Recommendations: 41, 42, 53

Recommendation 41: We recommend that all higher education institutions in the UK should have in place overarching communications and information strategies by 1999/2000.

Recommendation 42: We recommend that all higher education institutions should develop managers who combine a deep understanding of Communications and Information Technology with senior management experience.

7.6 The Government agrees with the Committee that good management is key to the effective use of C&IT. In the interests of ensuring that the most effective use is made of the considerable resources which are devoted to C&IT, institutions need to have in place coherent C&IT strategies. Where they do not already have such strategies in place, the Government hopes they will put them in place as soon as possible. In addition, it agrees that those responsible for the management of HE should have a sound understanding of C&IT. The Government welcomes the HE funding bodies’ efforts to promote the development and use of information strategies by providing guidance through JISC’s Information Strategies Steering Group.

Recommendation 53: We recommend that the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, in collaboration with other institutional representative bodies, reviews the functions of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association to ensure that it can promote the implementation of Communications and Information Technology in management information systems.

7.7 The Government welcomes the positive response by the institutional representative bodies to this recommendation.

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