a culture of continuous improvement in university knowledge exchange.
Developing the next generation – Brunel University
A guidance and good practice resource for the leadership development of early career researchers and academics, based on a research project funded by the Leadership Foundation's Innovation and Transformation Fund.
Development of an Academic Intern Scheme
This project will develop a professional development scheme for postgraduates interested in an academic career. This intern scheme is designed to offer an innovative and inclusive way to expose postgraduate taught and research students to wider academic skills, practices and processes, whilst providing an opportunity to see the workings of a higher education institution.
Engagement driven approach to process improvement – University of Hertfordshire
This report describes a project to develop an approach to process improvement within Higher Education that focuses on people, acknowledges their different perspectives and uses these perspectives to enhance capability.
