Checks and balances

Why measure?To ask (and act!) yourself regularly…

…are we (still on track) reaching our strategic goals?

To see.. - How is the progress of our strategic goals?- Do we need to adapt any of the actions? Are the actions still the right ones?- Or do we need to adapt our strategic goal?

But also:- To legitimize your work, show (in between) results to stakeholders in- and

outside

To start with…

Who has experience in setting indicators on strategy

in education?

And...who has experience in setting indicators on

in internationalisation?

Types of indicators

• Quantitative Indicators Output Indicators

• Qualitative Indicators Outcome / Performance Indicators

Indicators relate to your strategic goals!

Output indicators

- help you to monitor whether you are doing what you planned (outputs) - do not give an idea of the effect that is brought about by these outputs.

That is why it is important to monitor both the implementation of your actions and the changes that we think are being produced as a result –positive or negative, intended or unintended.

Examples:• The number of students subscribing for higher education after VET• Employment after graduation (By age, gender, Occupation)• X-level in language learning

Outcome / Performance indicators

Qualitative indicators are usually indicators of change (outcomes). Answering these types of questions give us information that indicates whether our work is leading to the changes in people’s lives, skills and attitudes that we want to achieve.

Examples:• Students are more flexible• Motivated staff / students• Labourmarket is satisfied with level of skills of students

The results of the qualitative indicators are usually expressed as percentage change e.g.% increase in…

Source

• What sources are already there?

Within the school/regionally/nationally/by the NA?

• What sources need to be developed?

Is there an existing system/dashboard these indicators can be part of?

Who would be responsible/following-up?

How cán it look…

Strategic goal Results Indicator(s) Target in 20..?

Source Frequency By whom?

Time to start working on your indicators !(institutional pairs)