OneHE and OPS

Global Benchmarking Review

2020

Academic Advising, First Year Transition, Retention and

Student Wellbeing and Safety

42 higher education institutions from 7 countries have already registered an EOI to join our global review

Global Benchmarking Themes for 2020

Academic Advising

First Year Transition and Retention

Student Wellbeing and Safety

Key Benefits

· An independent, sector-wide perspective on how each HE institution performs when compared to other institutions;

· An in-depth self-review to identify areas for improvement and good practice;

· A global comparative analysis on key themes in student success, including sector evidence of good practice; and

· Evidence-based approach to improving student outcomes and institutional performance for accreditation and funding applications.

We are very excited to announce that 42 higher education institutions from 9 countries have already confirmed an Expression of Interest (EOI) to participate in our global review.

Australia (15)

Australian College of Nursing (ACN)
Australian Institute of Higher Education (AIH)
Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors (AIPC)
Asia Pacific International College (APIC)
Central Queensland University (CQU)
Curtin University
Excelsia College
Holmesglen
Kaplan Business School (KBS)
Macquarie University
Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT)
Murdoch Institute of Technology
Polytechnic Institute Australia (PIA)
Southern Cross University (SCU) Expression of Interest
Swinburne University of Technology

New Zealand (1)

University of Waikato

Columbia (1)

Universidad del Norte Columbia

Mexico (1)

University of Veracruzana Mexico

Ecuador (1)

University in Ecuador

United Kingdom (4)

Middlesex University
Queen Mary University of London
University of Manchester
University of Portsmouth

United States (15-20)

15-20 Colleges through GlobalMindED. GlobalMindED are sponsoring these Colleges to participate. Institutions will be added when they have confirmed participation.

Project Aims, Deliverables and Costs

Project Aims

The Global Benchmarking Review will support institutions to improve their performance and provide evidence-based decision making for accreditation by:

1. Benchmarking key global themes, processes and data across HE institutions

2. Building capacity for HE institutions to participate and share good practice and challenges through collaborative networks

3. Validating global themes with an international panel of experts, and

4. Developing institutional, national/international recommendations, including good practice case studies

Project Deliverables

* Institutional self-review report with comparative data, including executive summary

* Peer review and calibration workshop, workshop materials and secure website

* Final report with institutional/national data and international recommendations, and

* Good practice case studies which have been peer-confirmed by international experts.

Project Timeline

PHASE 1: PROJECT SET UP

June, 2020

Key Activities:

Invitation to participate in global benchmarking review
Register your interest to participate
Confirmation of participation in global review
Zoom meeting to discuss and agree on key areas of interest in the global themes
Establish benchmarking template and data
Sign collaboration agreement
Complete institutional context statement and identify institutional coordinator
Pay project costs

PHASE 2: SELF REVIEW

July-August, 2020

Key Activities:

Institutional self-review using the Peer Review Portal
Practical support through online zoom meetings
Establish institutional group to gather the data and evidence for the institutional review
Identification of possible institutional recommendations as a result of the review
Identification of international experts to support validation of global outcomes

PHASE 3: VALIDATION AND ANALYSIS

September, 2020

Key Activities:

Validation of self-review reports with each institution
Collation and analysis of data for cross-institutional reporting
Identification of areas of good practice to share at peer review workshop
Validation of global outcomes with global experts

PHASE 4: PEER REVIEW DOCUMENTATION

October, 2020

Key Activities:

Workshop documentation and website
Calibration of results
Showcase areas of good practice

PEER REVIEW WORKSHOPS WILL BE ORGANISED WITH NETWORK PARTNERS AND THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL COSTS.

See below *

PHASE 5: FINAL REPORT & PUBLICATIONS

November, 2020

Key Activities:

Final Report with institutional, national and global recommendations to be used for accreditation and evidence-based reporting
Identification of possible research publications and projects from the global project

PHASE 6: GOOD PRACTICE CASE STUDY SERIES

December, 2020

Key Activities:

Good Practice Case Study Series which has been endorsed by international experts and all participating institutions and networks

Collaboration Agreement : These are due by end of June, 2020. Each institution needs to sign a collaboration agreement. A copy will be sent to you to fill in.

Please send this to Sara Booth at: Sara.Booth@peerreviewportal.com

Project Costs and Invoices

We can support all currencies – please email Olivia Fleming for invoice details. Local sales tax applies where appropriate

Email: admin@onehe.org

UK£

1 x Theme = £1,400

2 x Themes= £2,250

3 x Themes = £2,500

AUD$

1 x Theme = $2,500

2 x Themes= $4,000

3 x Themes = $4,500

USD$

1 x Theme = $1,700

2 x Themes = $2,700

3 x Themes = $3,000

US participating colleges are sponsored by GlobalMindED

EUR

1 x Theme = 1,550 EUR

2 x Themes = 2,500 EUR

3 x Themes = 2,800 EUR

*Please note that the peer review workshops are not part of the project costs

In addition to the project deliverables, Peer Review Portal and OneHE will liaise with key networks to hold Peer Review Workshops to share the global findings and good practice. These workshops will be hosted by partner organisations who may charge for attendance. Dates and venues TBC

Benchmarking Template and Questions

Benchmarking Template Questions

Thank-you to those institutions in the global zoom meeting and as well these three institutions [Portsmouth, Canterbury, Curtin] who provided on the benchmarking template and themes. This has been very helpful and now each theme has a benchmarking scoping statement.

