Welcome Staff Open meeting November 2009 Caroline Gipps Vice-Chancellor

Contents Financial Position HESES Audit HEFCE Funding Repositioning Exercise: Update Learning Works: Update Progress: NSS Successes

Financial Position IncomeExpSurplus/Deficit 2005/06£129m£127.7m£1.3m 2006/07£144.4m£ £0.1m 2007/08£148.5m£154m- £4.7m 2008/09£148.7m£160.6m- £11.9m 2009/10£146.9m£ £6.2m 2009/10 is a forecast budget position

HESES Audit Started in June 2008 completed October 2009 We have dealt with over 7,000 individual student data enquiries Meetings with Sir Alan Langlands, MPs, etc Million+ lobbying Audit is concluded. Financial Impact is under discussion NB: Non-completions here is not the same as drop out

What do these universities have in common? Imperial Sheffield Manchester Hertfordshire UWE Coventry Wolverhampton

HEFCE Funding Teaching grant is c. £50m p.a. Our student numbers have remained broadly flat for ten years. ELQ funding change: (-£2m p.a.) HESES audit likely outturn - (-£2m p.a.) Efficiency savings 09/10 £0.75m; 2010/11 and beyond? Will the FT UG cap operate next year?

HEFCE Funding Awarded 250 Additional Student Numbers (ASNs) for 2009/10 (50 funded; 200 ‘fees only’ STEM). 2010/11 ASNs: 75 for Performance Hub approved; bid for 100 in Healthcare Science (with Aston).

HEFCE Funding – future “Growth based on state funding cannot continue” Sir Alan Langlands: expect …..'planned and unplanned raids on the HE budget'. Fees Review

What do these universities have in common? Leeds Bristol UWE Kings Sheffield Wolverhampton

Repositioning Exercise – update Extended VR application deadline to 6 th Nov To date we have received over 250 requests for estimates and over 144 have applied so far At the end of November we will review the salary savings from the VR requests, set this against other pay and non-pay savings, and take stock.

HESES Audit – Requirement Every student to confirm study intention at start of academic year. -This should normally (for FT) be 120 credits -Students must then: Complete all registered modules Submit any mitigating circumstances before submission deadline Submit all final assessments for intended study -Failure to submit even one final assessment = HEFCE non completion for student

HESES Audit – Actions taken Introduction of online (e-vision) module diets – manages study intention requirement. Non-submission of assignments must be actively followed up – monitored by bar-coding submissions Regulations changes -resits within year -changed rules for extenuating circumstances -tightened control of student eligible period of study Where appropriate students will be withdrawn or switched to part-time – following communication with student by Student Office explaining implications

Learning Works Launched online on 28 th October Special mailing to local schools and colleges Online Vod casts New courses in UCAS and on our website Using Twitter and Facebook to raise profile Regional Advertising & online marketing Much curriculum design work still to be done

Progress: NSS 2009 Our overall satisfaction has gone up to 78% (in 2006 it was 72%). Sector is at 81% Our response rate was 57% (last year it was 64%), the sector is 62% Assessment and feedback has improved and is above sector average. 66% (up from 62%) sector average (65%) Learning resources is steady at 84% and is above sector average (80%)

NSS – Teaching on my course Teaching on my course Overall satisfaction %76% 77%80% Specific Question scores Staff are good at explaining83 (86)81 (87)83 (87)86 (87) Subject is made interesting72 (76)71 (77)72 (79)75 (79) Staff are enthusiastic75 (81)74 (82)76 (83)80 (83) Intellectually stimulating75 (82) 75 (83)78 (83)

Some Successes Graduation went extremely well and the Honorary Graduates were a great success Leading on £5.2m SPEED West Midlands programme KTP Award of £24m to run the regional programme. UoW is 1st in the region and 2nd nationally for KTPs Nalini Patel now shortlisted for the national British Computer Society IT award Students nominated for Royal TV Society Awards WLV Dialogue: finalist in CIPR Best Magazine category