University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Annual Report August July 2004

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Major Activity Developed Corporate and Financial Strategies

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Major Appointments New Senior Management Team – Deputy Vice-Chancellor, 3 new PVCs, Directors of Human Resources and Estates Professor Phil Coates PVC Research and Knowledge Transfer Professor Rae Earnshaw PVC e-Strategy Professor Geoff Layer PVC for Learning and Teaching Professor Jeff Lucas Deputy Vice-Chancellor

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Major Recognitions Working Class Heroes – ranked 3 rd in the UK in terms of Widening Participation No 1 in North of England for Graduate Employment and 7 th in the UK

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Key Developments and Achievements Full Institutional Audit Planned or launched new courses –Psychology, Law, Media Studies, ICT Top-up Fees/Bursaries

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Key Developments and Achievements (2) School of Management –40 th birthday –World League Tables - top 75 part-time Executive MBA programmes, top 100 full-time MBAs –Top 10 Business Schools in the UK - Chancellor’s pre-budget report

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 SSIS - Peace Studies –Rotary International Peacemakers Conference –South Asia Strategic Stability Unit launch, 4 Ambassadors present –£650,000 Government contract to provide short courses to officers of the British Armed Forces Key Developments and Achievements (3)

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 School of Life Sciences –Launch of IPI –Optometry awarded £120,000 to research recognition of human colours –Institute of Pigmentary Disorders – treatment for Vitiligo sufferers Key Developments and Achievements (4)

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 EDT – Centre of Expertise in Manufacturing, DTI Informatics Innovation Unit opened Archaeological Sciences – ancient bones found in Yorkshire Key Developments and Achievements (5)

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 SLED – Foundation Degrees launched Health Studies – outstanding Teaching Quality successes Key Developments and Achievements (6)

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Key Developments and Achievements (7) Knowledge Transfer –HEIF 2 Funding – Research and Knowledge Transfer success. One of top 10 universities –Yorkshire Forward Centres of Industrial Collaboration –Customer First recognition

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Launch of Environmental Policy 21 st Century Estates Plan Second Student and Staff Satisfaction Surveys Key Developments and Achievements (8)

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Finances Turnover about £84 million – considerable growth Significant surplus – again, 3% Only 38% of our income from HEFCE Research Grants increased by almost 7%

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Our Honorary Graduates Dr Blake Morrison Professor Sir Alan Wilson Alan Tuckitt OBE Mr Peter Layton Sir Paul Nurse Mr Bill Huntley Clare Short MP Mr M G Wilson Sir Michael Bichard Mrs Joyce Kearney Professor Charles Sandbank

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Building for the Future Delivery of the Corporate Strategy – Balanced Scorecard Partnerships with City and District of Bradford Campus Improvements Branding

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Building for the Future (2) Improve and expand our course portfolios, UG and PG Capitalise on student applications improvement – 33% home UG, 17% overseas UG, 28% home PGT, 9% overseas PGT Maintain our research position

University of Bradford Meeting of Court April 2005 Building for the Future (3) Capitalise on improving League Table position –Guardian, 19 th April 2005 number 31 from 54 (2004) and from 69 (2003) –Excellent discipline strengths, 15 in top 20 including Biosciences 3 rd after Oxbridge universities Two more HEIST Awards – Postgraduate Prospectus 2005 (Gold), Creative Press Advert Campaign

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