The benchmarking template has been uploaded onto the Peer Review Portal and a link for each theme will be sent to you.

Each Institutional Coordinator will be required to fill in the institutional context statement and their relevant themes below. Each institutional review is confidential and requires a password access by the Institutional Coordinators. The Peer Review Portal automatically saves data and makes it easy for Institutional Coordinators to access. Once you have filled in the survey and uploaded the relevant evidence, and identified in your self review any in areas of good practice, areas for improvement or further improvement, click on 'Submit'.

OneHE and OPS (trading as the Peer Review Portal) are partnering to connect, support, and compare global practice in the HE by benchmarking key themes and retention data with experts and peers

OneHE is an online global community of educators that aims to make a difference in higher education through better teaching. OneHE will connect global experts and participants to validate and support the global review

Online Peer Solutions (trading as the Peer Review Portal) is a cloud-based review management system. Our motto is to support, connect and advance institutions in review. We will support HE institutions undertaking the global review through using the Peer Review Portal

Our Global Partners and Experts

OneHE and Peer Review Portal are proud to be working with our following partners and supporters. An Expert Panel will be established to validate the global findings and share good practice and expertise

GlobalMindED exists to help First Generation and underrepresented college students achieve career success by providing them with professional skills, resources, networks, mentors, experiential learning and social support via an annual conference, Campus Collaboratives and campus interventions that make grads employment ready and capable for promotion pathways

GLOBAL

ONLINE

SUPPORT

OneHE

OneHE will provide an online community to support participating institutions and individuals, host webinars and collate professional resources to assist the project.

Dr Mark Jones

Dr Mark Jones, Co-Founder and Managing Director, OneHE, has worked in HE in institutional, national and international roles as a senior leader with expertise in innovation, partnerships and standards. In 2018, he formed OneHE with Olivia Fleming and Simon Jones to help and support better teaching in higher education.

Contact details: Email: mark.jones@onehe.org

York/London, United Kingdom

Olivia Fleming

Co-Founder and Director of Partnerships at OneHE. Olivia has fifteen years’ experience developing partnerships in HE, working with a variety of organisations across the globe. Olivia leads on fostering partnerships to support OneHE’s goal of better teaching in higher education.

Contact details: Email: olivia.fleming@onehe.org

York, United Kingdom

For more information about OneHE

OneHE’s vision is a world in which higher education delivers the best possible student outcomes for the benefit of society and the economy through better teaching. Our mission is to build a global community of educators focused on better teaching to support the sharing and application of innovative and excellent practice. www.onehe.org

OneHE works in partnerships with organisations across the world that share our values and goals.

https://onehe.org/work-with-us#partners-types

Peer Review Portal

Online Peer Solutions (trading as Peer Review Portal) will provide support to institutions and networks on the self review, analysis and comparison of data for workshops and executive reporting. We will provide zoom meetings to support institutions gathering evidence for their institutional self-reviews and calibrate all results for national and international workshops.

Dr Sara Booth

Academic Director, Online Peer Solutions (trading as the Peer Review Portal) has international expertise in external quality institutional review, benchmarking , assessment and peer review, having worked with over 120 HE institutions across the globe. She has been a TEQSA Expert and has undertaken course accreditation reviews as well as an international expert with the University Grants Commission (UGC) in Hong Kong and has served as an institutional auditor: https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/qac/quality/auditors.html

Sara, with her husband, Ian, have developed the online Peer Review Portal (in conjunction with their IT team). It has now been endorsed by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) in Australia as an optional support mechanism for external referencing and external review ( See TEQSA Guidance Notes on External Referencing and ELICOS Direct Entry). See: https://www.teqsa.gov.au/guidance-notes

For more information about the Peer Review Portal

The Peer Review Portal is a cloud-based review management system set up to support higher education institutions in all types of review. There are no infrastructure costs or management fees. It works on a user-pays system and provides automatic reports for quality assurance and accreditation. There are over 185 HE institutions registered on the Peer Review Portal.

See: https://www.peerreviewportal.com

Contact details: Email: sara.booth@peerreviewportal.com

Tasmania, Australia

Some public reports available on international benchmarking projects

International Employability Benchmarking and Exchange Initiative: Good Practice Case Studies (2019): Online Peer Solutions, AdvanceHE, and Higher Ed Services: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WfNROpKA5v6U4aU6AoNU9igo7nXUOJaU/view?usp=sharing

Higher Education Pacific Quality Benchmarking Project with Ako Aotearoa (2017): https://ako.ac.nz/assets/reports/2018-HEPQ/cf160aadb1/REPORT-Higher-Education-Pacific-Quality-Benchmarking-Project.pdf

Promoting Teaching Benchmarking Guide: Higher Education Academy (2013): https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/promoting-teaching-benchmarking-guide

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