UK higher education (HE) currently faces challenges on an unprecedented scale, with as many as 40% of institutions facing budget deficits. For many, their long-term financial sustainability is under threat, and institutions are already investigating new ways of working to secure stability for the sector.
Building on their expertise as a provider of critical infrastructure, shared efficiencies and best practice, AIRTO member Jisc has commissioned a new report, Collaboration for a sustainable future, to examine the sector’s many interconnected challenges and opportunities in more detail and identify ways to address them. Co-produced with KPMG in the UK, the report explores how deeper collaboration in digital, data and technology can be achieved, leading to enhanced efficiencies and improved sector-wide outcomes across UK HE.
Jisc is already initiating key next steps following on from this report, working with Universities UK (UUK) in line with their recent blueprint for change. Jisc is engaged with UUK’s new Efficiency and Transformation Taskforce to drive forward collaborative efficiencies, and to support the sector as it begins to adapt to new methods of operation and delivery.
