Recruitment Agency Spend & Payroll

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Dear University of Dundee,

Please could you provide me with the total value of spend on staff recruitment agencies, which agencies were used,
and how much was spent with each agency for the academic year 2021/2022?

Also, please could you provide me with who your payroll provider is/ or what system you use to payroll your temporary staff ?

Yours faithfully,

Simran Aujla

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Dear Simran Aujla
Many thanks for your request for information. 

Please could you provide me with the total value of spend on staff
recruitment agencies, which agencies were used, and how much was spent
with each agency for the academic year 2021/2022?

Total agency spend for 2021/22 was £280,256. I am afraid that we will only
supply the total spend. 

The recruitment of international students to the UK and to other overseas
markets is a highly competitive marketplace. The University believes that
disclosing this information would substantially prejudice the commercial
interests of the University of Dundee and of its agents is therefore
exempt from disclosure (per S.16 and S.33(1)(b) of FoI(S)A). The
University relies significantly on these commercial contracts for tuition
fee income.  The agents who undertake this business to generate income
rely on such commercial arrangements with the University, and negotiate
pricing and other commercially sensitive information, such as recruitment
targets.   

Disclosing this information would impact the University and the agent, and
ultimately how the marketplace operates.   

  

The University is required to have regard to the public interest in the
application of this exemption. Whilst the University recognises the
interest in the proper management of its resources, in this instance it
feels that this outweighed by the public interest in a competitive
marketplace operating on a without-prejudice basis. 

Also, please could you provide me with who your payroll provider is/ or
what system you use to payroll your temporary staff?

For temporary staff employed and paid by the University and not through an
agency, our payroll is run in-house and our payroll software is
OneUniversity provided by TechnologyOne. 

​I hope that this is helpful. You have the right to ask us to review our
answer if you wish. 

Kind regards

Caroline Brown

FOI Team

 

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Dear University of Dundee,

Please could you provide me with the total value of spend on staff
recruitment agencies, which agencies were used,
and how much was spent with each agency for the academic year 2021/2022?

Also, please could you provide me with who your payroll provider is/ or
what system you use to payroll your temporary staff ?

Yours faithfully,

Simran Aujla

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