Integrated Reporting in four British universities
*** Reposted with working link *** This document is intended to assist universities in their transition to this new approach to 'value creation', just as universities start thinking about producing annual reports and accounts for the latest financial year. It is the second phase of BUFDG's work in encouraging universities to adopt Integrated Reporting.
Value and Impact Toolkit
This project aims to develop a holistic approach to understanding and evaluating the value and impact of services that support students. Outputs can be used to assess the value and impact of the student services that universities offer.
Dropbox for Teams
Cloud-based storage service to sync teamwork across all devices. We are negotiating a special price for the research and education sector.
Reducing your ICT energy costs – Jisc guidance published
With UK universities and colleges spending £147m a year in ICT-related energy costs, making financial savings is essential and can have environmental benefits. Reducing your ICT energy costs is one in a series of guides around green ICT produced by Jisc.
Janet Videoconferencing
Enables communication and collaboration at a distance.
Scotland’s efficiency programme hits its targets early
Scotland's higher education efficiency programme has fulfilled almost all of its targets, just two years into a three-year plan.
Change management
A guide providing evidence-based research from projects involving large-scale change, focusing on: organisational efficiency, the student experience, business and community engagement and environmental performance.
Demonstrating HE Efficiency and Effectiveness
This report focuses on how universities continue to deliver value for money in a climate where income is reducing in real terms and competition is increasing, while finding recurrent savings which will enable them to make necessary investments. It includes examples from universities across the UK where universities are saving money through efficient estate management.
ESISS: sharing information security expertise
Universities reap the benefits when information security expertise is shared ‘by the sector for the sector’, reports Dr Andrew Rothwell of Loughborough University’s Centre for Global Sourcing and Services. He talks to Matthew Cook, Ian Griffiths and Peter Darby about the Education Shared Information Security Service (ESISS) as a shared service.
The P3 Project – People, Performance and Process, Bangor University
A project to bring the questions of people and performance together with lean methodologies has been developed by the Aber-Bangor Strategic Alliance with funding from the Innovation and Transformation Fund.
