Dr Frank Burdett
Pro Vice Chancellor
Research & Business Development
Lee Jones
Acting Director
Office Education Partnerships & Lifelong Learning
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The University as a Business
• 2008/09 Turnover: £76 million
• 2005 Turnover: £52 million
• Staff numbers: 1,200 (average fte)
• Capital investment 2004-09: £35 million
• Projected capital investment 2009-14: £60 million
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The University of Northampton 2008/09
Total number of students = 11488 of which:
7863
3625
9599
1489
7226
4262
1037
(68%)
(32%)
(84%)
(13%)
(63%)
(37%)
(10%) are full time are part time are Undergraduate are Postgraduate are female are male are from the EU/Overseas
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Research and Knowledge Transfer
• Over 500 academic and technical staff
• Expertise Directory lists over 700 subject areas
• On-line at www.northampton.ac.uk
• From “Actor Training” to “Wastes Management”
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Approved Research Centres
• Materials Science
• Urban Affairs
• Special Needs
• China and Transitional
Economies
• Practice-led Arts
• Enterprise
• Wastes Management
• Health and Wellbeing
• Children and Youth
• Contemporary Literature
Research income grown from £800K to £2.4m in 3 years
Consultancy grown to £ 3.8m
RAE results: 5 disciplines “Internationally excellent”
4 disciplines “world leading”
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Working in South Northamptonshire
• Engineering Partnership
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, Towcester
• PhDs
Woodlands around Towcester
Purston Manor Estate
• Environmental
Honda Racing –training
Arnold Thomson Solicitors – audit and training
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Working with Companies
• Supported 375 (19) new business start ups
• employing 542 people
• advice for 554 (26) would-be entrepreneurs
• mentors for 181 (8) new businesses
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Press Coverage
• Press releases sent to local media including South
Northants area on subjects including:

Radon gas testing

Further study can beat lack of jobs

Damon Hill receiving honorary award

Four figure increase puts University past 11,000 students

Politics students undertaking internship at House of
Commons

University scores well for satisfied students
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Current Major Projects
• iHub
• UN/ WNDC /
DDC /NCC /emda
• £10m
• Sustainable construction
• 55 incubator units
• Events/exhibitions
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Technology Realm
• (NEL / emda / ERDF)
• £15m development
• Bringing business on campus
• 3D immersive visualisation facilities
• British Institute NDT
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Portfolio
Innovation
Centre
• WNDC/ NEL/ UN
• £5 million
• 45 companies
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University Centre Silverstone
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University Centre Silverstone
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Specialisms
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HE Participation analysis:
Significant deficit
3,327 to match England average
3,285 more places by
2021 for MKSM further growth to reach
Leitch review
= c. 7,000 places
140%
Total Participation per 1000 Working Age
Population, 2006/07 (Index: UK=100%)
120%
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
85%
117%
101% 99%
0%
Northamptonshire Buckinghamshire Milton Keynes Core Area
Source: HESA 2006/07 Student Record (© Copyright HESA); ONS; adapted by DTZ
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Relative
Participation by
Level
Post-graduate
& undergraduate
Source: HESA 2006/07 Student Record (© Copyright HESA); ONS; adapted by DTZ
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The Academic Structure
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Northampton Business School
Work with Chenderit School:
• 5 students took an enterprise module
• Support of 6 th Form Enterprise Week June 2008
• Planning towards activity for June 2009
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School of The Arts
Development of FdA in Media Performance
• Drawing on staff expertise at Milton Keynes College
• Progression route to BA
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MKNAP Group
• MKNAP formed in Milton Keynes in November 2006
• Exchange ideas and practices, discuss challenges and activities
• Psychology revision days and NAPPER
• Stantonbury Theatre used for presentations by internationally recognised psychologists
• Introduction to Parapsychology sessions
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Pyjama Learning
• E-Learning for Learners
• 8 week trial of Wimba
Classroom for Adult and
Community Learning
• Investigating technology to enable virtual classrooms
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Community Volunteers
• Connections to Volunteering Centre in Towcester
• Plans to extend work with partners in south of county
• Range of activities include:
• Charities & Fundraising
• Criminology, Law & Psychology
• Health & Social Welfare
• Media, Arts & Performance
• On-Campus Opportunities
• Children & Young People
• Environmental and Conservation
• Marketing, Admin’ & ICT
• One-Off Events
• Sports & Activities
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Schools and College Liaison
Visits to Schools
• Talks to years 12 and 13
• Student activities
• Parent talks
•
HE Days
• Careers Events
On-campus Activities
• ‘Be’ Events
• Business Day
•
Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire Higher Education Conference
Other Projects and Activities
• 14-19 Engineering Day
•
Pathfinder Project
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Proportion of Northamptonshire Population Attending HE by Local Authority
District/Borough (LAD)
Students Mid Yr % of LAD Students Mid Yr % of LAD Students Mid Yr % of LAD Students Mid Yr % of LAD
03/04 Est.
2004 attending
HE
04/05 Est.
2005 attending
HE
05/06 Est.
2006 attending
HE
06/07 Est.
2007 attending
HE
34UB Corby
34UC Daventry 1,173
34UD East
Northamptonshire 1,126
34UE Kettering
526
1,169
53,197 1.00%
75,409
80,693 1.40% 1,000
85,272
1.60%
1.40%
520
1,043
1,106
53,549
75,914
81,548
85,973
1.00%
1.40%
1.20%
1.30%
