News and Updates from the Colleges & Services David J Allen, Registrar and Deputy Chief Executive 12 July 2011

DARO  Creating a World Class University Campaign – on target to achieve over £25.4m (including the match funding this will release). End of campaign communications will go out over the next few weeks.  The Government Matched Funding has been maximised and the Triple Match Challenge Donations exceed £1m.  Against the campaign target of 2,012 hours, more than 7,000 alumni volunteering hours have been achieved since 2008/09. This equates to over 4 years worth of time donated by 830 alumni.  Exeter is now one of the top 5 alumni relations offices in the world outside the United States (measured by the International CASE Alumni Relations Survey)  Process underway to start developing the feasibility study for a Diamond Jubilee Campaign

 The International Exeter short film, narrated by Jonathan Dimbleby, has attracted over 10,000 downloads. A follow up film ‘Science at Exeter’ has been commissioned by CLES.  University Office in Bangalore opened on 5 April  International Summer School 2011  70 students attending from many World Class institutions from 16 July- 06 August  50 Exeter students participating in summer school activities overseas  To-date 47 faculty have been awarded Outward Mobility Academic Fellowships in the 2010/122 academic year, tenable at 33 leading institutions in 9 countries.  First phase of residential accommodation at Duryard was completed in January 2011 International Exeter

 The fifth Annual Gulf Alumni Dinner was held on 31 March hosted by His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed Al Qasimi, the Ruler of Sharjah.  USA – the Exeter/Browne Scholarship in Material Culture and Globalisation has been agreed by both Universities.  International Student Experience; Exeter one of the highest rated institutions in the i-graduate survey. Exeter scored well for its international support office and student support and 91% of students rated Exeter as a good place to live.  Official opening of INTO building took place on 19 May.  INTO working with Colleges to extend their range of academic programmes. International Exeter Cont…

 Sport – Exeter is 8 th in the British Universities and Colleges Sports League (BUCS)  The University has been given a first class award for environmental performance for the third year running in the People and Planet Green League.  Corporate Services achieved “Customer First” re- accreditation this year Corporate Services

Academic Services  Cornwall Campus  Main construction contractors appointed for ESI and Exchange buildings and work now progressing on site.  Programme of summer works to address key campus improvements underway  Cornwall Review initiated and in progress  Employability  High Fliers Research has identified Exeter as one of 20 Universities targeted by the most UK top graduate employers  Exeter’s Graduate destination metric has risen from last year’s score of 70.3% to 72.9%  Reached target of 500 students completing the Exeter Award in 2010/11

Academic Services Cont…  New Staff  Student Information Desk team for Forum appointed and will take up posts from August and September  Head of Wellbeing Services appointed  New Arts and Culture Team established  Awards / Accolades  Letters of thanks from residents published in local press commending students on efforts in local community  External accreditation of the University’s ASPIRE programme by the Higher Education Academy  Awarded a £100k two year bid to support the development of digital literacies strategies across the University.

Academic Services Cont…  New Technology  eSR1 System was launched and has been a great success  An enterprise-wide Careers Administration and Management System has been procured. This will provide 24/7 customised access job and extra- curricular opportunity alerts, appointments, event bookings etc.  Developing an Exeter Welcome Week App which will help students during their first few weeks at University  Information Security  Now rolling out encryption to staff laptops to protect us in the event of loss or theft of machines  New software licence management software is currently being installed and will allow us to reconcile software usage with licence entitlement.