Last week, the University issued a reminder to academic staff to complete the Time-Allocation Survey. This survey is designed to generate the data that the University is legally obliged to submit as part of an annual Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) return. This is a requirement for all UK Higher Education Institutions to be eligible to receive grant funding from Funding Councils.

For submission to be valid, the surveys need to reach a sufficient response rate (about 50% in large schools, and 75% in small schools) and our University is currently missing these response rates by some margin.  While we recognise that academic staff are overwhelmed by current workloads, we are also aware that financial penalties from failing to submit TRAC data will hurt us all at Cardiff University. Cardiff UCU is therefore asking academic members, if possible, to try and complete the time allocation survey before the deadline of 30 September 2020.

Last week, the University issued a reminder to academic staff to complete the Time-Allocation Survey. This survey is designed to generate the data that the University is legally obliged to submit as part of an annual Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) return. This is a requirement for all UK Higher Education Institutions to be eligible to receive grant funding from Funding Councils.

For submission to be valid, the surveys need to reach a sufficient response rate (about 50% in large schools, and 75% in small schools) and our University is currently missing these response rates by some margin.  While we recognise that academic staff are overwhelmed by current workloads, we are also aware that financial penalties from failing to submit TRAC data will hurt us all at Cardiff University. Cardiff UCU is therefore asking academic members, if possible, to try and complete the time allocation survey before the deadline of 30 September 2020.