Lean and Market Driven HE: After the Browne Report

Lean and Market Driven HE: After the Browne Report

Dr Steve MartinCoventry University

Introduction

• HE: the key changes• but what does it mean ?• what‘s sheep farming got to do with it?• HEI’s: the new ‘normal’?• manufacturing make-over• Lean by Design

HE: some of the key changes

• student fees capped but increased from £6-9k• teaching grant reduced• continued investment in STEM subjects• loans available to part-time students• private sector involvement• the 2-year degree• student numbers managed by entry points?• institutional HEFCE funding at course level• no capital funding

How might this translate

• higher student expectations• lower student numbers (14%) and income• regional recruitment• increase in learn-as-you-earn students• three teaching semesters• increased reliance on international student income• differential course pricing

‘Shear’ diversity

Farm shop

Rare breeds

Visitor centre

Conservationprojects

Speciality productsB & B

Eco-mower

Tea rooms

FilmExtras

HEI: the ‘new’ normal?

If we always do what we’ve always done, will we always get what we’ve always had ?

What about if we improve on what we’ve always done?

HEI: the ‘new’ normal?

WBL

Part-time

Applied research

Course focus E-learning

Overseascollaboration

Internationalfocus

FE/HEcollaboration

Consultancy

Private SectorCollaboration

Application of the Five Principles of Lean

• Identify Customers and Specify Value• Identify and Map the Value Stream• Create Flow by Eliminating Waste• Respond to Customer Pull• Pursue Perfection

• centres of excellence• ‘plant-within-a-plant’• product not process focus• customer focus• supplier partnerships• competitor collaboration

The Manufacturing Make-overOrganising for Lean:

Lean by Design:Creating the Future State

Facilitiesplanning

Celldesign

ActivityTiming

Logisticsscheduling

Sequencing &

balancing

Lean by Design:Creating the Future State

• order placement to payment speed• cash flow• inventory

Lean Thinking in the HE sector

• Long-term competitive strategy

One that provides improvement for the customer

• Short-term cost-cutting strategy

One that provides improvement for the provider

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