PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Project management has many important applications in higher education: as well as major new developments which need to be managed as projects, many smaller activities involving organisational change can benefit by being designated as projects, with project management techniques applied selectively to them.

Universitas's own work demands high-level project management skills to operate the projects for which it is contracted. This is supported by experience gained by our team working as project managers in higher education and beyond. We are therefore able to apply this varied experience in operating training courses in project management for university staff. The skills needed in project management are partly technical, but demand also leadership, communication and administrative skills. Our training programmes are designed to highlight these various aspects of the project manager's task.

Two Universitas consultants, Tony Barton and Paul Temple, are the authors of the UK Association of University Administrators Good Practice Guide to Project Management in Higher Education .