The Performance Reports
Performance Reporting is an integral component of the Institutional Planning and Performance Framework. It consists of a series of annual reports that support and inform management decision-making across the University. Each report serves a specific purpose and audience. They are delivered at the beginning of annual planning cycle and each contains the most up to date information available at the time of production.
Information on the availability of Performance Reports is available from the Current University Plans and Performance Reports page.
The University Performance Report
Audience
The primary audience for this report is The University of Adelaide Council. It is also a key management planning tool to review performance against the objectives of the University Strategic Plan.
Scope
Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are selected with a view to reflecting institutional performance across a broad range of activities to provide indications about the overall health, effectiveness and quality of the University. The KPIs include both quantitative and qualitative measures. Adding qualitative data to the quantitative data provides descriptive feedback and value judgements on the effectiveness of strategies and their impact on stakeholders. Where appropriate, the reported measures include percentage change over time and comparable data for other South Australian universities and/or Group of Eight (Go8) universities, the higher education sector and selected international universities for benchmarking purposes.
Structure
The report has been structured around the five key reporting areas of financials, learning and teaching, research and research training, staff and reputation. It provides an overall assessment of performance in each of these areas, and within each area, quantitative information and qualitative analysis against each performance measure so that there is sufficient information to identify trends and outcomes to make judgements about whether the University is fulfilling its mission and objectives.
The University Research and Research Training Performance Report
Audience
The primary audience for this report is Academic Board and the University Research Committee. This report will be presented annually to URC in March. It is also a key management planning tool used to review performance against the Research objectives of the University Strategic Plan.
Scope
This report shows a five-year history of intra-institutional performance against a list of agreed key performance indicators. It provides an overall assessment of performance in each of these areas, and by faculty within each area, so that there is sufficient information to identify trends and outcomes at a faculty level. It also provides a Go8 benchmark of most major KPIs.
Structure
The report has been structured around the six key reporting areas of publications output, research income, higher degree by research student load, progression from honours to higher degrees by research, higher degree by research completions and the feedback from the Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire (PREQ). It provides an overall assessment of performance in each of these areas, and within each area, so that there is sufficient information to identify trends and outcomes at a faculty level.
The University Learning and Teaching Performance Report
Audience
The primary audience for this report is Academic Board and the University Learning and Teaching Committee. This report will be presented annually to ULTC in March. It is also a key management planning tool used to review performance against the Education objectives of the University Strategic Plan.
Scope
This report shows a 5-year history of intra-institutional performance against a list of agreed key performance indicators. It provides an overall assessment of performance in each of these areas, and by faculty within each area, so that there is sufficient information to identify trends and outcomes at a faculty level.
Structure
The report has been structured around the four key reporting areas of student demand, student experience, student progression and staff development. Each key performance indicator is broken down to the individual faculty level with the exception of some of the information derived from the Course Experience Questionnaire which is presented at the level of broad or narrow fields of education.
The University Services and Resources Performance Report
Audience
The primary audience for this report is the senior managers of the University. This report will be presented annually commencing in 2009. It is a key management planning tool used to review performance against the Services and Resources objectives of the University Strategic Plan.
Scope
This report shows a 5-year history of intra-institutional performance against a list of agreed key performance indicators. It provides an overall assessment of performance in each of these areas, and by faculty within each area, so that there is sufficient information to identify trends and outcomes at a faculty level.
Structure
The report will be structured around the key reporting areas of staffing, finances, services and infrastructure.
The Faculty Annual Performance Reports
Audience
The primary audience of this report will be Academic Board, Faculty Boards and Faculty management within the schools. The 2008 pilot version of this report will be released for comment in April. It is a key management planning tool used to review performance against the objectives of the University Strategic Plan and in developing each Faculty’s Business Plans.
Scope
As information systems mature it is hoped that all data will be able to be presented at least at the level of the school and where possible and appropriate at the discipline and possibly the individual staff member. This report will show a 5-year history of performance.
Structure
Faculty Programs
This section is structured around the three student related performance areas found in the Learning and Teaching Report, namely student demand, student experience and student progression. Data is provided by program for each of these performance areas and programs are grouped by faculty. It provides an overall assessment of program performance in each of these areas, and within each area, so that there is sufficient information to identify trends and outcomes at a program level. All coursework programs with load in 2006 or 2007 have been included.
Faculty Research Profile
This section will be a further development of the research profile tool created to support deliberations around the Research Quality Framework. It contains data describing the number of publications, weighted DEEWR publication points, and number of higher degree by research students supervised (commenced, enrolled and completed). With the development of the Corporate Research System it will be possible to include further information linked to research KPIs.
Services and Resources
This section will provide intra-faculty performance metrics in the areas of staffing, finances, services and infrastructure.
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