For this week’s lecture we had Olive Hopker, head of planning and development talk to us about how the Welsh Government is promoting collaboration.
The sections she spoke about were the following:
• Ministerial statements
• Employment and governance and structure in wales
• Collaboration and competition issues
• Regional planning and role of HEFCW
Olive Hopker went through current collaboration such as, library access, ICT etc and then explained about competition for example, student recruitment, league tables, reputation etc. The next part was about the benefits of collaboration and competition which are:
• Shared knowledge
• Greater efficiency
• Cost saving
• Additional services (library)
• Reputation enhanced
• Value of external eye
• Collaboration groupings flexible
Competition
• Promotes efforts
• Provides choice of alternative services
Benefits of small and large higher educational institutes were explained to us along with limitations. The second section was about ‘regional dimension to the planning and delivering of higher education’ and the three regions (centres for teaching) were talked about. Olive explained that HEFCW asked for details of course rationalisation and that they ‘bid for reward funding’. They are given a certain amount of time to improve but in that time money is taken from them, but then rewarded back to them if they reach their targets and get high enough marks. From this lecture I learnt more about benefits for small higher educational institutes and about the three regions where the centres for teaching are.
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