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Benchmarking Corporate Responsibility in HE
Universities that Count is a Corporate Responsibility benchmarking and reporting programme specifically for the HE Sector.Universities that Count is establishing itself as the standard for benchmarking Corporate Responsibility in HE Institutions. We encourage the sharing of best practice and celebrate performance improvement throughout the sector.
Based on the Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility Index, published in the Sunday Times in May each year as “Companies that Count”. The successful pilot project covered 25 HEIs, with 11 more completing a regional Index in the South West. The use of a common set of Index questions between business and HE respondents enables cross-sector benchmarking and best practice comparison.
Universities that Count is a partnership between the UK HE Funding Councils, the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC), Business in the Community (BITC) and CSR Consultancy, Universities that Count has been confirmed for a 3-year tapered funding scheme, leading to self-sufficiency in 2011/12.
As part of the development of the BITC Index to mirror the needs of the HE sector, consultation is taking place on two main areas of improvement - the sector-specific Impact Areas that Universities will report on, and the Guidance Notes which help participants to complete the questions in a way which best reflects their achievements.
After consulting with participants in the forerunner programmes, the timetable has been set to fit as well as possible with the changing pressures of the academic year. In the first year the timetable is:
- ‘Getting Started’ workshops Late October & November 08
- Index Completion Period December 08 to March 09
- Completion Deadline March 31 2009
- Individual Index Reviews April and May 09
- Feedback to participants June 09
- Programme Report published July 09
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