Maximizing Impact: Developing Cost-Efficient University Courses to Attract Students and Meet Industry Demands
Universities in both the UK and the US are facing financial challenges, with many running budget deficits at a time when student recruitment is also falling.
The challenge for the sector is to create ever more innovative programmes that address the increasingly complex world of graduate employability.
With current skills gaps increasing across the employment sector creating an uncertainty that has rocked the financial markets this week, and changes in technology requiring curriculum that prepares students for the world they face in the future, there is a huge pressure on the higher education sector to offset the debts that students incur when they study at university, by delivering outcomes that maximise graduate potential.
How Can Universities Create Brilliant Courses in a Cost-Effective Way while also Delivering Future-Proofed Curriculum?
Many graduates have reported that they do not feel that degree courses are sufficiently relevant to the workplace and that they are unfulfilled in the jobs they enter after graduating in recent UK and US Surveys.
Meanwhile, governments in both the US and UK are looking to universities to provide a more skills-based curriculum and apprenticeship and workplace offerings to bolster the demands of the current and future workplace.
The solution is to transform academic programmes to deliver the skills needed for the future world that graduates will face. But transforming a whole curriculum offering is not an easy thing for universities to deliver.
Engaging Academic, Students, Graduates, Admin Teams, Alumni & Employers is Resource Intensive and Very Difficult
Achieving a truly innovative, student-centred course design which responds to current and previous feedback from stakeholders is a resource intensive exercise.
Many universities are currently expending significant amounts of staff time and money to seek to create future-proofed, competitive curriculum.
But accessing the relevant data to design the best programme for your students while also addressing the development needs of staff to deliver the curriculum effectively is very difficult.
What universities need is a product that can support new programme creation and link this with the student journey IT systems to enable flexible assessment, interdisciplinarity, and personal learning journeys.
The product will develop academic and student curated content to reflect diverse learning needs, the academic strengths of the teaching team, and the different career options that a course may offer the student.
A curated curriculum product that enables a university to develop bespoke, distinctive curriculum and create future-proofed, adaptable courses will help the sector to support the successful graduates of the future.
A Curated Curriculum Design Product Can Help Cut Costs and Create an Innovative Curriculum for Future Graduates
Future Horizons Education has developed a product aimed at reducing the time academic and administrative staff time spend on new course design, implementation on systems and delivery to students by 40%.
The product allows students, alumni and, if desired, employers to give feedback and suggested changes to the course content, assessment methodologies and key skills delivery in real-time to enable a student-centred career relevant curriculum to enhance recruitment and successful future employment. It supports academics and the University to ensure staff development in future skills delivery ahead of programme implementation.
For more information on how our product can help your University contact Future Horizons Education
