FS&N School Staff Meeting October, 2014

Agenda 1.Apologies 2.Minutes of Last Meeting. 3.Matters Arising 4.Terms of Reference 5.HoS’s Statement including items from Senate and FMC 6.Safety (MH) 7.Items from Student Education Committee (PK) 8.Items from Research Committee (BM) 9.Items from Postgraduate Committee (AM) 10.Admissions and Widening Participation (CO) 11.Finance (CR) 12.HR Issues (CR) 13.Athena Swan (CO) 14.Monthly reports for PhD students in Year 4 (AM) 15.AOB 16.Date of Next Meeting – Wednesday, 3 December.

5. HoS’s Statement Senate FMC Industry Advisory Board UAFs Finance Student Intakes League Tables

(Includes planned new posts)

Our Income Sources (2013/14) Home/EU UG fees: 30% Int UG fees: 17% Home/EU PGT fees: 5% Int PGT fees: 15% – Income from BSc/MSc students = 67% Home/EU PGR fees: 3% Int PGR fees: 9% Research: 15% Miscellaneous: 6% (Total £4556k)

Our Expenditure (2013/14) Salaries: 42% ‘Tax’: 39% Direct non-staff costs: 13% Miscellaneous: 5% (Total £4330k)

‘Student numbers drive everything’ John Fisher, MaPS IPE, June 2014

MSc Intake Numbers

MSc Intake Numbers With Targets

BSc Intake Numbers

BSc Intake Numbers With Targets

League Tables League tables are now very important 1st: The Guardian (2015) – to Nottingham 2 nd : The Complete University Guide (2015) – to KCL 4 th : Times/Sunday Times (2015) – we were 1 st last year Why did we drop?

RankUniversityStudent Satisfaction Research Quality Entry Points Graduate Prospects Total Score 1Kings College Leeds Surrey Nottingham Reading QUB Newcastle Lincoln Times/Sunday Times 2014 – ‘Food Science’

Times/Sunday Times 2015 – ‘Food Science’ RankUniversityStudent Satisfaction Research Quality Entry Points Graduate Prospects Total Score 1 (1)KCL (3)Surrey (4)Nottingham (2)Leeds Glasgow Caledonian (5)Reading (7)QUB (15)Newcastle Abertay

Subject Tables Subject tables were based on four indicators; research quality, entry standards, graduate prospects and student satisfaction. These were combined using a z-score transformation with equal weighting for the indicators and the totals were transformed to a scale with 100 for the top score.

Student Satisfaction The percentage of positive responses (Agree & Definitely Agree) in each of the six question areas (Teaching, Assessment & Feedback, Academic Support, Organisation & Management, Learning Resources and Personal Development) plus the Overall Satisfaction question were combined to provide composite score. This was mapped at 107 subject level to the Times / Sunday Times subjects. If a score did not exist at this level then the 41 subject level data was used or, if that did not exist, 19 subject level. For institutions where an NSS score was not present at any of these levels the average score of the other indicators was used. Source: NSS, 2013 and Research Quality Overall quality of research based on the new 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. The output of the RAE gave each institution a profile in the following categories - 4* world- leading, 3* internationally excellent, 2* internationally recognised, 1* nationally recognised and unclassified. The Funding Bodies decided to direct more funds to the very best research by applying weightings. The English, Scottish and Welsh funding councils have slightly different weightings. Those adopted by HEFCE (the funding council for England) for 2012/13 funding are used in the tables - 4* is weighted by a factor of 3 and 3* is weighted by a factor of 1. Outputs of 2*, 1* and unclassified carry zero weight. It is possible therefore for an institution to have submitted in RAE but have a score of zero. The score is presented as a percentage of the maximum possible score of 3. Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce).

Entry Standards Mean tariff point scores on entry for first year, first degree students under 21 years of age based on A and AS Levels and Highers and Advanced Highers and other equivalent qualifications (e.g. International Baccalaureate). Entrants with zero tariffs were excluded from the calculation. Source: Hesa, 20012/13. Graduate Prospects Destinations of full-time first degree UK domiciled leavers. The indicator is based upon the activity of leavers 6 months after graduation and whether they entered professional or non-professional employment or entered graduate level further study. The professional employment marker is derived from the latest Standard Occupational Classification (SOC2010) codes. The data were derived from the HESA Destination of Leavers from HE (DLHE) Record. Source: Hesa, 2013/14 based on 2013 graduates.

6. Health & Safety (MH)

7. Items from the SEC (PK)

8. Items from R&IC (CO)

9. Items from PGRC (RE)

10. Admissions & Widening Participation (CE)

11. Finance Temporary Budgets Unspent bench fee allocation Employment of External Lecturers

12. HR New Staff/Returning Staff On-Going Recruitment E-Recruitment – launched in August 2014 SAP Self-Service Annual Leave/Leave Request Forms SRDS/Annual Academic Reviews Contribution Pay Exercise Dignity and Mutual Respect

13. Athena Swan (CO) Silver Award – Re-submission by November 2014 School Action Plan 2015 – 2018

14. Monthly reports for PhD students in Year 4 (AM)

15. AOB 16. Date of next meeting – 3/12/14