York scores well on efficiency, drop-out rates and research value for money in new performance indicators for UK universities
Posted on 6 October 2000
York has a very high score for successful completion of courses amongst its students: only five per cent fail to complete their studies. Consequently, it has a high 'efficiency' figure of 95 per cent. This figure evaluates universities' spending of public money on teaching. The national average efficiency figure is 85 per cent.
The indicators also reveal outstanding value for money in research for York. Research grants and contracts earned per proportion of academic staff costs are higher at York than at Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College and University College London.
Indicators on access show that York continues to recruit well from the state sector: its undergraduate intake mirrors the national proportion of students at state and private schools.
There are three main types of figures:
- indicators on participation by particular categories of student (mature students, students from state schools, and particular social groups);
- 'progression indicators', which focus on the success of particular categories in staying at university; and
- indicators on value for money in research.