Association of University Directors of Estates

Estates Management Statistics

The Estate Management Statistics (EMS) collection is administered via the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).  HESA is the official agency for the collection, analysis and dissemination of quantitative information about higher education.  http://www.hesa.ac.uk/

A HESA statement about the transfer of EMS to the Agency is at:

http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1612&Itemid=233

The HESA web site has a collection page for EMS at:

http://www.hesa.ac.uk/component/option,com_collns/task,show_colln/Itemid,232/c,C10042/s,10/wvy,any/wvs,1/isme,1/

Minutes of EMS Implementation group meetings can be accessed below by AUDE members (log in required).

Background on the Estate Management Statistics (EMS). EMS was established by AUDE in 1999 to provide Higher Education sector with standardized, reliable and useful property information to help managers understand current performance, promote sharing of best practice and drive improvements.

The main objective in setting up EMS was to give UK Higher Education institutions access to relevant information to enable better strategy and decision making.  EMS continues to be about improving estate management performance through facilitating access to objective information for:

  • monitoring and enhancing performance
  • demonstrating added value
  • communicating with the rest of the business and key stakeholders.

HESA International Benchmarking Study from PA Consulting: http://benchmarking.hesa.ac.uk/publications/

EMS Annual Report 2010: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2011/11_17/

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