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throughout the triennium. Both services aim to increase the number of applications referred to institutes from overseas markets during the triennium and to investigate markets in Europe.

12.10 The Council plans to amalgamate ECS and EPS as a unified service as soon as the respective constituencies agree. The earliest possible date for this is 1991, at the end of the Council's initial three-year contract with EPS subscribers.

Science and technology promotion 12.11 The Council's promotion of British scientific and technological expertise is mainly conducted through interchange work in country programmes (see chapter 7). Specific projects to raise Britain's science profile have been successfully implemented through, for example, the Britain in Europe programme and collaborative programmes in France, southern Europe and Japan. Council-funded research exchanges have led to Japanese funding of a five- year Anglo-Japanese research collaboration valued at £10 million; a similar project in muon research offers potential for UK-based projects worth a further £12 million. Bilateral

collaboration with Eastern Europe is a planning target for the triennium, for which the Council will seek to attract EC and other partner funding.

12.12 In developing countries, the Council's science work is largely designed to meet the ODA's developmental criteria; this will continue. The Council will also continue to develop research activities and training which make significant contributions to scientific knowledge and bilateral scientific relations.

Academic links management 12.13 ODA's review of its grant-funded

programmes for institutional links is expected to be completed in 1990. Plans and targets for the triennium will be drawn from this exercise.

12.14 The Council estimates that contributions from British and overseas institutions, individuals and governments to academic links increased the value of ODA's higher education grant by 88% in 1989/90. The Council aims to increase such contributions.

12.15 Links work funded from the government grant will focus on Eastern and Western Europe in the planning period and on Asia.

Principal effectiveness measures in education and science

• number of academic links administered

• total number of ECS and EPS subscribers

• number of consultancy days sold.

Projects work

12.16 Projects Group divides into three main areas:

• Paid Educational Services

• ODA projects

• British Council identification and development services.

The last is funded from the government grant, for business acquisition. PES and ODA projects are required to recover the full cost to the Council of project implementation. The main task for Projects Group is to consolidate and protect its market share in a new and growing business, particularly while it relocates.

12.17 With the aim of increasing the UK market share of overseas education and training projects within the context of the Council's aim, and providing efficient and effective management services, principal objectives are:

• to achieve the PES and ODA projects forecasts in table 15, which represents the group's operating target.

• to install an integrated project management system throughout Projects Group

• to extend projects work in Europe

• to deliver to the Council forty days of project management per annum.

Projects group: global forecasts All figures in £ million

Turnover from PES

CP2 figures

Turnover from ODA

projects

1989/90

1990/91

1991/92

1992/93

1993/94

7.0

11.4

12.7

14.3

16.1

8.0

8.0

8.0

8.0

14.3

20.3

30.4

31.6

33.0

Note: from 1990/91, CP3 figures at 1990/91 cash prices; CP2 figures at 1989/90 cash prices.

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