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Higher Education-ITInformation technology forhigher education administration

Research on Higher EducationStudying, teaching, research, funding

Higher Education Development Buildings, resources, organisation

Hochschul-Informations-System GmbH

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General information

• HIS was founded as a nonprofit organization in 1969 and is jointly owned by the Federal Republic and the Länder of Germany

• HIS is situated in Hanover, Germany

• HIS has around 250 employees

• HIS has an annual budget of € 8 million and additional project funds of € 8 million

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Department I: IT for Higher Education

• Software and Solutions Provider

– Software Development

– Customization, Support and Maintenance, Hotlines ...

– Training ...

• Subdepartments:

– Teaching and Learning I and II

– Higher Education Resources I and II

– Development

– Testing/Reporting/Services

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IT for Higher Education

Functional Areas:

• Application and Admission Management

• Student Administration

• Examination and Certificates Management

• Management of Courses and Research

• Finance and Equipment Administration, Accounting

• Facility Management

• Controlling

• Human Ressources Management

• Information Management – Business Intelligence

• Application Service Providing (for all the areas above)

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Department II: Research on Higher Education

• provide information, analyses and expertise concerning higher education

• support innovative developments• consultancy• based on socio-empirical research methods• support higher education institutions and ministries introducing

new steering models and reporting systems• supply both higher education institutions and ministries with an

important basis for decision-making concerning future-oriented planning

• accompany and advise on the implementation of reform projects• Subdepartments: Research on Students; Studies on Graduates and

Lifelong Learning; Steering, Funding, Evaluation; Information Systems and Online Research.

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Research on higher education:Studying, teaching, research, funding

Work Areas:

• Higher education access

• Course of studies and success

• Entry in the labour market and professional experience of

graduates

• Further education and life-long learning

• Ad-hoc online-surveys (HISBUS)

• Internationalisation

• Benchmarking institutional resources and equipment

• Higher education financing

• Evaluation, quality assurance and quality development

• Statistical information systems

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Department III: Higher Education Development

• support planning, steering and organisation of higher education institutions

• consultancy on general work processes and specialist issues• organisation, infrastructure and construction of higher education

institutions• support policy-makers concerning strategy development• bundling resources• supporting legislation that is higher education- and research-

friendly • integrative approaches to organisation, building/infrastructure and

resources in higher education• Subdepartments: Organisation and Resource Planning; Higher

Education Development - Buildings; Organisation and Management Consultancy; Facility Management, Occupational Health and Safety, Environmental Protection.

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Higher education development:Buildings, resources, organisation

• Organisational analysis, consulting, benchmarking

• Planning, budgeting and steering in HEI construction

• Survey of HEI development, local planning propositions

• Organisation of technical services in HEIs; facility

management

• Health and safety, environmental protection

• New media in higher education