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Academic Services All-Staff Meeting 12 th January 2010 Agenda Michele Shoebridge News update Shaun Curtis International update Speed updates: Jess Gardner Research Commons Matt Newcombe VLE project Nick Johnson Supercomputing strategy
12th January 2010
Michele Shoebridge News update Shaun Curtis International update Speed updates:
Jess Gardner Research Commons Matt Newcombe VLE project Nick Johnson Supercomputing strategy
Welcoming new staff Any questions?
– £6.6% decrease in HEFCE grant – Additional cuts of £135 million
‘a reduction in the public funding per student could seriously threaten our ability to offer the high-quality experience our students deserve and expect’ Steve Smith, UUK President
– Things will be tight – we need to deliver 5% savings this year – Could be 1% savings next year
across January and February
deliver 5% savings required
– Confirmed bookings can be made directly and immediately – Improved service, allowing staff to handle complex bookings
– First semester exams taking place from 11th January – Nearly 20,000 exam places (over 250 exams)
– This years survey opens on 1st February – Academic Services is addressing any concerns raised in 2009
– Nearly 16,000 students registered online (10% increase) – Good teamwork between a number of Academic Services teams
– Business plans ready to be submitted to SWRDA on 14th January – ESI building design ready for submission to planning with interviews held to select an architect for Shared Services project last Friday – Successful designer for Exchange to be announced today – Exchange will be an extension to the current LRC and will house additional library and teaching space
– Welcoming Antonia Coppen, starting today, as Employability Officer. – Joining us from Cardiff University, Antonia will take forward the employability agenda and manage the Exeter Award in Cornwall
– Innovation Showcase provisionally arranged for 26th March to demonstrate range of new web technologies – blogs, wiki service & 3D campus on Google Earth
– Process review of academic timetable – Business Intelligence project - business planning process & University KPI’s – PG applicant portal ongoing
– 5 major strands of software development – Booking system; customer identification and tracking; virtual advisor; digital signage and queue management
– Careers and Employment service awarded Matrix accreditation
– Collection and processing of destination information for 2009 leavers underway – Two work placement coordinators appointed to work in Schools to find work experience opportunities
– Series of events to enable students access to information on a wide range of career areas
– Spent £3m across ‘Research Commons’ and St. Luke’s libraries – All service back to normal, and users very satisfied
– 20,000 more people through Main Library doors in Autumn 2009 compared to 2008 (233,000 in Autumn term 2009) – One of the only HE libraries to open on Boxing Day – Maintained full service across all 5 Exeter site libraries during snow
– Launch of Exeter's JISC-funded Digital Collections Online - making Victorian culture treasures available at the desk-top – Library twitter has been launched to keep news up to date as we enter critical Forum period
– Staff have presented papers on Student as Change Agents, Open Educational Resources project, and the Audio Feedback project to countries including The UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Italy – External promotion visits have been made to USA and China.
– JISC funded project making Exeter resources available externally (Open Exeter) on target to release 360 credits of material by April.
– 335 staff and research students attended the LTHE programme 2009-10.
International Exeter: The Student Experience The University of Exeter Learning and Teaching Conference, 5th May 2010 Workshops contributed by AS staff would be welcome. Contact Sue Burkill.
– Storage Area Network holds all University data – Cost of £800k, and will save £23k in power over 5 years. – System built and installed in weeks, with no disruption to users
– Following months of planning, this move took place on 5th January – Hundreds of IT services switched to new network – Considerable step towards new, high-speed data network
– Between September and December 2009, received 19,000 calls via the IT Help Desk – growth of over 40% on previous year – Customer satisfaction results strengthened, with over 90% of users receiving ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’ Service
– Week of events held for students, staff and community in conjunction with Emma Thompson and her son, Tindy (alumnus) – 500 students participated over 15 events – Increase in students coming forward to participate in consultation groups
– Produced Community Engagement Strategy – Strategy compiled using information from recent Community Survey, student steering groups, Resident Liaison Groups & StreetWise answer phone service
– Record breaking numbers of international students – International Student Barometer Summer results – many divisions classed as excellent – New monthly Cultural Awareness Training – Chinese New Year celebrations – Saturday 13th February
– Key ‘conversion events’ taking place across February and March – Anticipate 1,500 prospective students attending these 8 events
– A marketing campaign to promote more than 100 PhD studentships across all Schools has begun – The Marketing team has been working closely with colleagues in Schools and Research and Knowledge Transfer to implement the campaign which involves print advertising (THE, Nature, Guardian, Independent); external websites and the University website
Undergraduate Postgraduate Taught Home / EU +9% +39% International +64% +130%
A centrally supported space the research community holds in common
– A very tired ‘store’ – ‘Hidden’ Special Collections 2007 MoveCorp recommends – Remodel as high quality research space – Create new research seminar facilities – Optimise treasures through exhibition – Improve visibility of Special Collections
£2million investment 2009
Room for quiet study
suite
room
research collection growth
campus library with ‘home’ for linked Academic Services (£1 million)
research library with opportunity for expansion post INTO; ‘sister’ to learning-focused Main Library (£2 million)
student-focused Forum library space, adjacent to student centre (£5.8 million)
Infrastructure funds
Project is currently on target for completion in September
phases
Nick Johnson Advanced Systems, Infrastructure, ICSD
Research Excellence Framework (REF) Research intensive University = major supercomputing facilities Major computing facilities attracts top researchers to University of Exeter Top researchers publish high quality research The best research is cited by most of all More citations gives Exeter higher REF rankings
Today The future 2007 – Astrophysics
2009 – Other schools
2011 - Central campus provision – 10,000 cores?
University World rank Cost 1 Southampton 74th ￡3m 2 Bristol 238th ￡7m 3 Cardiff 497th ? 4 Reading ~550th ? 5 UCL ~600th ￡3.8m 6 Cambridge ~700th ￡2m 7? Exeter ~900th? ￡1m
Requirement for £3m every 3 years Funding sources:
Internal funding Partnership with another university Partnership with large science
research facility Status: VCEG considering funding sources Discussions with potential partners Testing our programs on their supercomputers. Researchers using national facilities
program in eight hours.
AP & SA
ASU
BISS
CES
LRS
EE
Moodle migration team:
ICSD
P&R
SRAM
AS DIRECTOR’S OFFICE