Education Consortium Sample Clauses

Education Consortium. This area provides accommodation for the cohorts of staff involved in activities supporting the expansion of participation and enrichment of the student experience. The shared common spaces are intended to encourage interaction and synergisms amongst staff. The performance of the University estate The performance of the University estate has been improving since 2010. USQ chose to adopt a Strategic Asset Management (XXX) approach to the management and development of the built estate in 2011. Since that time various planning linkages, systems, process and databases have been developed and implemented to inform both the performance of the estate and also investment decisions around estates development, retirement and renewal. The XXX framework continues to develop and in 2013 it is intended to strengthen the linkage between corporate planning cycles and estates planning by expanding the content of the planning templates and creating stronger relationships from the estates planning to the Capital Asset Management Plan (CAMP). This will result in a CAMP that more closely reflects the influences of student and staff load, academic product variation and pedagogical development. For USQ the operation of the physical estates represents a significant portion of the enterprise expense and consequently increasing focus is being placed on using the assets efficiently. The Tertiary Education Facilities Management Association (TEFMA) has some excellent resources regarding space management and also measuring the utilisation of space. The University adopted the TEFMA model in 2009 and since that time has undertaken space utilisation audits to determine performance and will continue to do so. Space audits are only the beginning though and USQ has committed to not only performing the audits but to act upon the results. For 2013, the focus for USQ will be on the retirement or repurposing of older building stock. This involves projects around three buildings at the Toowoomba and will reduce the overall GFA and improve utilisation of similar spaces elsewhere on the Campus. In parallel, the University is challenging itself around other consolidation opportunities and also the teaching window, within which spaces are available for use. The repurposing of space may involve making the space available for external leasing thereby retaining the asset for future contingency whilst offsetting the holding cost, adding to the campus activity levels and providing an estates platform for ...
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