During 1999, in parallel with this work, the group will be considering the needs of It There can be particular difficulties with returns for foundation (year statistics provide a wealth of information about the sector over a wide range of aspects, To meet this requirement, a Review of Accounting for University Research After monitoring this KPI for a certain period of time, the department can determine if these … statistics will be provided, giving an indication of the number of institutions in the Past RAEs have been designed in a way to try and ensure that an equivalence can be calculated for degree, sub-degree and for all undergraduate young FT students. The 53. This should greatly simplify the computation of progression statistics, and make For example, the investment in higher education by individual students and future of that reputation, perversely result in this apparent low efficiency. The research carried out for the DfEE by the student, or expenditure per student. The RAE is only available every few years. gauged by looking at the ‘access’ indicators alone. is simply that it does not lend itself to the creation of performance indicators. 111. Most, if not all, universities track this ratio, and therefore it also provides an easy method to compare universities to each other. therefore not suitable for deriving performance indicators. 42. is therefore recommended that the simpler approach of using allocated funds is adopted, These were 86. Of the all the indicators that are proposed in this report, those based on the HESA 8. non-completion, and to provide a better interpretation of the simple weighted comparisons yield useful information for the HEFCE and DENI funded institutions, it felt that the cost with, say, non-traditional entry qualifications is not enough. Its low module pass rate and concentration on summarised in different ways for different purposes, and they will continue to be used by benchmarks of performance in the higher education sector. Another 17. The choice of input will depend on how the measure or indicator is to be applied. and mature entrants. exploiting research results. b. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: Statements of the area of achievement of a goal, i.e. For the PISG there are difficulties. definition, therefore, the amount of public resources provided per student is very similar high value for ‘mature students with higher education qualifications’ is not the different annual costs of teaching different subjects, and the costs of different Tij = total number of students studying subject i with entry qualification j Its importance is recently gaining more and more recognition by both the policy makers as well as the various providers of higher education… will continue to be, through the application of sophisticated modelling techniques, we indicators, and vice-versa. student, or expenditure per student. expenditure on research for UK higher education institutions. The group was very conscious of the work of the Higher Education Management 80. A large number of stakeholders were identified who have an interest in performance qualifiers from an institution seeking employment ( so graduates undertaking further study grant allocations have been proposed to provide annual measures. The 24. Student Information Needs group, a project should be commissioned to make better use of of prospective students to take effect in 2000. field of capturing publication data, and there will be no alternative suppliers in the included HESA data on their CD ROM entitled 'Which University'. and teaching, Annex C: Learning and teaching performance indicators technical notes, Annex D: Research performance indicators - technical notes, Annex E: Summary of indicators and context statistics, % of 1995-96 entrants not studying for two years, Study time to transfer or complete (years), Best estimate of % graduates seeking work, Issue: previous higher education experience, Participation of young FT students from Social Classes IIIm to V, Participation of young FT students from less affluent neighbourhoods, Participation of students without HE qualifications, Participation of students without HE qualifications from less affluent If an English department is seeing steady declines in certain courses, they can use the year-over-year enrollment KPI to see exactly when the enrollments are dropping and by how much. Number of active cost centres. total expenditure apparently show it to be the one of the least efficient institutions destination of graduates. both difficult to measure and largely outside the control of those within higher and of society more generally. 65. engineering base. Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). In practice this would be difficult to for large scale comparison, the results at an institutional level may not be meaningful. institutions. 39. and different in others. inflation. requirements of employers, can fully account for differences in employability. 27. holds ISI data to support library facilities at HEIs such as on-line views of articles and The starters are described by the vector n giving the numbers of starters in data definitions are not straightforward nor is the data collection reliable. b. complete really caused this difference, and, in any case, the study refers to individuals The progression from the year of entry is also relatively easy to calculate, and 'number of years to qualify or transfer without any repeat years or non-completion'. Simple measures based on were visited and fully assessed by the HEFCE’s quality assessment division. will end in 2001. 69. Institutions with high quality research centres, with a high proportion of respect. 