1. Vice-Chancellor’s All Staff Open Meeting Monday 23 November 2015 Questions?

2. Focus on National Student Survey 91% (8 th ) for overall satisfaction in NSS BUT, 43 rd for teaching quality and 38 th for student satisfaction Improvements in the NSS crucial for a top 10 position for Lancaster Each department has developed an action plan

3. What does the Green Paper mean for us? Released Friday 6 th November - outlines plans for future of higher education Full impact apparent once outcome of the Spending Review is known Key highlights: – Teaching Excellence Framework - Improving the standard of teaching and linking it to fees – Widening participation - Targets to recruit more disadvantaged and ethnic minority students – Research councils and research funding - No specific proposals yet – Introduce an Office for Students as a ‘student champion’ – Market reforms to increase competition

4. Green Paper says: ‘TEF aims to build a culture where teaching has equal status with research’ Current metrics for teaching quality will be reviewed TEF will operate with a limited scope for the next two years using Quality Assurance Agency judgements to award institutions with TEF level 1 Full version of TEF will combine improved metrics with a qualitative application process, assessed by expert panels Levels will be awarded for set periods (3-5 years) and institutions will have an annual opportunity to apply for higher levels Universities that do well in the TEF will be able to raise fees in line with inflation Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

5. How are we doing? UK League Tables – 10 th Guardian, 9 th Complete University Guide, 11 th The Times/ Sunday Times, 15 th Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey Shortlisted Times Higher Education Awards, University of the Year Employment – 84.9% graduate employment (grad level) – Lowest unemployment rate of all competitors 2.8% – 23.4% went into further study

6. Sunday Times League Table – It’s tough at the top 1000-974 points: Oxford, Cambridge --------------------------------Positions 1-2--------------------------------------- 886-860: Imperial, St Andrews, Durham ---------------------------------Positions 3-5--------------------------------------- 813-791 pts: Warwick, Exeter, Surrey, LSE, UCL, Lancaster (799), Bath, Loughborough --------------------------------Positions 6-13------------------------------------- Leeds (779 pts) --------------------------------Position 14------------------------------------- York (756 pts), Southampton (755 pts)……….Glasgow (704 pts) -------------------------------Positions 15-26-----------------------------------

7. Registration update Undergraduate full-time 2014 Registrations 2015 Registrations* Home-EU OverseasOverall Home-EU OverseasOverall 2409687 3096 2608 6773285 Postgraduate Taught full-time 2014 Registrations 2015 Registrations* Home-EU OverseasOverall Home-EU OverseasOverall 472 715 1187 454 6791133 TOTAL OVERALL (2014 UG and PGT) 4283 TOTAL OVERALL (2015 UG and PGT) 4418 *As of 19 th October 2015

8. Research applications and success rates 2013/142014/15 Number of research applications634 763 Value of research applications£137M £201M Lancaster has second highest success rate for research council grant apps in the UK 10 highestApplicationsSuccess Rate (%) Loughborough6043 Lancaster10040 Heriot-Watt7338 Warwick16436 York13335 Nottingham20035 St Andrews9034 City2733 Cambridge36632 Manchester31332

9. Campus Investment £135M investment planned for next three years Library Fully complete 2016 Chemistry Complete 2016 Physics Started 2015 IsoLab Started 2015 Ash House Complete 2015 LUMS Expected to start 2017. Open by summer 2019

10. Campus Investment Health Innovation Campus Solutions to social and economic challenges posed by ageing Located next to University campus Could be open by 2018 The Spine Remodelling Royal Institute of British Architects Competition (RIBA) – Rick Mather Architects Appointed ‘Design the Spine’ – Ideas include digital signage, celebrating the rain, outdoor gym equipment, environmentally friendly and appreciating the view Work due to start in 2016

11. Our Prevent Strategy Prevent is part of the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 - Statutory duty for higher education institutions to have ‘due regard to the need to prevent individuals from being drawn into terrorism’ – now the law, but requires a risk-based approach Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 University is low risk but not no risk Our approach – safeguarding Extra care about external speakers on campus Training/awareness raising for all senior leaders, PRCs, and ‘frontline’ staff

12. University Priorities 15/16 2015/16 Priorities 1.Increase overall entry tariff for UK/EU students 2.Increase research grants by at least 10% 3.Regain top 10 in the National Student Survey 4.UK/EU Undergraduate applications rise to 15,000 per annum

13. Your questions… All questions will receive responses on the Staff Intranet