1. School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy School Meeting
6 November 2017

2. Applied Linguistics and Communication
SSHP
ED Mathew Davies
Director of Operations
Jill Entwistle
PA to ED Elaine Kitteringham
Applied Linguistics and Communication
AD Bojana Petric
ASM Hugh Kilmister
Geography
AD Rosie Cox
ASM Harriet Smith
History, Classics and Archaeology
AD Jan Rüger
ASM Alison Watson
Philosophy
AD Robert Northcott
ASM Kevin Smith
Politics
AD Alex Colas
ASM Jane Halstead
Psychosocial Studies
AD Bruna Seu
ASM
Dan Alexander

3. Strategic areas Research AD Rosie Cox ASM Sharon Durno
Learning and Teaching
AD Dermot Hodson
ASM Harriet Smith
Recruitment
AD Melissa Butcher
ASM Hugh Kilmister
Systems
Kevin Smith
Retention
AD Alex Colas
International
AD Julia Lovell
Postgraduate Research
AD Dermot Hodson/Rosie Campbell
ASM Jane Halstead
Equalities
AD Karen Wells
ASM tbc

4. Recruitment 17/18 Main headlines: SSHP College Applications +13% +6%
Against 16/17
SSHP College
Applications +13% +6%
Offers +8% +4%
Enrolments -2% -7%

5. New student FTEs compared to 2016/17
College down 7 per cent
Arts – down 2 per cent
BEI – down 13 per cent
Law – down 4 per cent
Science – down 17 per cent
SSHP – down 2 per cent

6. All students compared to 2016/17
College down 9%
Arts – down 2 per cent
BEI – down 13 per cent
Law – down 10 percent
Science – down 14 per cent
SSHP – down 5 per cent

10. Planned new student numbers (FTE) (with splits)

11. Planned total student numbers (FTE) (with splits)
Retention better than college average; but remnants of larger cohorts finishing

12. Planned and actual total fee income so far £k (with splits) by school

13. Fee income by dept. (with splits)

14. SSHP Income 16/17, budget 17/18
Will lose sig amount of HEFCE T funding for science subjects in 2 yrs time

15. Expenditure 15/16 versus forecast 16/17, and budget for 17/18
Pay costs increasing £300K a year

16. SSHP deficit/surplus (draft for 16/17, estimate for 17/18 including college investments)
Salary budget up by £500K

17. Planning round, finance
College as a whole - £7.8M surplus for 16/17
Surplus for SSHP in 2016/17 = £1.2M
17/18 college had budgeted for £500K surplus, after planned additional investments. SSHP surplus projected as £220K
Now likely to be a significant college deficit, as £5m short on fee income target
SSHP £189K short of fee income target (99%), but up 3.5% from 16/17 fee income
College looking at budget at the moment….
Emphasis on retention as well as recruitment – target of 10,500 FTE by Some way to go..

18. Portfolio Review and Annual Monitoring 2017-18 - first phase of Planning Round
Timetable:
Documentation sent out late October – more emphasis on student experience, NSS scores etc
Pre-meetings in early November. Data on Tableau.
PR meetings in Depts / teams in early December
Results/actions discussed at Exec 20 December
Annual Programme Monitoring: 23 January College deadline.
PR report signed off at Exec 31 Jan – actions fed into Strategic Plan
Themes
Embed /introduce new programmes agreed in 2015/16 and 2016/17
Continued consolidation of our offer eg. via shared modules, interdisciplinary programmes
Enhance and market Degrees with Foundation Year
Flagging of programmes relevant to internationalisation in SSHP/College.
Consider how to improve/enhance interdisciplinary programmes

19. Other items… Registry and enrolments Student Experience Review awaited
Annual research review – deadline Friday 15 December
Estates:
27 Russell Square project (summer 2017)
28 Russell Square (likely summer 2018)
25-26 Russell Square (??? 2019)
Master’s address to School – 28 November, 3pm
Annual party 12 Dec , 26 RS

20. International recruitment
School and College figures

21. SSHP: All international

22. College: All international

23. SSHP % change (applications/offers/enrolment)

24. College % change (applications/offers/enrolments)

25. SSHP – undergraduate international

26. SSHP postgrad taught international

27. SSHP postgrad research international