1.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Interdisciplinary
Science Building
• TM2 Building
• Chemistry UG
Teaching
Laboratories
• Student Residences
• Students’ Union Rebuild
• Butterworth Hall
( investment in worldclass Arts Centre)
• IT Network

• 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

• 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

2.

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 postelection 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
15
10
5
£m
0
2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13
-5
-10
2009 Financial
Plan Surpluses
Surpluses with savings identified to date
Surpluses without savings
& restructuring
(exc. interest effect)

• 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:

• Can’t live in the hope that a rise in tuition fees will come along to save us

• 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

Teaching Grid The Warwick Advantage
Reinvention Centre
Warwick Footprint Warwick iTunes U
Learning Grid
Warwick Prize for Writing
Institute of Advanced Study Warwick Digital
Press
International Digital Laboratory
CAPITAL Centre
IGGY
Wolfson Research Exchange
Warwick Commissions

• 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

Partners 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