The Council

COUN05-A1

NOTICE OF MEETING

The 314th meeting of the University Council will be held on Friday 1 April at 10.15 a.m. in the Council Chamber, Administration Building 2.

Mr J M Town, Registrar

AGENDA

1. Business of the Agenda

Members are reminded that a starred item is approved at this stage unless notice is given of intention to speak to it. Any member wishing to speak to a starred item, to raise an item under any other business or to challenge the unconfirmed minutes is asked to give notice to the Registrar by mid-day on Thursday 31 March.

2. Minutes

To confirm the Minutes of the 312th Meeting of the Council held on 21 December 2004 (COUN04-M9 previously circulated).

3. Matters arising from the Minutes

SECTION A: Items for Discussion

4. Strategic Development of the University

COUN05-P1

To receive an update on the development of the Estates Strategy and the work of the Strategic Review Group.

5. Financial Report 2004/05

COUN05-P2

To receive an update on the University's financial position for 2004/05.

6. HEFCE Recurrent Grant for 2005/06

COUN05-P3

To receive a report on the HEFCE recurrent grant for the academic year 2005/06.

7. HEFCE Financial Health Indicators

COUN05-P4

To note the summary statistics from the 2004 HEFCE Financial Forecasts and to receive a report from the Bursar.

8. Capital Programme

8.1 Progress Report

COUN05-P5

To receive a progress report.

8.2 New Residential Accommodation

COUN05-P6

To receive a report from the Halls Life Expectancy Working Group and, on the recommendation of Resources and Planning Committee, to approve recommendations for the development of new residential accommodation.

9. CUC Governance Code and Practice

COUN05-P7

To receive a report and preliminary recommendations from the Registrar.

10. Nominating Committee

To appoint Professor Peter Golding as the elected staff member of Council and Norma Honey as the lay member of Council to the Nominating Committee for the period 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006.

11. Audit Committee

COUN05-P8

To consider a report of the meeting of the Audit Committee held on 10 February 2005.

12. Treasurer's Committee

COUN05-P9

To receive a report of the meeting of the Treasurer's Committee held on 15 March 2005.

13. Vice-Chancellor's Business

To receive a report from the Vice-Chancellor.

14. Matters for Reports

14.1 Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)

(i) Research Grants and Contracts

COUN05-P10

(ii) Update on RAE 2008

(iii) HEFCE Capital Funding for Research and Infrastructure (“SRIF3”)

14.2 Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching)

(i) Recruitment for 2005/06 entry

COUN05-P11 (to be tabled)

(ii) Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

*14.3 Director of Business Partnerships, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer

COUN05-P12

Secretary’s Note: Professor McCaffer will not be present at the meeting

14.4 Director of External Relations

COUN05-P13

SECTION B - Items for Approval

*15. Barclays Bank PLC – Guarantee Facility

COUN05-P14

To approve the Guarantee Facility given by Barclays Bank PLC.

*16. Dealing Mandate with Fortis Bank

COUN05-P15

To approve the Dealing Mandate with Fortis Bank.

*17. Open College Network South East Midlands Limited (OCNSEM)

COUN05-P16

To approve the disposal of OCNSEM and its accumulated assets to NEMCON on terms agreed by the Bursar.

*18. Loughborough Students’ Union (LSU)

*18.1 LSU Constitution

To note that, in accordance with Ordinance XIX, the Registrar will be reviewing the LSU Constitution and bringing forward recommendations to the meeting in July.

*18.2 LSU Annual Accounts

COUN05-P17

To receive the LSU Annual Accounts for the year ending 31 July 2004

*19. Committee Membership

COUN05-P18

To ratify appointments to vacancies on Council Committees and Joint Committees with Senate.

*20. Resources and Planning Committee

COUN05-P19

To receive the reports from the meetings of Resources and Planning Committee held on 28 January and 11 March 2005 and approve the recommendations for tuition fees as follows:

· UK/EU undergraduate - £1,175.00

· UK/EU taught postgraduate and research programmes - £3085.00 (variations for some departments are being developed)

*21. Senate

COUN05-P20

To receive the report from the meeting of Senate held on 2 March 2005 and approve the following recommendations:

.1 Programme Proposals (minute 05/12 refers)

.2 Policy and Guidelines on the use of Illicit Drugs (minute 05/13 and Annex A refers)

.3 Establishment of New Prizes, Amendments to Existing Prizes and Discontinuation of Prizes (minute 05/14 and Annex B refers)

*22. Common Seal

COUN05-P21

To ratify the action of the Registrar in affixing the University Seal to the documents listed.

SECTION C - Items for Information

*23. University Fairtrade Policy

COUN05-P22

To note that the Chair of Council has taken Chair’s Action in approving the Fairtrade Policy and that the University is now fully signed up to the initiative.

*24. Reports of Committees

To receive reports from the following Committees:

i) Performance Monitoring Group – 3 March 2005 [COUN05-P23]

25. Any Other Business

26. Date of Next Meeting

Tuesday 19 July (pm)

Author - M T Whyte

Date – March 2005