College staff face shared payroll
Payroll is the first function in which the possibility of shared services in higher education is being examined by the Department of Education, as part of a wider Government initiative to increase efficiency across the public sector.
The 27 colleges whose pay systems are being looked at currently have 60,490 employees and people paid for part-time or contract work. Each separately uses one of five different payroll systems. The same system is used by the seven universities and the 14 institutes of technology, supported at 13 of the institutes by a second payroll application.
