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Part III - Annual TRAC

Section C: Staff costs

Chapter C.1 Academic & research staff time

In subsequent years

  1. Once collected robustly in the three-year cycle, time allocation data does not have to be collected again within those three years.
  2. Data from one year can be used as a proxy for the next year, provided there are no significant changes to activities and structures. Institutions do not have to repeat any one method of time allocation year after year, once they are satisfied that the method meets TRAC requirements, the data are fair and reasonable, and there have been no material changes from year to year in their activities.
  3. Institutions should survey heads of department, and use high-level criteria, each year to ensure that they identify areas that have changed materially. These criteria could include mergers, numbers of staff, numbers of students, RAE rating and type of work, volume of income from different sources, changes in staff:student ratios, changes in the ratio of support staff to academic staff.
  4. If there have been material changes in a department (size, type of activity etc.) then institutions should assess the impact on the allocations of time. New data (if required) can be collected through discussions with heads of department.
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