The definitions given in this appendix will be expanded in the Guidance Manual. They determine how the costs of different activities are to be aggregated for external reporting. Institutions will of course be able to collect and use different aggregations of data for their own purposes.
Public funds includes 'own-' or 'institution' funds.
It includes projects sponsored by charities as a significant part of their costs are covered by institutions. The term 'department' is used here and throughout this report to mean a management unit within an institution. The activity classifications. Institutions may consider that a single rate covering T, R and O is more robust for their departments of clinical medicine and dentistry. Allocating academic staff time to activities The following table could form the basis for a time allocation schedule for use in allocating the time of individual members of an academic department.