1. FS&N School Staff Meeting January, 2013

2. Agenda 1.Apologies 2.Minutes of Last Meeting. 3.Matters Arising/Action Points 4.Staff Disability Network (Bryan Matthews, The Equality Service) 5.Items from Senate 6.Items from FMC 7.HoS’s Statement 8.Safety (LM) 9.Items from Student Education Committee (PK) 10.Items from Research Committee (BM) 11.Items from Postgraduate Committee (GW) 12.Admissions and Widening Participation (CO) 13.Finance (CR) 14.HR Issues (CR) 15.AOB 16.Date of next Meeting

3. (3) Matters Arising/Action Points

4. (5) Items from Senate (6) Items from FMC

5. (7) HoS’s Statement Staff Departures Leadership Chairs FS&N@Parkinson Industry Day Student Number Planning/IPE School Student Administrative Structure

6. Student Number Planning/IPE 2013 It looks like last year was a blip The Faculty is happy that our student number planning gets back on track pre-2012 blip

7. Student Number Planning/IPE 20132014201520162017 UG (Home/EU)5558606265 UG (Int)12 PGT (Home/EU)22222 PGT (Int)55 PGR Home/EU)55555 PGR (Int)1111`11

8. UG Student Recruitment Our numbers look OK – provided we get conversion (applicant to CF status; importance of Feb/Mar post-applicant days) Numbers down across the University?

9. (7) HoS’s Statement Staff Departures Leadership Chairs FS&N@Parkinson Industry Day Student Number Planning/IPErecruitment School Student Administrative Structure

10. Clare: Student Support (eg. non-standard queries about regs from staff and students) Assessment (eg. management of the process) Programme Support (eg. handbooks) Quality Assurance (eg. accreditation, collaborative agreements) Admissions (eg. management of process, conversion activities) (+ MaPS Faculty Lead for Student Support + School Academic Integrity Officer + management of School Support Office)

11. (8) Safety

12. (9) Student Education Committee (10) Research Committee (11) Postgraduate Research Committee (12) Admissions and Widening Participation

13. UG Applications Total Applications 2012 UCAS (12/1/12) 229 2013 UCAS (24/1/13) 360

14. UG Applications Food Science Total Applicants105 Home/EU87 International18 Offers made78 Rejected15 Decisions Awaited12

15. UG Applications Food Studies & Nutrition Total Applicants132 Home/EU94 International38 Offers made90 Rejected24 Decisions Awaited24

16. UG Applications Nutrition Total Applicants123 Home/EU87 International35 Offers made95 Rejected9 Decisions Awaited19

17. From these figures: Offers made (but not accepted, yet) = 263 The importance of ‘conversion activity’ (eg. Post-Applicant Open Days) cannot be over-emphasised

18. (13) Finance (14) HR Issues

19. Finance Failing to meet our student number targets and research income targets has hit our finance badly, In addition, we have had to pay £124K for bills that should have been paid last year (Perrett Laver, AV equipment) We will have an in year deficit this year but I don’t think that we will go back into cumulative deficit It is hard to be certain about our position until the budgets have been up-dated (March?) and we have more certainty over the Leadership Chairs In the meantime we have a bit of a cash flow problem Please try to be careful with School resources; see CR if unsure about expenditure. Final budgets and current balances to be circulated this week.

20. HR Issues 1% pay increase to salaries paid from 31 st January 2013 back-dated to 1 st August 2012 People Management Framework – End of February/Early March 2013 Leavers – Stefania Chillo Susan McCourt – returns form Maternity leave 21 st February 2013

21. (15) AOB (16) Date of Next Meeting: