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Celebrating Excellence
All Staff Meeting – Tuesday 21 June 2016
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Atherton and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Steve Bradley
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
Top ten universities
Guardian
Complete University Guide
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)
Best in the north west
Good University
Guide/The Guardian
2017(May 2016)
Complete University
Guide/The Independent
2017(April 2016)
Times/Sunday Times
University Guide 2016
(September 2015)
Out of 119
Out of 127
Out of 127
Lancaster University
8
9
11
9 (1)
Manchester
Liverpool
Manchester Met
Edge Hill
Chester
Liverpool Hope
31
59
60
64
65
79
25
38
57
71
94
83
28
38
77
68
87
79
28 (2)
45 (3)
65 (4)
68 (5)
82 (8)
80 (7)
Salford
Liverpool John Moores
UCLAN
Bolton
Cumbria
83
84
87
93
117
95
74
99
122
121
98
74
92
123
119
92 (9)
77 (6)
93 (10)
113 (11)
119 (12)
Average
International reputation
QS World University
THE World University
Departmental rankings:
• 15th - Linguistics
• 38th - Sociology
• 46th - Geography
Departmental rankings:
• 63rd - Arts and Humanities
• 84th - Social Sciences
Highlights and successes
Research performance
– Research Excellence Framework (REF) outcome 18th
overall, 13th for 4*, 10th for environment
– Lancaster up to 23rd 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
Research applications and awards
Total University Applications (Value)
Total University Applications
(Number)
200
150
2013-14
100
2014-15
50
2015-16
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 11 12
Number of applications
Value (millions)
250
1000
800
600
2013-14
400
2014-15
200
2015-16
0
1
2
3
4
Month number
2013-14
20
2014-15
10
2015-16
0
4
5
6
7
8
Month number
9
10 11 12
Number of awards
Value (millions)
30
3
7
8
9 10 11 12
Total University Awards (Number)
40
2
6
Month number
Total University Awards (Value)
1
5
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Month number
9 10 11 12
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
Selection of highlights (too many
to mention…!)
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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 - 100th 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
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
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
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
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
Lancaster University College –
Beijing Jiaotong University
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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
Your questions…
Responses will be uploaded to the Staff Intranet