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Education Systems Programme Update
Rebecca Warren, Programme & Change Manager, Education Development and Student Support
12 March 2012
Programme Drivers• Improved student experience• Effective corporate systems supporting fit-for-
purpose standard processes• Support academic policies and quality assurance• Efficient administration and support for academic
staff• Replace unsustainable local systems• Flexibility where needed• Statutory/sector-wide drivers
Recently completed projects
• UG Admissions selection database• Events & Interviews• Postgraduate Applications (Hobsons Apply
Yourself)• SITS technical infrastructure improvements
Projects closing soon
• Common Timetabling Platform (Q1 2012)
• Integrated e-learning (Blackboard) (Q2 2012)
Ongoing projects
• Online unit registration
• Fees 2012
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate Customer Relationship Management
• Online Prospectus (2014)
• Key Information Sets
Forthcoming projects
• Dynamic Lab Manuals rollout
• Lecture capture
• Further work on e-learning tools
• Student Services support
SITS ongoing projects
• Automation of transfers, withdrawals and suspensions
• Paperless admissions • PG stipend management• Review of access to SITS• Student Accounting Module (Finance)
SITS in future
• Tribal invited to review our SITS implementation in January 2012
• Made recommendations on basis of modern SITS implementations in other institutions – recognise we need to catch up
• Currently reviewing recommendations and putting together plans and business case – expecting to invest heavily in SITS improvements
How do systems changes get made?
• Sponsorship needed
• Established process for small and large changes
• Small projects/discipline-specific needs met through Small Simple Initiative
• University-wide projects approved via business case route
Got a good idea?
• Requests for SITS: via SITS team ([email protected]) or your representatives on the SITS User Group
• Speak to your line manager
• Speak to me or Claire Nuttall in Strategic Projects Office
Any questions?