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Can edtech startups solve the biggest challenges faced by UK universities?

This joint report with Emerge Education looks at how education technology has rich potential to help UK universities solve their biggest challenges.

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  • Shinaz Navas

  • Published: 9 March 2020
  • Updated: 17 November 2020

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Front cover of the start of something big edtech report

This overarching report of our edtech series focuses on understanding each of the most urgent priorities that university senior leaders will face over the next three years.

For this report, more than 50 senior decision-makers in higher education were interviewed. They told us that financial sustainability is the most common challenge facing universities.

This report is structured around universities’ five most pressing priorities based on our research with senior leaders. These five priorities are interlinked, so work on one priority will inevitably affect the others.

This is a joint report by Jisc, Emerge Education and Group GTI.

Top five priorities for senior leaders in HE

  • Delivering the best, most equitable student experience
  • Adapting to changing student expectations about employability and career outcomes
  • Expanding the university’s reach by attracting more (and more diverse) students
  • Transforming digital and physical infrastructure
  • Recruiting, retaining and developing world-class staff 

Find out more

If you would like to know more, please do get in touch at edtech@jisc.ac.uk

You can also join our ecosystem of universities and startups by taking part in our edtech programme.

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Shinaz Navas

Emerge Education

About this report

Authors

  • Shinaz Navas

  • Published: 9 March 2020
  • Updated: 17 November 2020

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