INFORMATION STRATEGIES IN UK HIGHER-EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Currently most UK universities and colleges of higher education (Highe r Education Institutions) are re-evaluating the way they gather, proce ss and disseminate information for teaching, research and administrati on, for many this will mean radical change. The Higher Education Fundi ng Councils are encouraging all institutions to strategically plan thi s change by developing an institutional information strategy. This is despite the fact that no consensus exists either on the terminology or on its remit. This paper offers a coherent model for an information s trategy, relating the concept of information strategy to other key str ategies within the HEI. It also seeks to emphasize the importance of f itting the process of information strategy formulation into the organi zational ethos of the HEI. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd