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The disclosure of PBRF quality category scores – a guide for TEU members July 2012 Many TEU members have contributed information to an Evidence Portfolio (EP) for the PBRF 2012 Quality Evaluation. That information will be used to create individual component scores and an individual Quality Category (QC) pertaining to their Evidence Portfolio. Quality Category scores will be used to determine research funding allocations to your institution. The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) plans to disclose individual Quality Categories (but not component scores) to your employer (as is outlined in the PBRF 2012 Quality Evaluation Guidelines). The TEU has expressed its concerns about this to the TEC, and has developed its own policy that advocates for individual Quality Categories being released to institutions only in an aggregated form. On receiving the Quality Category scores, it will then be up to each institution to determine which members of staff have access to your individual scores. The TEC has developed guidelines about the internal use of the scores, however each individual institution will manage this process as they see fit. Component scores and Quality Categories are personal information, and this guide outlines: a. how this information might be used by TEC and/or by your institution; b. what you can do to limit the use of your information: o if it is distributed without your consent; or o if it is used for purposes other than those outlined in the TEC’s PBRF guidelines; and c. what you can do if you believe your information is being misused by your institution Use of personal information Under the Privacy Act an agency such as TEC may not disclose personal information to another agency unless they have reasonable grounds for believing “that the disclosure is authorised by the individual concerned”. TEU has received an opinion that there may be no breach of the Privacy Act in relation to the disclosure of individual Quality Category information by TEC to your employer. The TEC believes that disclosure of individual Quality Categories is justified, on the grounds that this disclosure is “directly related to the purposes in connection with which the information was 1


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