Research and Research Training Management Reports

Research and Research Training Management Reports (RRTMRs) provide information on the research performance of higher education providers (HEPs). This includes information in relation to the following research funding programmes:

Research Training Scheme (RTS)
Institutional Grants Scheme (IGS)
Research Infrastructure Block Grants Scheme (RIBG)
Australian Postgraduate Award Scheme (APAs)
International Postgraduate Research Scholarships Scheme (IPRS)
Regional Protection Fund (RPF)

The Reports comprise two sections:

Part A – in which institutions describe their objectives for research and research training, their future directions, practices and policies for managing research and research training, processes used to ensure quality research training experience, collaboration and partnerships, and arrangements to manage intellectual property issues, the commercialisation of research outcomes and contractual arrangements; and
Part B – in which institutions report on their research and research training performance in a standardised format, which will enable performance trends over time and between institutions to be detected. Part B is intended to demonstrate the extent to which institutions have implemented the spirit and substance of the reforms announced in Knowledge and Innovation, focussing in particular on institutions’ identified research strengths.

HEPs were required to submit their 2005 Research and Research Training Management Reports by 29 July 2005.

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Background

Previous reports

Background

Research and Research Training Management Reports were introduced as part of the Knowledge and Innovation reforms announced in December 1999. They serve a number of important objectives, including:

ensuring accountability in public funding for research and research training through transparent reporting of HEPs’ publicly funded research programmes;
encouraging HEPs to adopt a strategic approach to the setting of goals and management of their research and research training activities;
encouraging a standardised method of reporting research and research training to allow an overview of the higher education sector’s contribution to the diversity and quality of the national research and innovation system; and,
informing prospective students, collaborative research partners and industry of the way in which each HEP has chosen to direct its research and research training activities.

In March 2004, the then Minister for Education, Science and Training, Dr Brendan Nelson, accepted recommendation 15 of the Evaluation of the Knowledge and Innovation Reforms Consultation Report to reduce the frequency of RRTMRs. As a result, DEST did not request RRTMRs for 2004. The Minister decided that in 2005, HEPs were required to provide RRTMRs to report on the 2004 calendar year.

HEPs are not required to provide RRTMRs in 2006.

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