Purple Door: Teaching and Knowledge Transfer

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Purple Door Teaching and Knowledge
Transfer Sarah Duckering Progress and
Implementation Manager
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The University aims to be the first choice
provider of skills development, enterprise,
innovation, knowledge and support for private,
public and voluntary sector organisations of all
sizes in our region and more widely in
appropriate sectors of the economy. University of
Portsmouth Strategic Plan 2004-2008 Purple Door
aims to ensure that our progression rates,
retention rates and employment rates of graduates
are above national benchmarks
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• Purple Door is a gateway between the University,
  its students and private, public and voluntary
  organisations. This one-stop shop provides an
  easy to access, single point of contact for all
  University services

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• Through Purple Door clients will be able to
• Access high quality research and consultancy to
  aid business growth
• Utilise a wide range of specialist facilities
• Tap into the skills of our graduates and students
• Retain and motivate staff through personal
  development and skills training

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• James Watson Hall
• Marketing Services
• Careers and Employment Service
• Research and Knowledge Transfer Services
• Marketing (Special Projects)
• Purple Door Recruitment
• But Purple Door is more than James Watson Hall

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• What can University students expect from Purple
  Door?
• Joined up services for employment and careers
• Dedicated commercial recruitment agency
• Advice on commercialising student projects
• Advice on postgraduate and further study
• Access to volunteering and part-time work
  opportunities

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• What can University employees expect from Purple
  Door?
• No added bureaucracy
• Repository for information
• Streamlined services that are fit for purpose
• Staffing resources for research/consultancy
  projects
• Cross selling within James Watson
• Additional income into the Faculty

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• Funding
• HEIF 2 and HEIF 3
• Regional funding
• No additional cost to Faculties
• New functions are expected to be self financing

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• Timescales
• Launched to the Business Community at the
  Festival of Innovation
• James Watson will be complete February 2006
• Graduate Recruitment service late Spring 2006