I wrote the other day about the funding letter from Hefce to the HEA. What's not in the letter, but on the Hefce website, is this text about a forthcoming review of the HEA:
In the light of the changes since the last review, all four funding bodies have agreed that a second independent review of the Academy should take place in 2013-14. This review will aim to establish whether the restructured organisation is achieving the general priorities set by the funding bodies and its wider aims and objectives. The review and a report should be completed by the end of February 2014. Its findings will inform the 2014-15 grant letter to the Academy.
If you look at the impact assessment of the review that accompanies this review text, you find this:
Sustainability impact assessment15. The review itself will have a fairly low impact on environmentally sustainable development, but we do ask the Academy to work towards a policy priority in sustainable development, and the review will assess the effectiveness of the Academy in meeting our priorities. This is assessed as low impact compared to other priority areas we ask the Academy to work towards (such as student interest and equality) because sustainability is a much smaller part of what we ask the Academy to do.
Priorities laid bare, it seems, and further evidence it seems that Hefce sees sustainability in terms of separate parts rather than a joined-up whole.
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