Presentation given at the Microsoft UK Architect Council Meeting at Bletchley Park Presented by Keith Straughan

1. UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE
INTEGRATING WITH THE PAST AND
INTEROPERATING WITH THE FUTURE
Dr Keith Straughan
Dean
University Centre Milton Keynes (UCMK)

2. THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE
THE SHAPE OF A UNIVERSITY
THE PRICE OF INDEPENDENCE
CLOUD UNIVERSITY

3. quot;We shape our tools and thereafter they
shape usquot;
John M Culkin

7. THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY

12. UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

13. UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE
 DIUS initiative (2008)
 20 new university centres
 Widening participation agenda
 50% participation target
 Driven by politics – not pedagogy

15. THE SHAPE OF A UNIVERSITY

16. THE SHAPE OF A UNIVERSITY
 What shape of university?
 What shape of provision?
 What shape of graduate?

17. THE SHAPE OF A UNIVERSITY
 Council – Senate – Academic Boards
 Central Admin
 Schools
 Faculties
 Departments
 Centres
 Colleges

19. THE SHAPE OF A UNIVERSITY
 Schools:
 Arts and Humanities
 Biological Sciences
 Clinical Medicine
 Humanities and Social Sciences
 Physical Sciences
 Technology

20. THE SHAPE OF A UNIVERSITY
 Faculties in School of Arts and Humanities:
 Architecture and History of Art
 Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
 Classics
 Divinity
 English
 Modern and Medieval Languages
 Music
 Philosophy

22. THE SHAPE OF A UNIVERSITY
 What shape of university?
 What shape of provision?
 What shape of graduate?

23. THE SHAPE OF A UNIVERSITY
 What shape of university?
 What shape of provision?
 What shape of graduate?
 What shape of graduate?
 What shape of provision?
 What shape of university?

24. THE PRICE OF INDEPENDENCE

25. THE PRICE OF INDEPENDENCE
 Physical infrastructure
 Research infrastructure
 Library services
 QA processes

26. THE PRICE OF INDEPENDENCE
 Inertia
 Academically-driven
 High infrastructure costs
 Large student numbers needed
 Silos

27. A CLOUD UNIVERSITY
OR
UNIVERSITY 2.0

30. CLOUD UNIVERSITY
 Effective partnerships
 HEIs
 FECs
 Civic
 Employers
 Third sector
 Physicality and virtuality
 Leading-edge pedagogy

32. CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
 Influences
 Community needs
 Market opportunities
 Corporate strengths
 Local strategy
 Sub regional strategy
 Regional strategy
 National strategy
 HEIs

33. CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
 Faculties:
 Digital Age
 Health & Wellbeing
 High Value Engineering
 Creative Technologies
 Sustainable Development
 Leadership & Enterprise
 Education