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Performance Measurement case study – KPI examples in UK higher education

Friday, April 30th, 2010

What

The annual publication of “Performance indicators in higher education in the UK 2008/2009″ offers a brief presentation of the higher education institutions in the UK, in terms of performance and the indicators used to monitor it.

Who

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) – a private limited company which has formal agreements with government departments to provide the data which they require, and it is funded by subscription from all of the universities and higher education colleges throughout the United Kingdom.

Why

To provide reliable information on the nature and performance of the higher education sector in the UK and a consistent set of measures of this performance.

To contribute to a greater public accountability by the sector, as well as ensure that policy decisions can be made on the basis of consistent and reliable information.

How

Following the recommendations of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, the Government asked the funding councils to develop suitable indicators and benchmarks of performance in the higher education sector. The Performance Indicators Steering Group (PISG) was established, with membership drawn from government departments, the funding councils and representative bodies. Since 2002/03, HESA has published the Performance Indicators on behalf of Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) who published them previously.

Results

The set of Performance Indicators (PIs) was published in April 2010, by HESA is the twelfth in the series. The indicators are used for all publicly funded higher education institutions in the UK and they currently cover:

widening participation indicators
non-continuation rates (including projected outcomes)
module completion rates
research output

Performance indicator example

Source: HESA, 2010

Nationally, over 90% of 17 year-olds in full-time education attend schools or colleges in the state sector. 88.5% of young entrants to full-time first degree courses in 2008/09 had attended such schools, Chart 1 bellow shows the pattern. (HESA, 2010)

Source: HESA, 2010

Reference

HESA 2010, “ Performance indicators in higher education in the UK 2008/2009”, available at http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php/content/view/1703/141/ (accessed 25 April 2010)

Tags: Higher Education, Higher Education in UK, Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), Performance indicators
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Monitoring ethnic minorities employment after graduation

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Employment rate of British students after graduation is another topic analyzed in the ‘Race into Higher Education’ report, which was mentioned also in a previous blog post.

The numbers presented in the report show that ethnic minorities are less likely to find employment after graduation, than their white counterparts: 56.3% of ethnic minority students who graduated in 2007-08 found work within a year, compared with 66% of white students. Both White and ethnic minority females are ahead of males in employment success by around four percentage points each. (Business in the Community, 2010)

Source: Business in the Community, 2010

According to Sandra Kerr, national campaign director at Race for Opportunity, “…only if more school leavers from ethnic minority backgrounds study at Oxford, Cambridge and other high achieving universities are we likely to see British ethnic minorities progress into senior management and key leadership positions.“(Business in the Community, 2010)

In order to support the increase in Higher Education for ethnic minorities and their chances to employment after graduation, the “Race into Higher Education” report makes the following recommendations:

British universities should monitor, report and improve on ethnic minority representation.
Increase awareness amongst ethnic minority school pupils of the importance of university choice.

The main performance indicators to support and monitor these initiatives are:

The report is available free of charge at: http://www.bitc.org.uk/workplace/diversity_and_inclusion/race/hesa_report.html

Additional resource:

smartKPIs.com (2010), “KPI examples for the Academic Education”, available at http://www.smartkpis.com/kpi/industries/education-training/academic-education/ (accessed 15 April 2010)

Reference:

Business in the Community (2010), “Race into Higher Education”, UK

Tags: Ethnic Minorities, Higher Education, Race for Opportunity, Race into Higher Education
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