What’s in the performance-based funding formula

The feds announce how they will allocate undergraduate growth places

In what would be big news if it wasn’t for a much more immediate student enrolment issue the feds have announced the formulas for allocating domestic UG growth places under the new performance based funding scheme (CMM August 8 2019).

The four quantitative measures all appear innocuous, employment outcomes, student experience, student success, equity group participation. There is also qualitative category for special pleading by each institution, presumably to explain why the first four are uniquely unfair to it.  There are bound to be divisions of devils in the detail, which officials set out here.

CMM awaits universities announcing anomalies, as soon as enrolment experts get a moment from working on the virus crisis.

Below: lots of ways to be an equity winner.


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