26 February 2015 Matt Sisson, Projects and Membership Manager
The final report of the UUK Efficiency Task Group has launched this week. Also known as the ‘Diamond Review’, it highlights the steps the sector has taken, and hopes to take, in enhancing efficiency and effectiveness. In a foreword article on the Efficiency Exchange website (itself a product of the first Diamond report), Professor Sir Ian Diamond said the report “sets the future direction of travel for the sector and underpins our shared mission: that every pound invested in higher education is a sound investment. It aims to provide a focal point for all our efforts in the coming years, as we strive to ensure that UK higher education continues to be recognised the world over as the home for both excellence and efficiency”.
As well as more detailed examinations into areas such as procurement, open data, and asset sharing, it contains a collection of encouraging summaries on the effectiveness and success of Higher Education over the last few years. Under a challenging financial settlement, universities have improved the quality, condition, and suitability of their estates, controlled their wage bills, and undertaken numerous successful projects to share resources.
The report also details the contribution of the sector to the wider UK economy and society. There’s more on this in the infographic reproduced below: