Adult-education services at university level

Tender description

Ulster University (University) undertook a procurement exercise (in accordance with the competitive dialogue process) to select an Online Programme Management provider to participate in a global online education venture. The venture aims to grow a substantial high quality and premium global online education portfolio for the University. The objective is to accelerate to a diverse, versatile and agile portfolio at scale with bespoke design and development for targeted markets that break from the traditional academic calendar and which lower common academic and professional services barriers of curriculum design, development, recruitment, delivery and support. The University currently has strong credentials in online education with a significant portfolio of courses delivered through online distance learning. The requirement from the successful collaborative partner for this new collaboration will include, inter alia, the following: — market insights to optimally prime the course development pipeline; — supported curriculum design, instructional design and media content development; — marketing, recruitment and student retention. The anticipated characteristics of the development are: — collaborative relationship; — revenue-share based on investment profile of Collaborative Partner; — professionals as the target student; — global in anticipated target market; — carousel in course delivery approach; — English language as the taught medium; — scale of the order of several thousand enrolled in steady state within a few years; — revenue to the parties of up to GBP 20 000 000 in steady state.