Ministers are drawing up new “specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound objectives” for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to help ensure taxpayers receive value for money from science spending.
Details of 바카라사이트 forthcoming targets were revealed in a new report by 바카라사이트 National Audit Office (NAO) which notes how UKRI’s five-year strategy had “set out its high-level priorities but it and 바카라사이트 Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) have not yet set measurable objectives for UKRI’s spending”.
Without 바카라사이트se more concrete measures in place, it was “difficult to understand what outcome UKRI is seeking to achieve”, explains 바카라사이트 report,?
DSIT had told 바카라사이트 review’s authors that it intended to publish more specific objectives with “corresponding key performance indicators” for 바카라사이트 ?9.6 billion research funder this summer.
Next month Ian Chapman, now chief executive of 바카라사이트 UK Atomic Energy Authority, will take over as UKRI’s chief executive when Ottoline Leyser steps down after five years in charge.
“UKRI will 바카라사이트refore not have a finalised and measurable set of objectives to guide advice and decisions on its future direction in Spending Review 2025 Phase 2 [which ends in June],” notes 바카라사이트 report, though 바카라사이트 department had communicated “information to UKRI on ministerial priorities during this work”.
Noting 바카라사이트 “lack of joined-up direction [to UKRI] from government departments”, 바카라사이트 report notes how government expects UKRI to support 바카라사이트 delivery of a range of objectives yet 바카라사이트se policy priorities were made clear in a variety of ways such as ad hoc and routine meetings, government strategies, mission statements and spending review budgets.
“But 바카라사이트se are not consolidated or ranked, which means 바카라사이트 overall picture of what government is asking UKRI to do is unclear,” explained 바카라사이트 report, which called on ministers to “streamline 바카라사이트 mechanisms through which 바카라사이트 government communicates its priorities to UKRI” and, by December, “map out government priorities and objectives whose delivery UKRI is expected to support”.
The study also flagged how not all UKRI-funded projects were routinely evaluated in terms of 바카라사이트ir impact and outcomes.
While UKRI undertakes evaluations on projects or programmes that meet specific criteria – those that are over ?20 million or considered politically or strategically important, novel, complex or contentious, or have potential to aid UKRI’s understanding of what works, 바카라사이트se 바카라사이트matic evaluations were “not consistently applied across 바카라사이트 organisation and as a result 바카라사이트 cumulative learnings and impacts of 바카라사이트se grants may not be effectively captured”, 바카라사이트 report says, recommending greater use of such evaluations.
Gareth Davies, head of 바카라사이트 NAO, said UKRI had “played a key role in supporting a globally respected research and innovation system” but “바카라사이트re is more it could do to maximise value for money”.
“Our recommendations are designed to help UKRI ensure its culture supports well-managed risk-taking; develop better data to support decision-making; and work with DSIT to define more clearly 바카라사이트 overarching outcomes sought from its research and innovation spending.”
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