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November 2004/43
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Consultation

Comments to be submitted by 20 January 2005


Self-assessment tool for people management in HEIs

Consultation

This is a consultation on the use of the self-assessment tool developed by the Universities Personnel Association and the SCOP Personnel Network, to measure progress in people management in the HE sector. Use of the tool by institutions will enable HEFCE to transfer special funding, under the Rewarding & Developing Staff in HE initiative, into the core grant for teaching. Comments are invited on the potential impact of the tool.

The self-assessment tool itself is available below in pdf format. Following consultation, we intend that the final version of the tool will be available for use from spring 2005.

Final version of self-assessment tool (June 2005)


To: Heads of HEFCE-funded higher education institutions
Heads of human resource management
Of interest to those responsible for: People management, Strategic development, Governance, Planning
Reference: 2004/43
Publication date: November 2004
Enquiries to:

Tracy Allan, HEFCE
tel 0117 931 7025
e-mail t.allan@hefce.ac.uk

Alison Johns, HEFCE
tel 0117 931 7069
e-mail a.johns@hefce.ac.uk

Peter Deer, Universities Personnel Association
tel 01223 332342
e-mail pjd33@admin.cam.ac.uk

Gill Slater
SCOP Personnel Network
tel 01905 855443
e-mail g.slater@worc.ac.uk


Executive summary (read on-line)


Download

Consultation plus Annexes B and C
[ MS Word 198K | Zipped Word 60K | Adobe PDF 114K | Zipped PDF 87K ]

Annex A: response form
[ MS Word 51K | Zipped Word 8K ]

People management self-assessment tool

This consultation is now complete. The self-assessment tool is available for download in Word format.


Executive summary

Purpose

1.    This document seeks views on the use of a self-assessment tool for people management in higher education, developed by the Universities Personnel Association (UPA) and the Standing Conference of Principals' (SCOP) Personnel Network, for the mainstreaming of Rewarding and Developing Staff funding.

Key points

2.    The self-assessment tool will enable institutions to assess their own progress in people management, while providing assurance to stakeholders, such as HEFCE, that they are supporting continuous improvement. It is a step towards moving the emphasis - in terms of ownership of assessment and regulation in this area - from HEFCE to institutions themselves.

3.    Use of the self-assessment tool should also provide sufficient assurance to HEFCE to enable it to move remaining special funding under the Rewarding and Developing Staff in HE initiative into the core teaching grant. This will reduce the administrative burden for institutions.

4.    Following consultation, we intend that the final version of the tool will be available for use from spring 2005.

Action required

5.    Comments are invited on the operation of the self-assessment tool for the purposes of mainstreaming funds. Issues for consultation and a response form are at Annex A. Completed forms should be returned by e-mail to HEFCE, UPA and SCOP by Thursday 20 January 2005.