Yes, some clarity on this would be extremely welcome. I don't think the onus should be on HESA either to keep us all updated, although of course that's much appreciated. But if Thomson Reuters want to seriously engage with the sector, then it would help their cause a great deal if they'd be clear in their communications. I've emailed them as well and so far haven't heard anything back from them.
Rob
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From: Academic, financial or space planning in UK universities [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Goddard, Vikki
Sent: 17 May 2010 17:12
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Subject: Re: World Rankings
If this is the case then I think we need a definitive statement from both HESA and TR. I asked HESA explicitly whether we still needed to provide the data that had been requested and was told that we did not.
I will check this with them again.
Best wishes Vikki
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Vikki Goddard
Director of Planning
The University of Liverpool
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From: Academic, financial or space planning in UK universities [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wesley Rennison
Sent: 17 May 2010 16:57
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Subject: Re: World Rankings
Apologies for raining on anyone's parade. The HESA finance data being provided to THES/ThomsonReuters by HESA is not at subject level as they have requested from each institution. I guess that the HESA data might just be used for checking the totals. I've emailed ThomsonReuters to ask about this but not had a reply yet.
One further thing, I previously asked about the large portion of income that is not directly attributed to subject areas and was advised to pro-rate this out for the subejct areas, so that the total for the subjects matches the total for the university. Does this match what others are doing/have done?
Wesley
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