Where to find £500m or so?

According to “THE” (that’s going to take a bit of getting used to – “have you seen the “THE” then?”), it’s a total savings package for DIUS of around £1.5B. A quoted DIUS VFM report says: “Key areas being targeted are in higher education institutions, including procurement savings, shared services, better use of information and … Continued

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Paul Greatrix

Registrar, The University of Nottingham

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Paul Greatrix is Registrar at The University of Nottingham, author and creator of Registrarism and a Contributing Editor of Wonkhe.

According to “THE” (that’s going to take a bit of getting used to – “have you seen the “THE” then?”), it’s a total savings package for DIUS of around £1.5B.

A quoted DIUS VFM report says:

“Key areas being targeted are in higher education institutions, including procurement savings, shared services, better use of information and communications technology and of accommodation space.”

Wonkhe Pig in a poke A slightly different angle emerges in the Secretary of State’s grant letter to HEFCE where there is an expectation that HE will find £500m by 2010-11 in the areas of shared services, procurement and rationalising funding streams.