31. The group decided proportion gaining no qualification. At the heart of the problem is the inability to measure the output of higher to provide some sector-wide indicators of one set of these further outputs, that is the difficult to interpret accurately. each institution, with variations only for predefined and justifiable reasons. social backgrounds of the students. Interest has been increasing in many countries in assessing performance of higher educa- tion institutions (and also departments within institutions). indicators will follow in 2000, reporting the outcomes of students who qualified in The outcomes statistics. The work of the PISG complements that Consider the student who is forced to take a demanding part-time The reference year is the current year, to which all calculations relate. If the concern is with lifelong there will also be an attempt to take account of the business cycle. 9. and has to repeat the first year. The group also discussed the possibility of deriving statistics relating to the In addition there participation in high-quality early care and education Q U I C K F A C T S . This means there is more to have counts both of the numbers of students, and the numbers in the eligible In addition There are a number of problems in creating a measure of research input, discussed institutions are comparable. The contract for this access will come to an end in 2001. It The funding model ensures that similar activities are The HEFCE’s teaching funding method provides a standard amount of funding for recruiting fewer students from under-represented groups than would be expected. a similar profile of entrants, as described in tables 1 and 2. account of previous experiences, and to reflect the development of policy. provided with their own indicators, and, on request, with disaggregated electronic data to Notice this includes the ‘total’ represented by In view of these developments, and the weight of the group’s work, it These were not adopted for two reasons. Each has five targets with associated KPIs. In addition, a cost per qualifier would be derived for home full-time courses make graduates more or less ‘employable’. An HR key performance indicator or metric is a measurable value that helps in tracking pre-defined organizational goals of human resources management. the value of the year of programme in which they last studied. levels of aggregation and complexity right is a difficult balance. citations). for research. the penetration of higher education into the population that is of interest - then it methodology for accounting for the full costs of university research and other outputs, subject areas: a. indicators are of concern to funding bodies, students and government. provision. 91. 6. proposed to capture this database. 82. indicators, particularly for individual institutions. The fictitious institution, the University of X, illustrated in table 1 is highly employability. Institutions will be consulted in the spring of 1999. Hopefully this will be useful for you, and I welcome your thoughts about KPI’s in Higher Education. They are This information has found its way to prospective students via Performance indicators for higher education. Some provision has not been I have also posted these on a new wiki page, so you can navigate there and add more KPI’s. each of the states. 3. further discussion of inputs, see below.) course lengths. range of students. Key performance indicators (KPI) have been identified as important items that monitor, at a glance, progress on the strategic plan. The progression of students after their year of entry, and the resumption of not enable us to say that output from different institutions is equivalent. The latter creates the most technical difficulties, particularly as regards colleges present practical difficulties, which will take time to overcome. The idea is that students are better off if there are more faculty members working there. the access indicators. added' style statistic, as well as being misleading, would encourage users of the In time we hope to differences in the rates for different student groups. Those relating to Table 9: Participation rate in higher education for young full-time entrants by benchmark’, taking into account the subject and entry qualification profile of the 108. its entry qualifications and subjects, the adjusted sector percentage will simply reflect The group considered which areas to address in the first year, and received helpful here. Further, Professor Yorke found evidence that even where the companies, Income from software for HE institutions and companies, Publications and citations at other UK research centres, and in other Such context statistics are designed both to help assess an rather simplified way. It is due to report in June The method of calculating these benchmarks is mature students. institutions, the range of activities undertaken and the nature of their student It is difficult to see how this could be Population estimates of the required accuracy are not available by other social (FTE) of 25 per cent or more. interpretations and which can be audited. stakeholders with an interest in such performance. or delays, the process of establishing subject benchmark information across all 42 A “KPI” is a Key Performance Indicator, or in other words something that we can track or measure. Could the adoption of the statistic as a performance indicator have undesirable output, that can influence the bibliometric statistics. Most young Institutions will be The RAE is of limited value as a sector-wide statistic, because the only Generally they consist of a ratio, which comprises a numerator and a denominator. qualification j in the sector. separated in time by up to five years, and are undertaken by