In confidence
professional local staff. A group of specialists drawn from Council staff in the UK and overseas, with the ability to help Representations implement new policies on programmes, is being developed as a task force.
Principal effectiveness measures for libraries, books and information
• % revenue increase from information work
• total value of ODA contracts won in any one
year
•% increase in target membership of libraries
• % decrease in number of information enquiries requiring headquarters referral.
12 Specialist work in education and science
(Academic links, advisory services, Education Counselling Service (ECS), Education Promotion Service (EPS), liaison with the UK educational and professional constituency, National Academic Recognition Information Centre (NARIC), project work including TCT)
12.1 Work in education and science is largely focused on providing the specialist input required by interchange work and projects. The principal expansion area is in projects work, for which a single management unit was created in 1989 to secure projects and to manage them on behalf of clients on a cost-recovery basis. The Council's
most important clients are the British government, the World Bank and, potentially, the EC.
The education and science interface: promotion and support
12.2 Headquarters activity in this area is both responsive and proactive. It services the needs of Representatives, the managers of headquarters operations and ODA in an advisory capacity; it also stimulates and develops new activity through its relationship with the UK constituency. The diminishing specialist resource is a growing problem; if relocation causes staff losses, this will be exacerbated. Revenue principally derives from ECS and EPS. Grant funds are used in proactive professional activity. Projected increases in Council interchange programmes and FCO SAS during the triennium and the priority given in geographical strategy to developing institutional links will demand maximum management efficiency and flexibility from the headquarters resource.
12.3 With the aim of supplying effective and efficient support services to internal and external clients, promoting British education overseas, and developing new business opportunities, principal objectives are:
⚫ to reduce the cost of advisory inputs without lowering the quality of the advice given
⚫ to introduce annual training plans to enhance the specialist capacity and improve the quality of performance
Financial forecast for education and science
All figures in £ million
Income
ODA agency
FCO agency
Other agency
Revenue
Government grants
Total
Expenditure
Staff and running costs UK
Staff and running costs overseas British Council programmes
Agency
Total
Note: this table excludes projects; see table 15.
1990/91
1991/92
1992/93
1993/94
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
4
4
4
9
9
8
8
13
13
12
12
46202
5
46202
1 6 20∞
13
13
12
12
56203
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