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Managing Grant Publication Mandates: An Interoperable, Implementation Model, Michael Organ, Ann O'Hea

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

How do we measure performance? How do we report it? For universities, performance can be measured in a variety of ways - the number of students enrolled, the number of graduates, theses completions, research grant funding obtained, research outputs in the form of publications, prestige attained by staff and the institution as a whole, and reputation. Some of these performance measures are easily quantifiable, others less so, e.g. prestige and reputation. And of course performance measurement regimes change with time, such that what was considered an appropriate measure at one time may be deemed no longer relevant or even desirable. …