Making universities more business like

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Making universities more business like

• Sue Holmes
• Head of Estates
• Leeds Metropolitan University

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A few questions

• Take a few moments to jot down answers to these
  questions
• Where would you most like to be?
• Name 3 live people youd most like to spend some
  time with - chatting?
• Who would you most like to hear speak?
• On what subject?
• If you were writing a personal cheque for this
  course what would your experience be worth?

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My answers

• On a beach
• Nelson Mandela
• Tracy Emin
• Bruce Springsteen
• Tam Dayell
• Obituaries
• I cant answer this one.

• Cloth Hall Court
• People from other HEIs
• Sue Holmes
• Making universities more business like
• Worth every penny

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The discerning customer

• Quality of the environment is significant driver
• Customer choice
• Fee paying- what is my education worth?

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Current challenges
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Creating the learning landscape

• We tend to teach what is comfortable
• Experience of job market
• Relevant learning
• Time to work and earn

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Students

• Seeing how others learn
• Performance
• Space markets itself
• The facebook phenomenon

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Technology

• More information in this weeks Times newspapers
  than produced in all of 1842
• Mouse traps at Wembley Stadium
• This years technology will be outdated in 2 years
  time
• PCs Laptops, battery life and the comms
  network in a phone
• Wave hopping

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The estate

• Second highest cost after salaries
• 2.5 building costs should be spent on
  maintenance each year
• Quality
• Suitability
• Functionality
• WYSIWYG

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The estate

• New build 2500 6000m2
• Cost in use 200m2 per annum
• Utilisation
• Research costs
• Integration teaching and research
• Sustainability
• Space management

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Drivers for change

• Funding
• Government policy
• Student expectations
• Employer expectations
• Technology
• Competition
• Management
• Decision making

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Drivers for change

• Blended learning
• Meeting new initiatives
• What dont we stop doing?
• Time and place
• Small number of institutions likely to grow/
  develop research
• Infrastructure/ management requirements
• Shared services
• Mergers and alliances

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Too often we are providing

• Todays teaching
• Environment
• tomorrow- what we
• should be providing is
• tomorrows teaching
• environment today.
• The same can be said
• of work environments.

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The b word

• The business of education- R, T, O
• Business planning
• Business cases
• Business in the community
• The region
• The economy

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Business drivers

• Take a few moments to talk to your colleagues
  about whether you think your university is
  business like?

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Business measures

• Should we?
• Do we?
• Can we?
• Would it be good?
• Process
• Systems
• Customers
• Responsive staff

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According to a valentines day articleone of
the most romantic places in Britain

• St Pancras station London 21st C

• St Pancras Station, London 20th C

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• Questions?
• s.m.holmes_at_leedsmet.ac.uk
• smg.ac.uk