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Full Economic Costing (FEC), Academic Activity Profile Form

What is Full Economic Costing (FEC):

An initiative to introduce Full Economic Costing (FEC) for the university sector in Ireland was taken in 2007 on a joint basis, through the IUA (Irish Universities Association). The objective of the exercise being conducted by means of the Academic Activity Profile (AAP) is to ascertain the proportion of time that academic staff are spending on teaching, research and other activities, for the specific purpose of allocating costs. The outputs of this exercise, once aggregated across Schools/Research Centres, should provide the following information:

• the total costs of each university, by activity type

• the full economic costs of research, by major type of sponsor

• the full economic costs of teaching

• research indirect cost rates for sponsors (including the EU)

• average cost per student FTE in each subject area

• costs for each School and Research Centre.

What is AAP AAP aims to quantify the division of the total time, on a percentage basis, spent on all activities (100%) across nine FEC categories which have been agreed by all Universities. AAP Activities:

  1. Teaching Undergraduate
  2.  Teaching - Taught Activity
  3.  Teaching - Postgraduate Research Activity
  4.  Research - Sponsored with Output Activity
  5.  Research - No external sponsor with output Activity
  6.  Other Research & Scholarly Activity Activity
  7.  Other Income Generating Activities Activity
  8.  Clinical Services Total Activity
  9.  Administration and Management 
  10. Total of Sections 1 -9

(NB: total time spent should equal 100%)

 

Click here to download detailed task list for the 9 FEC activities