United Kingdom

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  • Industry: Public Sector, Education
  • Date: 12/05/2011

Achieve - Helping to Grow and Sustain a World Class Sector 

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KPMG's education team has launched a suite of offerings to highlight how are helping to sustain the UK’s world class Higher Education sector.

Use the menu below to find out more about each offering and to download more information:

 

 

    Procurement in the HE sector has often been an overlooked “Cinderella” function, often viewed as a mechanism for ensuring compliance rather than one that can drive significant organisational efficiencies. Find out how Procurement Lite from KPMG can give a different perspective on procurement.

 

    In most larger universities, procurement is a mature function which already engages with the organisation at a number of levels. In an increasingly difficult financial world, the underlying challenge is “does procurement have the impact that it should?” Read more about how KPMG has helped other HEIs get more from the procurement process.

 

    In today’s rapidly expanding Higher Education international marketplace, where competition for students is greater than ever, forming effective enduring relationships with overseas partners is a strategic priority for many institutions. KPMG has a unique global network of Education specialists who combine audit, financial, corporate finance, transactions, tax and advisory expertise available to support you.

 

    Universities are highly complex organisations with very specific IT requirements that cannot be met by off-the-shelf equipment built to ‘standard’ specifications. This often leads to fragmentation of IT delivery and support, duplication of activity, increased complexity of the IT infrastructure, and poor value for money from IT, when viewed across the University as a whole. KPMG has created a clear, structured process to help you improve value and efficiency from IT delivery.

     

    Never has the Higher Education sector experienced such a rapidly changing and uncertain environment; tuition fees, efficiency and income growth plans have been established and scenario planning is taking place. One team at the heart of this work is the Finance Function, but to what extent do your processes release your skilled staff to respond to this environment?  KPMG has identified four areas that enable the evolution of the service to meet the needs of the University.

     

    Improving the cohesion with which the student experience is delivered across the institution and how much it costs will be crucial to enabling HEIs to emerge from this period of change in a stronger position.  KPMG has identified four areas where we have supported institutions in further enhancing their approaches to these issues.

  

    In uncertain times, and during any period of change, it is important that management and Governing Bodies are assured that key processes are appropriately controlled and that business systems are not adversely impacted by broader organisational initiatives and changes.  KPMG has the skills and experience to help you think though your strategic opportunities.

Contact

Mike Rowley


Partner and UK
Head of Education

T: 07976 424513

E: michael.rowley@kpmg.co.uk