Performance Indicators long term

1
Performance Indicators - long term

• Requirement to publish
• Manageable set to cover range of activity
  including learning teaching, strategic planning
  and financial health
• Consistency with HE PIs for HE activity

2
Performance Indicators - long term

• Council has asked all sub committees and advisory
  groups to consider and report back for November
  2000
• Introduction proposed from academic year
  2001-2002
• FE Statistics advisory group has indicated that
  information for student based PIs should be
  collected through FES

3
Performance Indicators - medium term

• Current PIs will continue to be collected and
  improved
• Changes to FES will be introduced for August 2000
  enrolments to enable retention PIs to be
  generated centrally
• Achievement data to be taken from exam boards and
  matched into FES records.

4
Performance Indicators - short term

• Issue of single set of guidance notes with
  changes which reflect college comment on PI
  feedback and Benchmarking project- May
• Accept not possible to introduce changes and be
  consistent over time
• Issue of EXCEL spreadsheets - November for return
  in December
• College feedback- March

5
Changes in guidance- Coverage

• SARU - was collected separately for the old SEB,
  SCOTVEC and non SQA awards. Now a single table.
• SRR(2) and SPAR- for part time students was only
  collected for SQA but for full time was for all
  programmes. Now collected for all programmes for
  full and part time students

6
Changes in guidance - definitions

• Assessment credits
• Success in one 40-hour unit yields 1 assessment
  credit and units of other lengths are pro rata.
• Enrolments / initially registered
• Number who complete the college registration
  procedure or register for first assessment
  credits of a course
• Programme success-Unnamed full time awards
• FE- 15 or more for a programme of 18 or more
  assessment credits
• HE- 16 or more for a programme of 19 or more
  assessment credits
• and 12 or more for a programme of 15-18
  assessment credits
• Programme completion date
• Timetable date for completion of MINIMUM number
  of assessment credits defined for success in
  course
• Programme end date
• Timetable date for end of programme