1. Celebrating Excellence All Staff Meeting – Tuesday 21 June 2016 Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Atherton and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Steve Bradley

2. Celebrating our league table position National Complete University Guide – 9 The Guardian – 8 The Times/Sunday Times – 11 International QS World University Rankings – 121 (up from 160) THE World University Rankings – 130 (up from 131) League Table group reviews performance and plans actions

3. Guardian 1.Cambridge (1) 2.Oxford (2) 3.St Andrews (3) 4.Surrey (4) 5.Loughborough (11) 6.Durham (6) 7.Imperial (8) 8.Lancaster (10) 9.Warwick (6) 10.Bath (5) 1.Cambridge (1) 2.Oxford (2) 3.LSE (3) 4.Imperial (4) 5.St Andrews (5) 6.Durham (5) 7.Loughborough (11) 8.Warwick (7) 9.Lancaster (9) 10.UCL (13) Top ten universities Complete University Guide

4. Best in the north west Good University Guide/The Guardian 2017(May 2016) Out of 119 Complete University Guide/The Independent 2017(April 2016) Out of 127 Times/Sunday Times University Guide 2016 (September 2015) Out of 127 Average Lancaster University 8 9 11 9 (1) Manchester31252828 (2) Liverpool5938 45 (3) Manchester Met60577765 (4) Edge Hill64716868 (5) Chester65948782 (8) Liverpool Hope79837980 (7) Salford83959892 (9) Liverpool John Moores8474 77 (6) UCLAN87999293 (10) Bolton93122123113 (11) Cumbria117121119119 (12)

5. QS World University Departmental rankings: 15 th - Linguistics 38 th - Sociology 46 th - Geography Departmental rankings: 63 rd - Arts and Humanities 84 th - Social Sciences International reputation THE World University

6. Highlights and successes Research performance – Research Excellence Framework (REF) outcome 18 th overall, 13 th for 4*, 10 th for environment – Lancaster up to 23 rd in UK for research income (1.04% of market share and plans to grow to 1.5%) – More grants being won (more in first eight months of this year than whole of last year) – £26M income in 2012-13 and £35M year to date

7. Research applications and awards

8. Highlights and successes Estate investment – £114M capital investment since 2013. More than £450M in past 10 years. £190M planned over next four years – Library opening – Award-winning Engineering Building – IsoLab and Physics Building – Spine redevelopment – starts this summer – Health Innovation Campus – work has begun – LUMS redevelopment – Forrest Hills acquisition – 10 year Capital and Infrastructure Plan under development

9. Selection of highlights (too many to mention…!) The Queen’s Anniversary Prize - Linguistics Employability - Improvements in graduate employment and salary / 83% currently gain employment (UG first degree, full-time, UK leavers) / Impacts our league table positions / Key indicator in what attracts our students National Student Housing Awards - Best customer service / Best moving in experience AND best university halls (sixth year running) Staff Awards 2016 - 70 members of staff to be recognised in July Environmental - Sector leading on carbon emissions / Green Gown Awards Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) - Higher Education Review (HER) Building our profile with on-campus TV studio - 100 th interview last month Campus in the City New Research Institutes Award-winning new Staff Intranet - Better than the private sector Security and Portering Team of the Year Award - Association of University Chief Security Officers (AUCSO) Response to Storm Desmond - International CASE gold award for communications response

10. Student recruitment UG Home/EU 2016 Upward trend – Applications 2013/14 – 12,420, 2016/17 13,757 Confirmation and adjustment PG Home/EU 2016 Also upward trend - up by 11% Post grad loan scheme Future focus UG – focus on quality rather than quantity (i.e. increase applications to improve entry tariff) PGT – grow substantially on the back of our PGT Review

11. THE Higher Education White Paper Teaching Office for Students – Merging the Office for Fair Access with the learning and teaching functions of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) – Technical consultation launched / Link between TEF and tuition fees Research New UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) council – Merging research councils, Innovate UK and research and innovation aspects of Hefce. UKRI will control a ‘common research fund’ New providers of higher education Students studying at private providers (eg BPP, College of Law) up 10% in 4 years

12. International focus – A globally significant university Key points – Enhanced approach to international student recruitment (highly competitive environment) – Thinking Differently – Developing strategic partnerships – Internationalising student experience and partnership developments – Study abroad

13. International teaching partnerships round-up 6,000 students studying Lancaster degree programmes overseas Lancaster University Ghana Malaysia: Sunway University India: GD Goenka World Institute Pakistan: COMSATS

14. Lancaster University College – Beijing Jiaotong University Joint institute with highly ranked Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) New campus will be called Lancaster University College - Beijing Jiaotong University Located in Weihai, Shandong Province (about 1.5 hour flight from Beijing) Chinese and international students will be offered undergraduate programmes in Computing, Design, Engineering and Environmental Science from September 2016, co-delivered by Lancaster and BJTU academics Masters courses in Computing and Engineering will be available from 2017 and courses in Business, Accounting and Finance and Logistics are also planned Graduates will receive a degree from both institutions

15. Your questions… Responses will be uploaded to the Staff Intranet