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Welcome – Open Staff Meeting

Welcome – Open Staff Meeting. Caroline Gipps Vice-Chancellor May 2010. National Challenges. Financial challenges for all universities. Control on student numbers for 2010 entry. Browne Review (autumn): An affordable and sustainable student finance system.

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Welcome – Open Staff Meeting

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  1. Welcome – Open Staff Meeting Caroline Gipps Vice-Chancellor May 2010

  2. National Challenges • Financial challenges for all universities. • Control on student numbers for 2010 entry. • Browne Review (autumn): An affordable and sustainable student finance system. Controlling Government expenditure. Ensuring that those who benefit from HE make a significant financial contribution. Balancing public investment in FT and PT provision.

  3. National Challenges • New Government • Labour: growth in FDs and PT, STEM & ‘New Industries New Jobs’ agenda. • Conservatives: postpone REF? • Liberal Democrats: scrap tuition fees and 50% participation target. Balance HE, college and apprenticeships.

  4. Difficult Decisions • Strict control on FT recruitment in 2010 despite buoyant demand • Difficult decisions for 2010-11 and downstream • BUT.. • HESES Audit appeal: we re-gained £0.5m • We have been awarded 90 employer co-funded ASNs • Our appeal on the cap has resulted in +50

  5. Difficult Decisions – college partners • Previous policy based on assumed growth. • Impact of the recruitment cap in Sept 09. • Reduced number of strategic partners: Wolverhampton; TCAT; Dudley; Stourbridge; Halesowen; Sandwell; Walsall; Birmingham Metropolitan

  6. Moving Forward – planning 2010-11 • Budget Position • 2008-09 = £13.5m deficit • 2009-10 = £5m deficit • 2010-11 projection is to break even • 2011-12 = 3% surplus • Review of overlapping activities: Marketing, Student Support, Staff Development

  7. Moving Forward – Innovation and Enterprise Strategy • UWBS move to City Campus. • Business Solutions Centre for the Science Park and for Telford. • ICD Ltd – finalising 2nd and 3rd pilot programmes; actively recruiting fee paying students.

  8. Moving Forward - curriculum • Learning Works • Validation of new curriculum is near completion • Communication to students and external marketing is still active • Working through time-tabling and transition arrangements

  9. Moving Forward - curriculum • PG taught review • By June 2010 we will have agreed curriculum principles, academic and validation framework • By December 2010 a new proposed curriculum will have been outlined • We aim to deliver the new portfolio in September 2011

  10. Moving Forward – capital developments • The Performance Hub • MG Block developments

  11. Key Achievements • Student Retention – HEFCE PIs

  12. Key Achievements • Graduate internships • A Partnership with WM HEIs and Graduate Advantage. • To date, we have placed 75+ graduates in the region, the most of any partner…… • 63% of them are from BME backgrounds.

  13. Key Achievements • Times Higher Leadership Award • Outstanding Registry team shortlisted. • Marketing Awards – Higher Education • MaC team shortlisted for 3 categories. • Launch of the Institutes of Media Arts and Gaming and Animation – 7 June.

  14. Questions?

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