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EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY | EVENT REVIEW | UCISA15
UCISA15
By Jason Bain, Assistant Director of IT at
Newcastle University
306 delegates, 27 speakers and 93 exhibitors came together in Edinburgh between 18 and 20 March to create UCISA15, the Annual Conference of senior IT management from across the higher and further education sectors
F
ollowing the opening of the Conference by Professor Julian Jones, the Vice-Principal of Heriot- Watt University in Edinburgh,
Mary Curnock Cook, the Chief Executive of UCAS, gave a very informative presentation about the evolution of UCAS from a clearing house to a
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technology company, and the fi rst true sector-wide shared service. It stirred a few memories amongst some (but certainly not all) delegates of the days of UCCA and PCAS, and plotted the near exponential growth in HE admissions in the UK from 1962 to 2014. There were a number of thought-
provoking quotes, but probably the most notable were “every pound spent on a legacy system is a pound that isn’t spent on improving customer experience,” and “IT leaders need to be leaders and communicators fi rst and IT specialists second”. Tim Kidd from Jisc Technologies and
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