Performance contractsPerformance Agreements • January 24th, 2014
• performance contracts typically are not legally enforceable documents. Instead, they are more often non-binding regulatory agreements negotiated between governments or buffer bodies and tertiary education institutions which can take a number of forms. The agreements may be with entire systems of institutions or individual institutions. All or a portion of funding may be based on whether institutions meet the requirements in the contracts. The agreements can be prospectively funded or reviewed and acted upon retrospectively. In some instances, such contracts can be viewed as a punitive instrument rather than as incentives, as failure to meet goals may result in reduced funding. (p. 17).
A performance agreement is a document summarising the understanding between the US president and his cabinet secretary regarding the expected results andPerformance Agreements • May 17th, 2022
The American attempt is to be judged by what it tried rather than what was achieved. It broke new ground in attempting to instil accountability at the highest levels in government. It was expected to be evolutionary and thus it may be too early to judge its final fate. The reform pendulum has swung back, but the force for reform is alive and well even in the Bush administration. Thus, it is only a matter of time before this instrument will be back
Performance Agreements in Denmark, Ontario and the NetherlandsPerformance Agreements • September 30th, 2020
Although several countries have experience with some form of performance agreements in higher education, such agreements are a relatively new phenomenon in the Norwegian context. Performance agreements (in Norway: utviklingsavtaler or development contracts) were proposed by an expert group appointed by the Ministry of Education and Research in 2014. In the period 2016-2019, the agreements were gradually introduced as a pilot scheme for the university and college sector.
