Annual Meeting 2002

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Annual Meeting 2002

• Sir Howard Newby
• Chief Executive
• HEFCE
• BAFTA
• 15 November 2002

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Strategic Plan 2003-08

• Government Strategy Document
• - delayed
• HEFCE strategic plan 2003-08
• - on hold
• HEFCE grant announcement 2003-04
• - unaffected

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Strategic Plan 2003-08

• Key strategic themes remain unaffected
• Core areas
• widening and increasing participation
• enhancing excellence in learning and teaching
• enhancing excellence in research
• enhancing the contribution of HE to the economy
  and society

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Strategic Plan 2003-08

• Key strategic themes remain unaffected
• Cross-cutting themes
• building on institutions strengths
• supporting leadership, governance and management
• organisational development within HEFCE to
  deliver the strategy

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New HEFCE structure

• Chief Executive

Director
Director
Director
Director
Regional
Regional
Regional
Regional
Policy
Policy
Policy
Policy
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Dr Liz BeatyDirector (Learning and Teaching)

• Learning and Teaching Policy
• Regions
• North East
• North West
• Yorkshire the Humber

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Steve EganDirector (Finance Corporate
Services)

• Audit Institutional Finance
• Analytical Services
• Organisational Development
• Leadership, Management Governance
• Finance Planning
• Regions
• South East
• South West

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John RushforthDirector (Widening Participation)

• Widening Participation Policy
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
• Regions
• East Midlands
• West Midlands
• Northern Ireland

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Rama ThirunamachandranDirector (Research and
Knowledge Transfer)

• Research Policy
• Business Community Policy
• Regional Operations
• Regions
• London
• East of England

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Key issues

• understanding the needs of our stakeholders
• having the capability and capacity to meet them

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What we are trying to achieve

• world-class HE in a global economy
• widening participation and social inclusion
• strengthening of lifelong learning
• national and local economic development
• - by working in partnership

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Myth and reality
I sense an explosion about to engulf British
Universities. There will be closures, mergers,
student riots and mass redundancies - Simon
Jenkins, The Times, 6 November 2002
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OECD 2002 Education at a glance

• UK has the highest graduation rate of countries
  surveyed (p.39)
• Quote With its very high rewards from tertiary
  education, the United Kingdom is in a group of
  its own (p.127)
• These high personal returns indicate continuing
  strong demand for HE qualifications (p. 128)

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HE sector financial forecasts

• Break-even for the current year
• number of HEIs forecasting a deficit
• 2002-03 45
• 2005-06 25
• Operating surpluses too low to support necessary
  levels of reinvestment

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Widening and increasing participation

• enabling all those who can benefit from HE to
  have the opportunity to do so
• widening participation strategic plans
• continuing funding for partnerships for
  progression
• fair access and targets

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Enhancing excellence in research

• maintaining world-class research
• sustainable research capacity
• research infrastructure
• recovery of costs and improved costing and
  pricing
• supporting research capability in strategic and
  emerging areas
• review of research assessment

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Enhancing the contribution of HE to the economy
and society

• creating a sustainable and permanent third stream
  of activity
• knowledge transfer flowing from world-class
  research
• working with business and community for local,
  regional and national benefit
• supprting skills for work including CPD and
  vocational routes

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Building on institutions strengths

• enabling institutions to focus on their
  strengths
• rewards and incentives for all core areas of
  activity
• core plus model
• fostering increased collaboration

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Challenges across the strategic areas

• globalisation
• focus on excellence and strength
• sustainability
• fully funded activity

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Annual Meeting 2002
BAFTA 15 November 2002

• Dr Liz Beaty
• HEFCE Director (Learning and Teaching)

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Learning and Teaching context

• HE in the UK internationally recognised to be
  high quality. How do we keep it there?
• The 2010 learning experience - innovation and
  diversity of mode, curricula, location etc
• Increased and widened HE participation -
  expansion and funding
• Accountability in diverse HE system and reducing
  burden - quality assurance

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Strategic Plan

• Protecting and supporting diversity of mission
• Recognising and rewarding excellence in learning
  and teaching
• Core-plus method of funding in support of world
  class provision

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Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund

• Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund 2002-2005 - 92
  million
• Institutional Learning and Teaching Strategies
  50 million
• Fund for the Development of Teaching and
  Learning 13 million
• Learning and Teaching Support Network 20
  million
• National Teaching Fellowship Scheme 3 million

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Teaching Quality Enhancement Committee

• Established to review the arrangements and
  agencies that support learning and teaching in HE
• Due to report in December 2002
• TQEC will map out the QE agenda over the next
  decade
• Interim report suggests Quality Enhancement (QE)
  is primarily the responsibility of HEIs
• QE agencies will consider the best way to reduce
  duplication and overlap

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Quality assurance

• Quality rising in HE (QAA)
• New QA method on track for Spring 2003 builds on
  HE systems to reduce burden

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Diversity and Innovation in HE supply

• Workplace learning - Foundation degrees
• HE in FE - Role of colleges in achieving 50
  target
• eLearning - eUniversity, JISC

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Annual Meeting 2002

• Steve Egan
• HEFCE
• BAFTA
• 15 November 2002

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FOCUS
Leadership
EXCELLENCE

• CONFIDENCE

Governance
Management
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HEFCE role
Funding
Partnership
Good practice
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Activities

• Rewarding developing staff
• Funding good management practice
• Thematic investments
• Benchmarking
• Leadership foundation
• Supporting governance

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Costing Pricing
Equality Challenge Unit

• Sector wide procurement

Transparency Review
Estates
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• INDIVIDUAL

Leadership Foundation
INSTITUTION
GROUP
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Supporting good governance

• Provide tools/good practice
• Supporting training
• Communication
• Audit

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• Discussion

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