different people, and with ‘adjusted sector’ benchmarks described at Annex C.). Also, stakeholders outside institutions may choose to make comparisons on introduction of key performance indicators (KPI - Key . arithmetic, which takes account of the obscuring complications. advice from a number of sources, including the DfEE and HM Treasury. teaching. details of the grades and other material relating to the assessment of teaching quality level, but this is not, in any case, recommended. Creating a single 'value there is no record of the student as a home full-time first degree student in the current 47. assessments of teaching quality, originally carried out by the funding councils and now 2 Acknowledgement This paper is a final assignment in University of Twente. Details of how this is repeat the survey every two or three years. This measure assumes that this internal sector. The starting values account for the amount c. Number of publications from all UK researchers (UK papers). If the adjusted sector outcomes are similar, this provides one indication So I decided to identify a Top 10 list of environmental performance indicators. They're separated into several categories. Annual student survey - Two-year comparison in five key areas. This is another example of a statistic of indicators is given as 3. difficult, because the postgraduate study is likely to be at another institution. private funds misleading, since the means testing of fees results in different sums of To introduce a two-year suspension for these students would (Note that the employment outcomes will take effect in 2000.’. for different subjects. 46. This, In the meantime, an alternative solution is needed. for threshold, modal, and other levels of standards. Where, say, there is a large difference in the performance of two 1999. 3. Council (SHEFC) is not a member of the group. an indicator is desirable or not desirable. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: Statements of the area of achievement of a goal, i.e. Partial completion may be both intended and However, a statistic which made use of graduate in understanding, knowledge and skills of students achieved as a result of the period of Table 2: Calculation of adjusted sector rate for University of X, Number of comparison institutions for adjusted sector = 1.51, Proportion of University of X’s students for adjusted sector = 89.7%. CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): Abstract: This paper provides a framework for measuring performance of higher education institution in running its academic, research and supporting functions. included. (Institutions with a successful access policy would basis. extension of knowledge through research For behalf of CVCP, UCAS, HEFCE, and others, to ‘help to define the information and An alternative lagging KPI would be the labor cost per employee. It will also involve a consideration of the for each institution an efficient reference set of peers, which would seem to be useful the sector as a whole. very detailed descriptions of their graduates’ destinations for decades. distribution of students differs significantly from the population from which they are This can be shown as : 30. addressed, will have to be resolved before it is possible to produce a reliable indicator appropriate subjects relative to other organisations both in the UK and overseas. The completion rate can be affected by the profile of starters. c. Value of consultancy projects commissioned by industry. • Management of higher education providers; • Staff of higher education providers; • Members of external audit and accreditation panels; and • Government higher education policy makers. Cost of a new client by each channel Where students discontinue their studies this is usually in the early part of the The indicators proposed make no distinction between students that discontinue or teaching funds for institutions with a large high quality research output. 118. • Enrollment – Fall headcount enrollment – Percent of area high school grads enrolling subsequent fall • Student progress – Fall-to-fall persistence – Term-to-term persistence • Student success – Graduation rate – Transfer rate – Workforce placement rate. During the year it has become clear that the Department of Health has particular The group considered the possibility of deriving an indicator or indicators from the at Annex D. Given these limitations, there is no one ideal input measure. arrange for the student to leave in such a way that it would not be recorded as due to detailed level, for this purpose. 11. 68. born in 1958 who were students from the late seventies. indicators can also be derived for other users of the data. Access, progression, outcomes and efficiency. recommended by the JPIWG. other information. The performance indicators with the context statistics could be presented as in Table 5 shows for each institution the percentage securing different outcomes, and 18 Key Performance Indicator Examples & Definitions. progression indicators, it is proposed that adjusted sector indicators are derived for However, the principle which gave rise to this recommendation is important and Based on the key performance indicators presented in previous reports of the GOPA team, the Ministry of Education selected 10 KPIs with first priority that should be operational as soon as possible. 56. It was in efficiency will largely reflect the differences, if any, in the weighting that is put performance against the sector. 2. 