Strategic Resource Allocation and Performance Measurement in Higher Education

Abstract

The pressing problem of resource allocation between subject areas within education in Britain was further emphasised by the publication at the end of May 1985 of the Government's Green Paper on the future of higher education. The Green Paper predicts that some departments, and perhaps whole universities, will have to close as demand and resources decrease in the next decade. The Green Paper does not say which subjects, which departments or which universities will close. Nor as yet do we have an adequate or satisfactory mechanism for making such choices. The current Green Paper is the latest step in a series of moves designed by Government to force educational establishments to select some subjects for priority in resources, and some subjects for diminished resources. The University Grants Commission (UGC) advised Government on how to allocate large cuts in funding among British universities. Some universities suffered cuts of up to 30 per cent, while others were granted small increases in funds. The criteria on which such judgments were made by UGC were never published. In the absence of published criteria, the judgments themselves were fiercely attacked:

Citation

Raimond, P. (1985), "Strategic Resource Allocation and Performance Measurement in Higher Education", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 9 No. 6, pp. 9-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb060358