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UCISA LAUNCH ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT
By Mark Ritchie, Deputy Director and Head of Project Services, University of Edinburgh
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uccessfully delivering major business and IT change projects is notoriously fraught with diffi culties. In complex
and highly devolved organisations such as universities and colleges the challenges can be even more signifi cant! Recognising these challenges, and the
importance of successfully managing change in the fast moving higher education sector, UCISA established a new Project and Change Management Group earlier this year. The new group brings together professional staff from across the UK HE sector to develop and promote best practice in all aspects of project and change management. The fi rst major deliverable from the
new group is a toolkit aimed at improving the governance of major projects. The Major Project Governance Assessment
Toolkit has been developed to assist staff who are managing or participating in major change projects.
The toolkit provides: guidance on assessing which projects should be classed as Major Projects the key governance elements that must be managed for Major Projects an assessment tool to help ensure that the required governance actions are established and work eff ectively throughout the life of the project a visualisation tool for project governance case studies on the use of the toolkit at the University of Edinburgh. The toolkit has been designed to be
complementary to existing project and change management processes and can be used as a checklist for any project. The
toolkit fi lls an important gap by providing a repeatable assessment process
that covers all aspects of governance for major projects – something that project sponsors and project boards have been asking for in most
universities for some time! The toolkit is published in both PDF and Microsoft Word versions and the Microsoft Word version can be customised to meet local
institutional requirements. We believe that the toolkit provides common sense guidance that will help support bet er management of project and change initiatives and ultimately greater benefi ts for students and staff .
The toolkit is available for download from the UCISA website at ht p://
www.ucisa.ac.uk/publications/ major_project_gov.aspx
11-12 November 2014. Manchester Central Exhibition, Conference,
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Creating Learning Environments Speakers include:
Comprising a two-day exhibition & conference Education Estates brings the education sector together to share best practice and learn from each other. The Conference has been put together by the industry, for the industry and has two streams, one covering schools and one covering colleges and universities.
The conference is complimentary for individuals directly employed in schools, colleges, universities and local authorities.
Ann Bodkin, Head of Design, Education Funding Agency
Keir Smith, Associate Head Teacher, William Perkin High School, Ealing
To hear from these speakers and more register today at
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Supporters: Event Sponsors: Charity Partner:
Sir Anthony Seldon, Master, Wellington College
Rachel Stephenson, Programme Director, Education Funding Agency
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