Cooperation between three higher education organisations has helped to create a tool allowing universities to perform an in-house quality healthcheck. Since 2016, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), Jisc, and the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) have explored increased collaboration and cost sharing for the benefit of the HE sector through the M5 Group.
The QAA-led Provider Healthcheck was developed following a 13-week, Jisc-supported Analytics Lab and has been released to the sector as one of 14 community dashboards available via HESA's Heidi Plus HE intelligence platform.
According to Paul Clark, chief executive of HESA, this community dashboard is the latest outcome from the M5 Group's members to deliver services for the HE sector which help improve quality, create efficiencies and reduce costs.
The Provider Healthcheck will provide a valuable resource for HE quality teams across the UK at a time when metrics are increasingly important to their work.
Other positive examples of M5 collaboration include the Data Matters Conference in November 2017 and OneDesk the M5 group's shared IT service desk, which launched in March, combining resources and systems to deliver efficient support to staff and external users.
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