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Institutional Group on Statistics (IGS) -
Committee remit & membership

Remit

The remit of the IGS committee is to:

  • advise the Council on the statistical information about Higher Education Institutions that the Council needs to carry out its primary function of making funding allocations;
  • constitute a forum for the discussion of matters relating to the statistical returns covering the fundable institutions and to be a channel for the communication of views between the institutions, SFC and other represented stakeholders;
  • provide advice and comment to the Council on the development of new methods for statistical aspects of funding, performance indicators or other calculations;
  • provide advice on SFC and Scottish Executive statistical publications and other publications relevant to the sector.  The group will identify the need for statistical publications to aid the sector;
  • determine the principles applying to the statistical returns and resulting publications for example guidelines to apply to accessing and release of information from the returns;
  • participate in the development of statistics on higher education in the UK, for example, by advising on the preparation of Scottish proposals to HESA;
  • provide inputs to cross-sectoral statistical forums and statistical consultations to inform policy developments; and
  • consider the implications in terms of staffing and other resources, for the fundable institutions of changes to the statistical returns or the introduction of new returns.

Membership

Internal IGS members

John Duffy (Chairman)
Statistics

Des Parr 
HE Statistics (Secretary)

Representatives of the following areas:

  • HE funding;
  • Learning and Teaching; and
  • Statistics.

External IGS members

View a member's 'Registers of interest' form, where available, by clicking on their name.

Ruth Adams
Strathclyde University

Jean Campbell
Heriot-Watt University

Gordon Cringle
Abertay University

Shena Mitchell
Association of Scotland's Colleges

David Jones
Aberdeen University

Simon Jennings
Edinburgh University

Kirsty Skidmore
Universities Scotland

Barbara Miller
Robert Gordon University

Position vacant
Scottish Government representative

Lesley Steele
Open University (Scotland)

Jane Wild
HESA

Fiona Wheater
Stirling University