HEIF 4 A New Hope

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• HEIF 4 A New Hope
• And
• Third Stream Evaluation Back to the Future
• Alice Frost and Adrian Day (HEFCE) (Jenni
  Chambers and Rachel Samuels in audience!)

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Outline of presentation

• HEIF 4 reminder of process and outcomes
• HEIF 4 issues for the future
• Third stream evaluation a taster

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• HEIF 4 funds 2008-11
• HEIF 4 outcomes circular
• HEIF 4 overview PACEC
• HEFCE commentary on PACEC report (commendeds)
• 129 HEIF 4 institutional strategies
• Third stream evaluation (PACEC/CEBR) progress
  of the sector 1999-2008
• external impact contribution of HEROBC,
• HEIF etc

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HEIF 4 outcomes
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HEIF 4 Timeline

• Sainsbury Reviewtook a very long time!
• October 2007 Sainsbury Review and Spending
  Review result published
• November 2007 Final decisions on HEIF 4 formula
  published
• January 2008 HEBCI data returned to run final
  formula allocations
• March 2008 Final allocations published
• April 2008 Deadline for HEIs to submit strategies
• April-May 2008 Strategies assessed
• June-July 2008 HEIs notified of strategy approval
  and funding release
• October 2008 Publishing final outcomes, overview
  and strategies

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HEIF Purpose

• Develop an infrastructure
• For engagement with business, public services,
  third sector and wider
• Supporting a broad range of knowledge and
  expertise exchange activities
• and enterprise
• Which result in economic and social value
• Not T and R
• Not primarily for income generation

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HEIF 4 Funding available

• 2008-09 112 million
• 2009-10 134 million
• 2010-11 150 million
• (HEIF 3 2007-08 111 million)
• Plus 8 million for existing Centres for
  Knowledge Exchange

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Institutional strategies

• All HEIs requested to submit an institutional
  strategy
• Acceptance of strategy by HEFCE necessary for
  funding allocation to be confirmed and released
• Strategy rather than plan
• Summary of HEIs overall strategic approach to
  engagement, KE and enterprise (all sources)
• Plans for spending HEIF 4 as part of that
  strategy

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Institutional strategies - Purpose

• Assurance of effective use of funds
• Information (to policy makers and funders)
• Progress in our third stream aims eg embedding in
  institutional mission
• Understanding how funds being used
• Need for policy development (in relatively new
  area)

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Assessment of strategies - process

• HEFCE assessed all strategies with advice from
• Independent expert consultants (PACEC)
• Our Institutional Teams
• Group of BC Strategic Advisory Ctte
• Where we had questions/concerns about strategies,
  we requested a re-submission in June 2008

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Publications (2 Oct)

• Outcomes Circular confirms all HEIs receiving
  previously notified allocations
• Overview Report PACEC summarises key
  developments in KE from across all strategies
• HEFCE Commentary our highlights from overview,
  and 8 commendeds
• 129 strategies www.ikt.org.uk

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• All 129 strategies approved!

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HEIF 4 policy issues
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Mission Integration
PACEC overview 08
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• Our Enterprise Strategy has transitioned from
  being a third leg of our institutional strategy
  (the other two being Research and Teaching and
  Learning) to being an underpinning philosophy by
  which we deliver those core activities.
• University of Reading

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Evaluation
PACEC overview 08
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Esteem indicators

• Following my speech at the Wellcome Trust on 29
  February, I would welcome your advice on an issue
  of considerable strategic importance to DIUS.
• I would be grateful for your considered advice on
  how we can best develop our understanding of
  institutions performance in different
  dimensions.
• In particular I would like you to examine
  possible performance measures of quality in each
  of the areas identified in the grant letters
  ..Enabling businesses to innovate
• John Denham to David Eastwood

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• Distinguish monitoring from - evaluation
• KPIs and funding metrics from esteem or value
  or outcomes assessment or user satisfaction

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Challenges of outcome or value assessment

• Either you are a smaller HEI and costs of systems
  difficult to bear
• Or you are larger HEI with more money for systems
  but larger range of activities
• And
• Either user is very busy and hasnt time to give
  you feedback
• Or they dont know!

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Cambridge-MIT Partnership Programme and the RD
Interfaces Programme Seminars

• User value/esteem focussed
• Effective and efficient organisational models
• Support KE/engagement policies practices
• Working with users to develop their
  understanding of what would help you and learn
  from their systems, as well as from other HEIs
  and research (KE in KE!)

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Other policy issues
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Targets of KE - Types of Organisations
PACEC overview 08
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Partners - Types of Organisations
PACEC overview 08
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Academic Staff Engagement
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Public and community engagement

• Partnering with National Co-ordinating Centre for
  Beacons of Public Engagement to analyse
  strategies and look at issues for future
• http//www.publicengagement.ac.uk/

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• Back to the Future!

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Aims and objectives of the evaluation

• The overall aim of 3rd Stream funding
• To support all Higher Education Institutions
  (HEIs) in making a significant and measurable
  contribution to economic development and the
  strength of communities

• This study aims to
• evaluate the impact of (mainly) HEIF funding on
  attitudes, culture and capacity within HEIs
• assess the benefits secured for the economy and
  society via the impact of HEIF funding on
  external private and public sector organisations
  and the community

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Establishing the evidence base

• An integrated programme of research with
  evidence derived from
• Secondary data on HEIs from HEBCI, HESA and other
  HEFCE sources such as HEI funding bids and annual
  monitoring reports.
• Case study research of 30 HEIs selected on the
  basis of a statistical cluster analysis.
• Survey research of academics stratified by HEI
  department (1,115 responses)
• Survey research of external organisations engaged
  in 3rd stream interactions with HEIs using
  contacts provided by HEI plus web search (313
  responses)
• External contextual data (for econometrics) from
  ONS/government

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Analysis of evidence

• An analysis of trends in third stream funding,
  activity and outputs by HEI clusters
• Assessment of additionality of 3rd stream
  activity using
• Subjective estimates from case studies
• Control group analysis of secondary data
• Statistical regression analysis
• Impact on academic culture and attitudes
• Impact on external organisations
• Impact on society
• Value for money
• Cost Benefit Balance Sheet (basket of outputs per
  m public expenditure)

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Third stream evaluation

• Stay tuned for the next exciting instalment
• Third-stream evaluation complete Dec 08