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HE Performance Lab

An evidence-rich approach to improving financial and organisational performance.

Etio+SUMS HE Performance Lab helps universities address the most common and long-standing institutional challenges around financial efficiency, service quality, and stakeholder satisfaction by providing independent, tailored and, above all, actionable insights. 

Access your university's bespoke report, along with more examples of how we turn your data into valuable insight:

HE Performance Lab is our new and unique solution focused on improving financial and organisational performance in universities.

It takes an evidence-rich approach to addressing the key challenges of saving money, improving service quality, and increasing stakeholder satisfaction. Most importantly, HE Performance Lab provides universities with actionable insights to drive real-world improvements in performance.

Introduction to Etio + SUMS: Why our partnership combines the best of two worlds.
The higher education context: Why HE Performance Lab has come about.
HE Performance Lab: Directly responding to university challenges and priorities.

 

Now accepting registrations of interest for the 2025 Australian Universities
Benchmarking & Insight Cohort.

We're launching HE Performance Lab this year, and the more universities join, the richer the insights become. Leave your details to be first in line to improve your university's financial and organisational performance.

About Etio SUMS

As global education specialists, we’ve been helping universities prioritise investment and optimise efficiency for 30 years.

HE Performance Lab is the culmination of the partnership between Etio and SUMS Consulting International, bringing together our complimentary skills and datasets to provide universities with a new, evidence-rich solution to the most common and longstanding challenges in the sector.

The very best of two worlds:

  • Our benchmarking approach has been used annually since 2007 by New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Commission and since late 1990s in UK higher and further education to make better strategic and financial decisions.

  • Our in-depth analysis and recommendations for significant transformation are used by higher education Institutions globally to develop, prioritise and implement strategic change.