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Universities UK is the voice of universities, helping to maintain the world-leading strength of the UK university sector and supporting our members – the Vice-Chancellors – to achieve their aims and objectives.We help to shape the higher education policy agenda, engaging directly with policy makers and other stakeholders.
One of our key priorities is working with our members to deliver value for money to students, government and wider society. We have set up a number of initiatives to achieve this, including the Efficiency Exchange which we created with Jisc, Hefce and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
Further information: universitiesuk.ac.uk
Shared services to enhance the student experience – Q+A panel debate 3 July
Shared services can deliver efficiencies, value-for-money and a better quality student experience – and yet they raise a number of issues. For example, “What...
Procurement as a strategic asset in higher education – call for evidence
We know that procurement makes a key contribution to the savings agenda in higher education, yet the strategic value of procurement within institutions is...
Efficiency update April 2013
Here's a quick roundup of efficiency related comment on the blogosphere in April.
Vice chancellor Nick Petford and Andy Davies, director of LUPC, suggest that...
Universities can deliver value for money and maintain world-leading quality
At the recent Universities UK conference on efficiency in higher education, and in the THE last week, we heard that the sector is not...
Efficiency in higher education: second annual conference – highlights and presentations
A big thank you to our excellent roster of speakers and the participation of all delegates who helped to make this a very productive...
Let’s talk about efficiency
We've brought the service online quickly to start the conversation with you - but keep in mind that this is a work in progress.
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Fostering efficiency and innovation holds the key to our universities’ success
You might not have seen this post by Professor Ian Diamond, written to coincide with the Leadership Foundation's Unlocking Learning event last November. It...
Benchmarking to improve efficiency
As we learned in the Diamond report, benchmarking practice is widespread within higher education, says Chris Hale of UUK.
A wide variety of activities and functions...
Efficiency and effectiveness in higher education (‘Diamond Review’) 2011
Efficiency and effectiveness in higher education: A report by the Universities UK Efficiency and Modernisation Task Group ('Diamond Review') 2011
