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ResearchResearch• Prizes and Awards e.g. WMG Queen’s Anniversary Award, 3
highly prestigious ERC Advanced Investigator Awards and 2 Young Investigator Awards, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair ,2 BBSRC New Investigator Awards, MRC Career Development Award, etc.
• Warwick Commission 2 – reported in December ‘09 and gained significant international media coverage
• Establishing Life Sciences at Warwick – a strategic priority to create world-class life sciences
• Highly Cited - from 3 to 12 highly cited scholars• Postgraduate Researchers – further growth in applicants
ResearchResearch• WMG Low Carbon Project (worth over £17M)• Formal launch of Warwick/Birmingham Joint
Energy Efficiency Research Programme (worth £10.5M)
• Awarded Major EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Mathematics and Statistics (worth over £4M)
• WMS – announced as a leading partner in a West Midlands Health Innovation and Education Cluster
• Midlands Physics Alliance – second stage funding agreed
• IAS - Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
Teaching & Student SupportTeaching & Student Support• League Table Positions:
– THES-QS World University Ranking – up 11 places from last year
– Shanghai Jiao Tong Ranking of World Universities – up 20 places from last year
• 2 National Teaching Fellows awarded (from over 200 nominations nationally)• Warwick Global Advantage Award launched• IN-Place Graduate Internships Programme launched in partnership with Birmingham• International Student Barometer outperform most of the Russell Group on most indicators
More SuccessesMore Successes• Warwick Administrative Management
Programme : 32 current participants
• Warwick Leadership Programme: 48 participants
• Warwick Conferences – 3 top industry awards and individual accolades such as gold award at TUCO Chefs’ and Food Service Skills Challenge
Key AppointmentsKey Appointments• Professor Mark Smith appointed as
Deputy Vice-Chancellor• Professor Mark Taylor appointed as
Dean of WBS• Professor Peter Winstanley to take up
the role of Dean at Warwick Medical School
(from May)• 3 PVC vacancies currently advertised
to all eligible professors
Investment in FacilitiesInvestment in Facilities• Interdisciplinary Science Building• TM2 Building• Chemistry UG Teaching Laboratories • Student Residences
• Students’ Union Rebuild• Butterworth Hall (investment in world- class Arts Centre)• IT Network
International VisibilityInternational Visibility• Core Partnerships – deepening relationships with
Monash, Boston, Vanderbilt and NTU• International Gateway for Gifted Youth – IGGY U
2010 at Warwick and in Botswana, Warwick Junior Commission 2 launched
• Warwick in Africa – recognised by the Clinton Global Initiative
• Warwick Prize for Writing – 2011 prize launched with Michael Rosen to chair the judging panel
• Warwick to be represented at G8 University Summit in Vancouver – Warwick one of only 2 UK universities invited
Income GenerationIncome Generation• Research income up 18% in 08/09 and
forecast to exceed £80M for the first time in 09/10
• Development (philanthropic) income topped £4M for the first time last year and continues to be strong e.g. supported by launch of Warwick’s ‘Case for Support’
• Significant contribution of commercial
income streams – 18.2% of total turnover
We face some challenges, most particularly, the financial situation.• The economies you made last year mean that we have
been well-placed to cope with the 5% cut from the funding council we have had so far this year – Exactly on plan
• But there is clearly more to come, starting with the post-election budget. Most commentators expect there will be a cumulative cut of somewhere between 18% and 25% in public spending in the ‘unprotected’ sectors by 2014/15 – on some forecasts could be 33%
Higher Education is unprotected• This will affect our funding council grant (23%) but also
some other sources of income (e.g. Research Councils, Regional Development Agency funding, NHS funds)
Less funding and increased competition• Also pressure on commercial income streams
Effect on surpluses of not achieving savings
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2009 Financial Plan Surpluses
Surpluses with savings identified to date
Surpluses without savings & restructuring (exc. interest effect)
Wider ChallengesWider Challenges• Aggressive recruitment of international students
(and increasingly UK students) by our international competitors
• Intense scrutiny of the value of HE and the quality of the student experience e.g. teaching and learning resources, student support, academic standards, graduate recruitment
• Increasing ‘audit culture’ and burden of regulation• Less autonomy for British universities
We can’t ignore this and hope it will all go away. It won’t. We have to do things now, in the Warwick tradition of getting on with it
We need to immunize ourselves against this uncertain future
That means three things:
FirstFirst
Batten down the financial hatches so that we have room to continue to manoeuvre
• Can’t live in the hope that a rise in tuition fees will come along to save us
SecondSecond
Invest to earn more income
• New Interdisciplinary Science Building • Major research applications e.g. Warwick Innovation
and Knowledge Centre, Institute for Product Service Innovation, ESRC DTC application
• New student residences (more volume on campus)
• New Commercial Ventures e.g. franchising of Jobs.ac.uk
We need a continuous record We need a continuous record of innovation into the futureof innovation into the future
Institute of Advanced Study
IGGY
Learning GridWarwick Prize for Writing
Wolfson Research Exchange
Warwick Digital Press
Warwick Footprint Warwick iTunes U
International Digital Laboratory
Teaching Grid The Warwick AdvantageReinvention Centre
CAPITAL Centre
Warwick Commissions
Examples of innovations for Examples of innovations for the futurethe future
• Developing a Warwick Lifetime Academy (lifelong access to leading knowledge and research for alumni and stakeholders)
• Establishing an Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL)
• Extension of Warwick in Africa• Establishing IGGY as the world centre for
gifted and talented education
Remember: Remember: people believe in people believe in Warwick’s futureWarwick’s futurePartners e.g. Santander (7 additional studentships), GE
Healthcare (joint grants, PhD scholarships, events), Cisco (equipment and expertise), Deloitte (sponsors of the Global Advantage Award), Wolfson (Research
Exchange, WMS Microscopy)
Communities e.g. Butterworth Hall redevelopment possible though fundraising campaign with staff, alumni and other supporters
Individuals e.g. £1M commitment to support research from Lord Bhattacharyya, WMG, Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies