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PACT Solutions 16th October 2026 No Comments

Student records migration: lessons from the SOAS SITS go-live

Your migrated data has been ageing since the day you moved it Most student records migrations involve an early load into the new platform, months…

PACT Solutions 6th October 2026 No Comments

PACT named Business to Business StartUp of the Year at the UK StartUp Awards

Two weeks ago, PACT travelled to Ideas Fest at Champneys Tring for the national final of the UK StartUp Awards, and we came home with…

PACT Solutions 14th September 2026 No Comments

Modernisation without destabilisation: a strategic guide for Higher Education

Why modernising a live institution is uniquely complex Higher Education institutions have to modernise while continuing to operate. Admissions, enrolment, assessment, teaching, reporting, student support…

PACT Solutions 3rd September 2026 No Comments

PACT Solutions is now available on G-Cloud 15

PACT Solutions has been accepted onto G-Cloud 15, the government’s newly relaunched procurement framework, which opened for public sector use in August. For universities, it…

PACT Solutions 6th August 2026 No Comments

From spaghetti to strategy: five lessons from our work with the Royal College of Art

Integration debt is one of the most common, and most underestimated, challenges in higher education technology. Problems build gradually, through well-intentioned short-term decisions made under…

PACT Solutions 30th July 2026 No Comments

Trusted reporting in Higher Education: a plain-English governance guide

Why presentation-layer fixes aren’t enough In our experience, trusted reporting in Higher Education is rarely created by presentation layer improvements alone. A new dashboard may…

PACT Solutions 17th July 2026 No Comments

PACT Solutions named South West B2B StartUp of the Year

Big news: PACT Solutions has won the Business to Business award at the South West UK StartUp Awards! The win recognises our work supporting university…

Aaron Tyler 8th July 2026 No Comments

Nine lessons for getting change right in Higher Education

A statistic published by McKinsey puts the failure rate of transformation initiatives at 70%. Four years ago, when I first came across that statistic, I…

PACT Solutions 2nd July 2026 No Comments

Stabilisation playbook: regain confidence without a reset

How programme drift develops in Higher Education We find that programme drift rarely arrives as one dramatic moment. It usually builds through smaller points of…

Aaron Tyler 14th May 2026 No Comments

Digital transformation in universities needs to become business as usual

At the UCISA Leadership Summit, I was asked during a panel discussion how I think digital transformation in universities will change over the next five…

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