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Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Results — Continued
Goal 3: Responsive and effective management.
To achieve this goal, the Ministry has identified two objectives
and three performance measures.
- Core Business Areas:
- Student Financial Assistance Programs.
- Executive and Support Services.
- Objective 1:
- Ministry business practices are efficient and
effective.
- Strategies:
- 1. Improve efficient delivery of student financial assistance
system.
- 2. Maintain and enhance the Ministry focus on core business
activities.
- 3. Continue to reduce red tape.
The Ministry will undertake efforts to ensure that its public resources
are used efficiently and that its responsibilities are executed
effectively. These notions are consistent with the growing expectation
among taxpayers for efficiency and accountability in government.
Two performance measures will indicate Ministry progress toward
efficient and effective business practices. One will measure efforts
to reduce the time required to process student loan applications.
A second will measure efforts to maintain or reduce the percentage
of overall Ministry spending devoted to program management.
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Performance
Measures
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Baseline |
2004/05
Target |
2005/06
Target |
2006/07
Target |
| 23. Student aid application turnaround time. |
Baseline for 2002/03: 17 working day application processing
time. |
Reduce to 12 working days. |
Maintain at 12 working days. |
Maintain at 12 working days. |
| 24. Ministry program management costs as a percentage of
overall Ministry spending. |
Baseline for 2002/03: 1.24%. |
Maintain or reduce. |
Maintain or reduce. |
Maintain or reduce. |
- Objective 2:
- The Ministry provides leadership to the post-secondary
system and ensures accountability.
- Strategies:
- 1. Continue implementation and refinement of the Post-Secondary
Accountability Framework.
- 2. Ensure high quality and timely data for accountability reporting
and decision making.
- 3. Lead the development of a multi-year planning process for
the public post-secondary system.
The Ministry works with public post-secondary institutions on initiatives
to streamline and harmonize shared activities throughout the public
post-secondary system. An accountability framework has been implemented
and a multi-year planning process is being developed to coordinate
planning and reporting processes.
To ensure that decision-makers benefit from the availability of
high-quality and timely data, the Ministry has collaborated with
colleges, university colleges and institutes to develop a central
data warehouse. A performance measure will gauge the accuracy, timeliness
and completeness of data collected.
Performance
Measure |
Baseline |
2004/05
Target |
2005/06
Target |
2006/07
Target |
| 25. Per cent of Colleges, University Colleges, and Institutes
meeting established thresholds for accuracy, timeliness and
completeness. |
Baseline for 2002/03: 82% of institutions met thresholds
for accuracy, timeliness and achieved at least 90% completeness
on all data elements in the Data Quality Management Plan (DQMP)
(as of Nov. 30, 2002). |
90% of institutions to meet thresholds for accuracy, timeliness
and 99% completeness on elements in the DQMP. |
95% of institutions to meet thresholds for accuracy, timeliness
and 99% completeness on elements in the DQMP. |
100% of institutions to meet thresholds for accuracy, timeliness
and 99% completeness on elements in the DQMP. |
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