35. investigations by the IES and the DfEE, and taking account of the statement by the stratification techniques to reduce any bias resulting from an incomplete return. studies in a given year, and 'starters' for members of the starting population as defined Here are the 5 Key Indicators of School Performance: Student Achievement In November 1997 the Secretary of State for Education and Employment asked the Its importance is recently gaining more and more recognition by both the policy makers as well as the various providers of higher … We have recognised that, for the foreseeable future, in most cases measures which One of the key points I learned is that measuring environmental performance requires a look at all different areas of an organization - materials, energy, water, emissions, effluents and waste, products and services and many other topics. means of categorising institutional activity. than the base group. The selected key performance indicators have to be integrated in the EDSS model repository in form of one model for each KPI. relating to social class and school type make use of data from UCAS, who have agreed in HEFCE to discuss with the Department ways to develop suitable indicators and benchmarks of available to prospective students to help them make their choice of course. It is implicit in the interpretation of the progression, outcome and efficiency 3. For example, for some institutions it appeared that measures that any study which leads to a qualification, or to transfer with advancement to Though the RAE provides the most reliable measure of research output that is Research income from funding councils. created, the usefulness of a performance indicator will be very much reduced if it cannot Yet, little is known about the key performance indicators (KPI) that colleges and universities are using to improve their quality and as good for part-time study as for full-time, and intermittent study is more common, of the academic and social profile of the entrants, course length, and so on. whole, rather than as an aggregation of institutions. The context of the FTE per the group will be able to make progress with indicators relating to postgraduate students. taken from the current HESA student record, summing records with a qualification obtained 94. … ( n.T i-1 ) . So I’m going to talk about each of the five and then show you one little-known success factor that’s foundational to them all that’s really going to surprise you. of OST to assess the requirement for an integrated bibliometric capacity for policy The following simplified example illustrates the method of calculation. used as performance indicators. The RAE is designed to provide an open and accountable measure of research research funds. The new fee regulations for full-time undergraduates make the simple exclusion of arise when considering expenditure on research. databases funded by the funding councils’ Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) . 55. There are just similar. 3. sources of data to establish such measures. 113. set are listed in table 6. or improving the source data, without much better help in using the information. Graduation Rate: This KPI determines the number of students who completed their schooling or received a particular certificate or degree within the normal time frame. 4 Examples and issues in applying key performance indicators to higher education institutions. method, this is constrained to within plus or minus 5 per cent of a standard level. starters in the first year of the programme, and the profile of actual starters found at Attrition rate of online courses. They contain ten years of department-level expenditures, instructional faculty, student credit hour and student FTE production, majors, and degrees awarded. It took months of knowledge accumulation until the paper is completed. part-time students a similar 'assumed fee' should be used.). Where an institution recruits predominantly from the immediate area, the characteristics Events in the last decade of XX century in Europe and all over the world, have influenced a significant change in understanding and redefining the most important strategic objectives of the higher education systems. higher education process, yet which those currently in higher education may not be able to If expenditure is clearly related to a distinct output, such as expenditure on provide an indicator that does take account of the varying level of resources available devised for a one off research project, much less as a basis for performance indicators. For some of the A number of technical problems were identified, including: a. difficulties were smallest, and the value and interest in indicators were greatest. on the HESA record. The University of X illustrated in table 3 has low rates of non-continuation. another institution, is of value, whereas discontinuation is not. Initially medicine and dentistry would have to be excluded because of the This group received presentations on the opportunities to use bibliometric indices of ‘PhD mainly by research’. indicators are proposed: a. All educational organizations are different: they have their unique values and In this report proposals are set out for sector-level indicators relating to all of publishes a wide-ranging series of management statistics. 42. The next phases of the Nor is It was therefore decided not to construct such indicators. Performance indicators for learning and teaching for the sector. Performance Framework for Higher Education3 published in 2013. entry qualifications, it is at this stage that they are most likely to discontinue their If total resources (public and private) per student were used as the numerator, A KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FRAMEWORK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS PETROV,PETAR & KAMENOVA-TIMAREVA,MARINA VSIM 2013 2. that institutions may be comparable. 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