593
1,199
1,081
1,197
54,771
78,188
83,954
87,858
1.10%
1.50%
1.30%
1.40%
604
1,131
997
1,202
55,000
79,000
85,000
90,000
1.10%
1.40%
1.20%
1.30%
34UF Northampton 2,797 194,789 1.40% 2,749 194,973 1.40% 2,939 200,084 1.50% 2,903 203,000 1.40%
34UG South
Northamptonshire
1,217 84,111 1.40% 1,215 86,006 1.40% 1,318 88,764 1.50% 1,283 90,000 1.40%
34UH
Wellingborough
Unknown/Borders
930
70
73,260 1.30% 857
27
73,861 1.20% 965
24
75,483 1.30% 916
13
76,000 1.20%
Northamptonshire 8,937 646,731 1.40% 8,490 651,824 1.30% 9,292 669,102 1.40% 9,036 678,300 1.30%
TOTAL 9,008 8,517 9,316 9,049
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HEI Choices of South Northamptonshire HE Students
2003/04 – 2006/07
Institution
The University of Northampton
The Open University
Oxford Brookes University
De Montfort University
The University of Oxford
The Nottingham Trent University
The University of Leicester
The University of Birmingham
Coventry University
University of Bedfordshire
Loughborough University
The University of Warwick
The University of Nottingham
Sheffield Hallam University
The University of Sheffield
Bournemouth University
Birmingham City University
University of the Arts, London
14
2
The University of Leeds 16
University of the West of England, Bristol 7
University of Gloucestershire 14
The University of East Anglia
The University of Southampton
The University of Keele
The University of Reading
Institutions with less than 40 students
8
5
15
6
380
17
13
13
16
12
30
15
22
27
23
235
143
89
39
31
25
TOTALS 1,217
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
2%
1%
2%
2%
2%
19%
12%
7%
3%
3%
2%
1%
0%
1%
1%
1%
1%
0%
1%
0%
31%
100% 1,215
27
19
21
15
10
14
24
25
23
20
215
134
67
45
37
29
10
12
9
10
402
10
14
11
4
8
2%
2%
2%
1%
1%
1%
2%
2%
2%
2%
18%
11%
6%
4%
3%
2%
1%
1%
1%
0%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
33%
100% 1,318
19
12
10
17
21
24
21
18
19
16
231
159
95
61
31
23
10
16
7
12
413
17
16
15
17
18
1%
1%
1%
1%
2%
2%
2%
1%
1%
1%
18%
12%
7%
5%
2%
2%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
31%
100% 1,283
13
25
16
12
15
30
30
24
17
21
203
206
90
21
19
21
16
11
11
13
406
13
17
7
20
6
1%
2%
1%
1%
1%
2%
2%
2%
1%
2%
16%
16%
7%
2%
1%
2%
1%
1%
1%
2%
0%
1%
1%
1%
1%
32%
100% 5,033
76
69
60
60
58
98
90
89
86
80
884
642
341
166
118
98
54
49
49
48
46
44
44
42
41
1,601
2%
1%
1%
1%
1%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
18%
13%
7%
3%
2%
2%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
1%
32%
100%
-14%
44%
1%
-46%
-39%
-16%
0%
100%
9%
-37%
-9%
-24%
92%
23%
-25%
25%
-7%
750%
-56%
186%
-57%
100%
120%
-27%
117%
7%
5%
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Top 10 Supplying Wards to Oxford Brookes University
7 of the top 10 supplying wards to Oxford Brookes between 03/04 and 06/07 (any mode/level) were based within South Northamptonshire local authority district.
Institution District/Borough Ward 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 All
Oxford Brookes University
1 South Northamptonshire 34UGHZ Brackley West
2 South Northamptonshire 34UGHX Brackley East
10
11
3 South Northamptonshire 34UGJM Middleton Cheney 10
4 South Northamptonshire 34UGJC Danvers and Wardoun 10
5 South Northamptonshire 34UGHY Brackley South 5
6 Daventry
7 Northampton
8 Northampton
34UCHC Woodford
34UFGD East Hunsbury
34UFGX Weston
9 South Northamptonshire 34UGHU Blakesley and Cote
10 South Northamptonshire 34UGJR Steane
7
3
4
4
3
10
5
8
3
5
7
4
4
4
7
15
17
6
8
6
5
8
4
2
5
2
2
5
7
2
7
8
7
12 47
7 40
31
29
23
21
17
17
17
17
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Mode/Level of Study by Local Authority District/Borough
% values are percentage of all students in study (35,890)
Full-time Part-time
Local Authority District First Degree FE Other UG PG First Degree FE Other UG PG
Other Totals
Corby
Corby %
Daventry
Daventry %
East Northamptonshire
East Northamptonshire %
931
3%
1916
5%
1793
5%
14
0%
21
0%
38
0%
209
1%
217
1%
233
1%
92
0%
314
1%
242
1%
188
1%
285
1%
294
1%
34
0%
84
0%
82
0%
482
1%
164
0%
129
0%
2,243
6%
1,033 459 217 4,546
3% 1% 1% 13%
972
3%
382
1%
168
0%
4,204
12%
Kettering
Kettering %
Northampton
Northampton %
South Northamptonshire
South Northamptonshire %
Wellingborough
Wellingborough %
Unknown/Borders
