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Portfolio Review

Director of PSI

Portfolio Review

• Successful programmes support the financial health and reputation of the university

• Unsuccessful programmes consume valuable resources which could be deployed more effectively to achieve our strategy

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Portfolio review: What is needed

• Robust approach to monitoring programme performance integrated with planning

• Transparent indictors of success

• Dual stage process for course development starting with the business case and then QA

• Appropriate multifunctional support to ensure the best ideas are selected for development

• Defined decision making authority

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Innovation in the market assurance of new programmes (i-MAP Study LFHE)

• Sector spends £200M on programme development/year

• Sector minimum targets UG 15 – 30 students, PGT 10-15 students

• Institutions judged that 75% of programmes were successful

• 10% of new single subject degree programmes recruit ≥10 students

• 19% of PGT programmes recruit >10 students

• Initial poor recruitment does not improve

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The Evidence Base

• Success indicators aligned to strategy

• Market data

• Market testing

• Programme costing

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Indicators and Market Data

Business intelligence pilot using Qlikview

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GBP £

License 1 x Small Business Server                  5,050

License12 x Qlikview developers/users                  9,720

MaintenanceAnnual Maintenance 23%                  3,397

Service 2 day training course                  3,000

Service3 days implementation assistance

                 3,600

  VAT 20%                  3,633

  Total                28,401

Data

• HESA data (5 years)

• KIS

• UCAS

• NSS

• DHLE

• SDS student data

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Indicators UGFT

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All schools – Market share

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Social Sciences: JACS 1

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Sector

Kent

JACs 3 English: Sector v Kent new entrant UGFT

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Sector

Kent

Top 5 HEI UK recruiters

JACs1 English: Institution comparison

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Leeds

Kent

Comparison of programmes

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Short Name

Programme Title

Leeds

BA Arts and Humanities with Foundation Year

BA Classical Literature and English

BA English and French

BA English and History

BA English and Philosophy

BA English and Russian Civilisation

BA English and Theology and Religious Studies

BA English Language and Literature

BA English Literature

BA English Literature and Theatre Studies

Short Name

Programme Title

Kent

Drama and English & American Literature

English & American Literature

English & American Literature and Creative Writing with a Year Abroad

English & American Literature and English Language and Linguistics

English & American Literature and History

English & American Literature with an Approved Year Abroad

English and American Literature and Creative Writing

English Language and Linguistics

English, American & Post-Colonial Literatures

English, American and Postcolonial Literatures with approved year abroad

International Foundation Programme - Humanities

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Exploring new subject areas

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Human and social geography

Physical geography and env. sci.

Where do Kent UGFT students come from?

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Next steps

• Make dashboard available

• User testing

• Release evidence to schools / marketing

• Include initial review within planning cycle

• Develop process to assess the business case for new programmes

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Other uses for BI

• All planning data

• Sustainability dashboards

• Equality, diversity and inclusivity monitoring

• DHLE information for Careers

• Student survey data including NSS

• League table monitoring

• Live student number reporting from SITS (2016)

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Roll out of business intelligence

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Interactive access to data via dashboard

https://reg-bi.ac.kent/qlikview/

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