Honest Conversations: Senior Leaders on the Future of Academic Operations

About the Event

UK higher education is navigating one of its most challenging periods in recent memory. Financial pressures, shifting student expectations, and the drive for digital transformation are forcing institutions to look hard at how they plan, deliver, and adapt. For many, the systems and processes underpinning academic operations have simply not kept pace.

This is not a problem that sits with one team or one department. It touches curriculum, scheduling, workload, space, and ultimately the student experience. And the decisions being made now will shape how institutions compete and operate for years to come.

This session brings together three senior leaders at different stages of that journey, for an open and candid conversation about what it really takes to modernise academic operations in the current environment.