Who will benefit?
These benefits identified link to the strategic goals of the University’s five-year plan and are in line with statutory and regulatory compliance.
Students
- Improved student experience arising from a consistent, coherent approach to collaborative timetabling that takes account of:
- activities within the scope of the collaborative timetabling project
- wellbeing factors and student preferences, and
- delivers a complete, timely, and accurate timetable.
Academic colleagues
- Increase academic staff satisfaction by way of consistent collaborative scheduling that:
- enables academic staff to support students to achieve the best learning outcomes
- optimises the use of time and specialist space, and
- acknowledges FWA and considers soft constraints.
- Increased administrative efficiency achieved by specialist Faculty Scheduling Teams using the revised Timetable Policy together with streamlined and consistent processes and new SOPs. This will make more effective use of Professional Services (Operations) staff time and reduce the administrative burden on academic staff.
PS colleagues
- Increase PS (Technical) staff satisfaction by way of consistent collaborative scheduling that:
- enables PS (Technical) staff to support students to achieve the best learning outcomes
- optimises the use of time and specialist space, and
- acknowledges FWA and considers soft constraints.
- Improve the capability, capacity, and efficiency of Professional Services (Operations) staff by enabling them to work together more easily, underpinning this with appropriate training and development.
- Increased administrative efficiency achieved by specialist Faculty Scheduling Teams using the revised Timetable Policy together with streamlined and consistent processes and new SOPs. This will make more effective use of Professional Services (Operations) staff time and reduce the administrative burden on academic staff.
Wider University
- Improved access to accurate data and detailed reports will facilitate a reduction in the number of timetabling errors and change requests, support a consistent timetabling process, and provide improved management information. This will enable more efficient and effective performance measurement and better decision-making.
- Optimise the use of campus space via a collaborative timetabling process to enable spaces that are fit-for-purpose to be allocated for the provision of teaching and learning.
- Minimise the risk to the University's reputation and potential costs, including fines, arising from GDPR breaches of student and staff personal data by meeting statutory and regulatory compliance standards.