Transparency Review looks at time

Thirteen universities from across the region recently met at the University's School of Management to discuss an innovative approach to staff working hours.

Transparency Review project managers from across the north-west and north-east were addressed by Dr Nicky Hayes, of the Department of Applied Social Sciences.

The transparent approach was introduced after the Government demanded British Universities make research and teaching more accountable. The new costing exercise has been guided at Bradford by three principals: simplicity, accuracy and sensitivity.

(Left to right)Dr Martin Harper,Barry Barton,Liza Blackshaw,Kevin Jeeps and Dr Nicky Hayes

The group, which also included management accountants, senior and assistant finance officers and costing and pricing accountants, listened to the approach to recording academic, academic-related, clerical and technical and related staff time based on a diary exercise.

Transparency Review Project Manager, Barry Barton, said: "What differentiates Bradford's approach to other universities is that each individual staff member completes their own diary based on nationally defined categories of activity.

"On behalf of the University's Transparency Review Group, I would like to say thankyou to members of staff from the School of Life Sciences and the School of Management, of which 75 per cent returned the in-year time education schedule."

It was this schedule of a typical working week of staff activity in hours, prior to expression as percentages, which was the basis of Dr Hayes talk.

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