Performance Reporting

This section of the Report presents the performance measures identified in the 2003/04 – 2005/06 Service Plan, demonstrating the linkage to the relevant goal and objective, and the strategy undertaken to achieve the objective.

Performance measures are chosen to focus on a small number of critical aspects of the post-secondary education system.

The measures and performance targets in the 2003/04 – 2005/06 Service Plan represented the collaborative efforts of the Ministry and system stakeholders to find a set of measures that would provide for an accurate and reliable evaluation of post-secondary system performance. It was also recognized that the diversity and complexity of how post-secondary education is delivered may produce anomalies in a given year, which presents significant challenges to any method of performance measurement.

Five measures identified in the 2003/04 – 2005/06 Service Plan used student full-time equivalents (FTEs)² as their unit of measurement and identified incremental annual growth targets as well as overall totals. For this Service Plan Report, it was determined that only total FTE levels were meaningful, and that performance is more appropriately assessed in terms of utilization rates. The utilization rate is the percentage of targeted FTEs that are actually delivered.

Further information on many of the performance measures — such as the rationale and context for the measure, the data upon which it is based and the source of the data, and methodological considerations regarding the measure — may be found in the Standards Manual for Accountability Framework Performance Measures (see: www.aved.gov.bc.ca/accountability/standards_manual04_05.pdf).

		Goal 1: A Top Notch Post-Secondary Education System

		Goal 2: Economic and Social Development

		Goal 3: Responsive and Effective Management