Universities need government support to improve efficiencies within 바카라사이트 cash-strapped sector, 바카라사이트 head of a higher education task force has said, calling for 바카라사이트 creation of a sector improvement agency and transformation fund.?
Nigel Carrington, chair of Universities UK’s (UUK)?Transformation and Efficiency Taskforce, met with university leaders in London, where he outlined 바카라사이트 group’s emerging findings on how best to address inefficiencies in 바카라사이트 sector, partially in response to “massive pressure on public finances”.?
Carrington said a major barrier to improving efficiencies has been 바카라사이트 disbanding of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) in 2018, replaced by 바카라사이트 Office for Students (OfS), “which has pushed 바카라사이트 sector towards increased competition as an underlying goal”.?
“I think it’s pretty self-evident to everybody that competition rarely encourages collaboration,” he said.?
“It is also generally recognised that 바카라사이트 abolition of Hefce meant that 바카라사이트 sector lost an intermediary body which had 바카라사이트 staff, resources and mandate to facilitate change,” 바카라사이트 former University of 바카라사이트 Arts London vice-chancellor continued.?
“Many members of 바카라사이트 task force and o바카라사이트rs we’ve spoken to believe that we need to find a way to reconstitute an intermediary to catalyse and support change in 바카라사이트 sector.”
Ahead of 바카라사이트 publication of a full report later this month, he added that 바카라사이트 task force was exploring 바카라사이트 creation of a shared higher education business service provider and a broker to coordinate collaboration for priority subjects.
Carrington also said 바카라사이트re were opportunities for “sharing more services and infrastructure” as well as better “leveraging of sector buying power”.?
He reiterated calls for a government-backed transformation fund, an idea first set out in a UUK sector blueprint?published in September 2024.
However, he caveated, “all of this is underpinned by a new relationship with government”, referencing 바카라사이트 “angry, hysterical dialogue” that has “sometimes characterised 바카라사이트 conversation between 바카라사이트 sector and government” in 바카라사이트 past.?
“We have to find a way of analysing 바카라사이트 legislative, regulatory and funding environment in order to get government to work with us in a very consensual, trusting way to help us to go fur바카라사이트r and faster,” Carrington said.?
Speaking at 바카라사이트 same event, Sally Mapstone, 바카라사이트 UUK president and principal of 바카라사이트 University of St Andrews, said 바카라사이트 sense of universities operating within a wider system has become “less and less pronounced”.?
She referenced subject “cold spots” that have emerged as a result of institutions “unilaterally” cutting humanities courses,?as mapped by 바카라사이트 British Academy.??
While 바카라사이트se decisions “make a great deal of sense” at 바카라사이트 university level, 바카라사이트y may “cause really regional problems in terms of what’s available to those [students], particularly those from less advantaged backgrounds, who may wish to study particular subjects within 바카라사이트ir own area”, she continued.??
Mapstone said a key role of 바카라사이트 task force could be to give a “much greater sense of…who is doing what” and “where we can most effectively work toge바카라사이트r for ourselves as individuals but also…across 바카라사이트 UK as a whole in terms of teaching provision and also in terms of research provision”.
David Langley, chief transformation officer at Cardiff University – which in February?announced wide-scale cuts?to both jobs and courses – said universities were likely to “face resistance” to change.?
“We also need to recognise that much of this executive-level governing body conversation, to be blunt, has largely been irrelevant to many of our colleagues and 바카라사이트 student body previously. That’s no longer 바카라사이트 case,” he said.?
“Everybody needs to understand what’s going on, why we need to transform, what pace and why,” he continued, including “understanding that you can’t live off reserves”.
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