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UNIVERSITY PLANNING PROCESS

UNIVERSITY PLANNING PROCESS. PREPARING THE FIVE YEAR PLAN Christopher Edwards Vice-Chancellor. AIMS. Top 10 university : need to define Research 2001 RAE 31 st Research power 15 th SRIF funding 13 th Biological sciences/Medicine top 5 Teaching QAA results Institutional audit

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UNIVERSITY PLANNING PROCESS

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  1. UNIVERSITY PLANNING PROCESS PREPARING THE FIVE YEAR PLAN Christopher Edwards Vice-Chancellor

  2. AIMS • Top 10 university: need to define • Research • 2001 RAE 31st • Research power 15th • SRIF funding 13th • Biological sciences/Medicine top 5 • Teaching • QAA results • Institutional audit • Student satisfaction survey • Technology transfer • Top 4 • Excellence with a purpose • Science City

  3. Student recruitment • Applications from UK students rose by 27% between 2001 and 2006 (including a fall of about 3.5% in 2006 compared with 2004) • PARTNERS programme applicants 122 (2000) to 435 applications in 2006 (accepted 44 in 2000 and 156 in 2005). 98 schools and colleges now have a formal partnership with the University. Applications from PARTNERS schools and colleges have increased by over 60% since 2000. • Latest bid to HEFCE for additional student numbers (ASNs) providing 240 additional numbers for 2006 and 2007, plus 113 provisionally for 2008. • Should we be further expanding the university?

  4. Improving the quality of the student experience • The quality of teaching • Responding to the student satisfaction survey • Special focus on assessment • Staff student ratios • Infrastructure • Lecture theatres (£6.9m PCA) • Student Union • Sports facilities • Residential accommodation • Student services

  5. The Giants The Internationals Size, shape & strategic direction

  6. Research funding

  7. Internationalisation • In last three years we have more than doubled our international student numbers but these are now static • £2m CRM system • ?target for 2010/11 4800 or less • Singapore • Malaysia

  8. Income(FT students charged overseas fees)

  9. Note: Provisional Newcastle Income in 2004/05 is £276m, reflecting “year on year” growth of 10.6%, and a growth rate of 61% over the period from 1999/00.

  10. Spaces for Science and Business Science Central

  11. University mission • To be a World-class research intensive university, to deliver teaching of the highest quality and to play a leading role in the economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England

  12. Industrial action

  13. Industrial action • AUT/NATFHE demand for very substantial increase in pay over the next 3 years • 4%, 3% and 3% over and above the general level of increase in the public sector pay • Upward adjustments in the pay spine to further increase the minimum level of appointment for academic staff

  14. Background to industrial action • Formation of a new Union • Introduction of variable tuition fees • Full economic costing of research proposals • AUT/NATFHE claim that this can fund increase in pay >20% over 3 years (23%).

  15. Newcastle facts • Increase in income from tuition fees of • £7.7m in 2006/7 bursaries £3.1m (£4.6m) • £15.1m in 2007/8 bursaries £4.5m (£10.8m) • £21.4m in 2008/9 bursaries £5.4m ((£16.1m) • Cost of AUT/NATFHE proposals • £11.2m • £10.5m • £11.3m • (105% of available income)

  16. Newcastle facts • Normal year worked example • Pay award to cover basic cost of living increase (say) 3% • Cost of promotions 0.5-0.75% • Incremental drift (normal movement through the scales) 1.2% • Apart from the lower 3 points on the professorial scale further payment is discretionary

  17. Newcastle facts • 2003 total pay bill £123m • On the basis of adding cost of living increase, incremental drift and promotion awards would expect 2005 pay bill to be £135m • Actual pay bill in 2005 £143m.

  18. Newcastle facts • Pay modernisation has added 3% to our pay bill • This has been of particular advantage to those below the level of Professor. • For those on the first 4 points on the professorial scale there has been an uplift. Nothing for those above this.

  19. Current situation • ‘Unions have accused employers of reneging on the implied deal that a third of the new tuition fees income this autumn would be devoted to staff pay’ • ‘UCEA 12.6% best and final offer and represents 90% of the extra money expected when tuition fees rise’ • ‘stalemate’

  20. Student views • ‘We are completely against this action 100%’ (Communications Officer Ally Robson) • ‘I come to the unavoidable conclusion that the AUT at Newcastle University has been heavy-handed, manipulative (albeit poorly), arrogant and, at a national level, condemnably irresponsible and in severe breach of the trust that students place on those in charge of overseeing their education. The AUT has let down those it would claim to protect: the students.’ (Simon Winch, Courier).

  21. Academic Board Questions 10 May 2006

  22. Group One • "On 21 September 2004, the Newcastle University VC said that addressing the backlog in academic pay was one of his two top priorities for spending the top- up fee income http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/tuitionfees/story/0,12757,1306986,00.html Is this still his position, and can he provide details of the amount of extra income expected from this source in the next academic year and how he intends to spend this money.” Dr. Jennifer Toomey • “On the 21st of September 2004, you said that addressing the backlog in academic pay was one of your two top priorities for spending the top-up fee income, but now you are saying that the money has already been spent. Why were we promised this money only to be told it is no longer available and what has it been spent on?” Ghada Khattab, Speech and Language Sciences

  23. Group Two • Although I am not an AUT member, I am nonetheless troubled by the direction of recent events and so my question is: "The proposal passed by Senate on 2 May could result in some students graduating with a partial set of marks. Doesn't this decision threaten the integrity of a Newcastle degree?" I would be grateful if you could address my concerns at the appropriate moment. Dr Keith Brewster, Historical Studies. • I would like to submit the following question to be answered at Academic Board. The guidelines to the new clause added to the General Regulations on Tuesday 2 May state that, where professional accreditation is involved, graduating students must complete all their assessments at some point, even if they cannot do so at the normal time. However, the same provision does not appear to apply to non-accredited degrees. Please could the Vice-Chancellor explain this difference in treatment? Naomi Standen, Historical Studies • 'Irrespective of the outcome of the current pay dispute, are you not concerned that the emergency measures that were drafted in the university regulations last week run the risk of damaging Newcastle's national and international reputation and adversely impact on student recruitment in the long run; and thus outweigh any prejudice caused by the industrial action?‘ Luc Racaut, Historical Studies

  24. Group Three • "Does the VC acknowledge that Academic staff are overworked and underpaid, and that unless they receive pay rises over the next few years similar to or greater than those which he himself has received in recent years the effect on morale, productivity, and academic standards is likely to be very damaging?“ Dr. Colin G. Brooks, School of Biomedical Sciences • Does the Vice-Chancellor think that the current UCEA pay offer (6% over 2 years at the time of writing) is appropriate? If not, what is he doing to persuade UCEA to improve its offer? Diana Paton, Senior Lecturer in History • In 1984-1985, the bottom point of the senior lecturer scale was £14,135 p.a. Using the Treasury GDP deflator to account for inflation, the salary that an individual at the bottom of the senior lecturer scale should now earn is £52,158 (2005-2006). Could the Vice-Chancellor provide similar figures for executive (senior academic) staff?  Will the Vice-Chancellor act to reverse this erosion in the salaries and status of University academic staff? N.L.Simmons

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