Motion
- Motion title
- Outsourcing
- Session
- 2008-2009
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2009
- Status
- Passed unanimously
- Motion
- HE33
- Motion text
IT professionals on campus aim to provide a level of service that is tailored specifically to the exacting requirements of students and staff. IT services play a key role in supporting learning, teaching and research across our institutions. It is testimony to the dedication and expertise of these AR staff that a high level of service has been maintained through a period of increased demands coupled with reduced staffing levels and an ever-diminishing budget.
Conference believes that the moves of institutions to outsource some core IT services, including email, is a damaging step which has serious implications for data protection, data integrity and audit control.
Conference reaffirms its opposition to privatisation and instructs HEC to collect data from institutions where this has already occurred and to produce campaign material to defend IT services and calling for appropriate funding levels.
- Proposing body
- Academic-related staff committee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2009/H/05-28/109/HE33