university of bradford meeting of court april 2005 annual report 2003-2004 august 2003 - july 2004

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Meeting of Court April 2005

Annual Report2003-2004

August 2003 - July 2004



Major Activity

• Developed Corporate and Financial Strategies



Major Appointments

• New Senior Management Team – DeputyVice-Chancellor, 3 new PVCs, Directors of Human Resources and Estates

Professor Phil Coates PVC Research andKnowledge Transfer

Professor Rae EarnshawPVC e-Strategy

Professor Geoff LayerPVC for Learning

and Teaching

Professor Jeff Lucas Deputy Vice-Chancellor



Major Recognitions

• Working Class Heroes – ranked 3rd in the UK in terms of Widening Participation

• No 1 in North of England for Graduate Employment and 7th in the UK



Key Developmentsand Achievements

• Full Institutional Audit

• Planned or launched new courses– Psychology, Law, Media Studies, ICT

• Top-up Fees/Bursaries



Key Developmentsand Achievements (2)• School of Management

– 40th birthday– World League Tables - top 75

part-time Executive MBAprogrammes, top 100 full-time MBAs

– Top 10 Business Schoolsin the UK - Chancellor’s pre-budget report



• SSIS - Peace Studies– Rotary International Peacemakers Conference

– South Asia Strategic Stability Unit launch, 4 Ambassadors present

– £650,000 Government contract to provide short courses to officers of the BritishArmed Forces

Key Developmentsand Achievements (3)



• School of Life Sciences– Launch of IPI

– Optometry awarded £120,000 to research recognition of human colours

– Institute of Pigmentary Disorders – treatment for Vitiligo sufferers




• EDT – Centre of Expertise in Manufacturing, DTI

• Informatics Innovation Unit opened• Archaeological Sciences – ancient

bones found in Yorkshire




• SLED – Foundation Degrees launched• Health Studies – outstanding Teaching

Quality successes





• Knowledge Transfer– HEIF 2 Funding – Research and Knowledge

Transfer success. One of top 10 universities

– Yorkshire Forward Centres of Industrial Collaboration

– Customer First recognition



• Launch of Environmental Policy• 21st Century Estates Plan• Second Student and Staff Satisfaction

Surveys




Finances

• Turnover about £84 million – considerable growth

• Significant surplus – again, 3%

• Only 38% of our income from HEFCE

• Research Grants increased byalmost 7%



Our Honorary Graduates• Dr Blake Morrison• Professor Sir Alan Wilson• Alan Tuckitt OBE• Mr Peter Layton• Sir Paul Nurse• Mr Bill Huntley• Clare Short MP• Mr M G Wilson• Sir Michael Bichard• Mrs Joyce Kearney• Professor Charles Sandbank



Building for the Future

• Delivery of the Corporate Strategy – Balanced Scorecard

• Partnerships with City and District of Bradford

• Campus Improvements• Branding



Building for the Future (2)

• Improve and expand our course portfolios, UG and PG

• Capitalise on student applications improvement – 33% home UG,17% overseas UG, 28% home PGT,9% overseas PGT

• Maintain our research position



Building for the Future (3)

• Capitalise on improving League Table position– Guardian, 19th April 2005 number 31 from 54

(2004) and from 69 (2003)– Excellent discipline strengths, 15 in top 20

including Biosciences 3rd after Oxbridge universities

• Two more HEIST Awards – Postgraduate Prospectus 2005 (Gold), Creative Press Advert Campaign



Annual Reports online

www.bradford.ac.uk/annualreports

Thank you. Any questions?

university of bradford meeting of court april 2005 annual report 2003-2004 august 2003 - july 2004

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