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Chapter 8 of Getting to Grips with Being a Governor, SCOP, 2006. Paper copies are available from GuildHE (020 7387 7711)
Chapter 8 of a Report to the CUC on: Good Practice in Six Areas of the Governance of HEIs, 2004.
CUC Report on the Monitoring of Institutional Performance and the Use of Key Performance Indicators, November 2006.
CUC Report on the Implementation of Key Performance Indicators: Case Study Experience, 2008.
The importance of strategic planning has led HEFCE to produce a good practice guide for institutions (Report 00/24) on strategic planning. In particular see Appendix E on the role of the governing body in strategic planning.
There are numerous textbooks and articles on strategic planning. Perhaps the two most useful to governors are: 'Strategic Planning in Australian Universities' published in 1999 by the Australian Department of Education, Skills and Training and Professor Sir David Watson, Managing Strategy - a Guide to Good Practice, Open University/Society for Research in Higher Education, 2000.
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges in the USA produces a number of useful publications on strategic planning.
For governors in Wales the HEFCW has produced a Toolkit for Governors comprising reports and graphical analyses of higher education activity for Welsh institutions.
E. Hazelkorn has provided an interesting review of league tables, performance indicators and rankings in Learning to live with league tables and ranking: the experience of institutional leaders in Higher Education Policy, 21(2).
A Guide to Scenario Planning in Higher Education provides an introduction to scenario planning in higher education.

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