Unknown/Borders %
TOTALS
TOTALS %
1770
5%
4399
12%
2,093
6%
1,453
4%
32
0%
14,387
40%
55
0%
16
0%
37
0%
8
0%
0
0%
189
1%
348
1%
869
2%
247
1%
284
1%
12
0%
2,419 2,218
7%
293
1%
713
2%
342
1%
212
1%
10
0%
6%
368
1%
908
3%
326
1%
301
1%
10
0%
2,680
7%
62
0%
98
0%
57
0%
37
0%
1
0%
455
1%
1,102
3%
8%
1,163
3%
911
3%
52
0%
470
1%
2,854 1,129
3%
494
1%
321
1%
16
0%
206
1%
274
1%
141
0%
1
0%
4,674
13%
402 11,388
1% 32%
5,033
14%
3,668
10%
134
0%
8,569 3,435 1,538 35,890
24% 10% 4% 100%
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Northamptonshire Part Time Post Graduate Market
11UB Aylesbury Vale
31UD Harborough
34UB Corby
34UC Daventry
34UD East Northamptonshire
34UE Kettering
34UF Northampton
34UG South Northamptonshire
34UH Wellingborough
Unknown
TOTAL
2003
/04
2003
/04 %
0
1
0.0%
0.1%
46 5.2%
121 13.7%
89 10.1%
135 15.3%
275 31.1%
117 13.2%
93 10.5%
7 0.8%
884 100%
2004
/05
2004/
05 %
0
0
0.0%
0.0%
39 5.0%
86 11.0%
96 12.2%
105 13.4%
285 36.3%
105 13.4%
63 8.0%
6 0.8%
785 100%
2005
/06
2005/
06 %
0
0
0.0%
0.0%
44 5.1%
110 12.6%
97 11.1%
105 12.1%
292 33.6%
137 15.7%
84 9.7%
1 0.1%
870 100%
2006
/07
2006/
07 %
0
0
0.0%
0.0%
35 3.9%
142 15.8%
100 11.2%
125 14.0%
277 30.9%
135 15.1%
81 9.0%
1 0.1%
896 100%
All
Years
164
459
382
470
1129
0
1
494
321
15
3435
% of all
PT PG students
(3435)
0.0%
0.0%
4.8%
13.4%
11.1%
13.7%
32.9%
14.4%
9.3%
0.4%
100%
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Aimhigher Northamptonshire Aims to:
• Raise aspirations and motivation among young people from underrepresented groups to enter HE
• Raise attainment of potential students from under-represented groups so that they gain the academic or vocational qualifications that will enable them to enter HE
• Strengthen progression routes into HE through vocational courses
• Offer information, advice and guidance to potential students, their teachers and families
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Year
7
Year
8
Year
9
Year
10
Year
11
Year 12
F.E 1
Year 13
F.E 2
WBL
Passport day
Leadership award
H.E quiz
Launch event
M.Y.P
HEI taster
Family Day
Vocational Pathways/ progression routes
Motivational theatre
M.O.U
Get on the
Right Track
Revision workshop
Motivational
Theatre
-ZIP
Summer schools
-B.B.B
-Aspire
Summer schools
-Aspire
Behind the
Scenes
Parent’s evening/
GCSE options
S.A mentoring
Feed the
Brain
M.O.U
Results day support
Careers IAG
Careers IAG
Taster Day
Parents workshop
Aimhigher
Roadshow
Transition workshop
Mentoring
Master class
Choice of
HEI
P.Y.C.R
Transition workshops
-UCAS
-Personal
Statement
-Interviews
-C.V
Induction days
Results day support
Revision workshop
Feed the
Brain
Specific F.E work
Transition workshops
-UCAS
-Personal
Statement
- Interviews
UCAS application
-Finance
-Budgeting
-PYCR
Choice of
H.E.I
Awareness raising motivational work
-HEI visit or study at next level
-Study Skills
-Budgeting support
-Benefits of H.E
Careers/
IAG
Specific F.E
work
Support workshops:
-Personal Statements
-UCAS application
-Finance
Interview skills
-C.V
-Apprenticeships
-Pathways
I.A.G
Interviews
Aimhigher
Northamptonshire

Volume of Activities – South Northants
• 486 students will benefit from a number of awareness raising activities both in HEIs and in school.
• 812 students will be involved in a number of activities that included motivational theatre, revision workshops and techniques
• Over 100 students attended a range of progression activities e.g.
Moving on Up 2009
• Over 200 parents have attended presentations at information evenings
• 150 students from 5 schools will be involved in information/support workshops relating to applications to HE
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Partnerships:
• All county secondary schools
•
Three FE Colleges
• NCC 14/19 Area Mangers
•
The University of Northampton
• Northamptonshire Learning and Skills Council (LSC)
• Northamptonshire County Council Children and Young Peoples Service (CYPS) and
School Improvement service (SIPS)
•
Connexions Northamptonshire
• Northamptonshire Training and Development Partnership (NTDP)
•
North Northamptonshire Development Corporation (NNDC)
• Education Business Link Organisation (EBLO)
•
The University of the First Age (UFA)
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