The Council

COUN06-A1

NOTICE OF MEETING

The 314th meeting of the University Council will be held on Friday 31 March 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 30 March.

2. Minutes

To confirm the Minutes of the Meeting of the Council held on 20 December 2005 (COUN05-M7 previously circulated).

3. Matters arising from the Minutes

SECTION A: Items for Discussion

4. Strategic Development of the University

COUN06-P1

To receive an update on work of the Strategic Review Group and to note the date of the Senate/Council Strategic Planning Day (19 June 2006).

5. Finance Matters

5.1 Financial Report 2005/06

COUN06-P2

To receive an update on the University's financial position for 2005/06

5.2 HEFCE Recurrent Grant for 2006/07

COUN06-P3

To receive a report on the HEFCE recurrent grant for the academic year 2006/07.

5.3 HEFCE Financial Health Indicators

COUN06-P4

To note the summary statistics from the 2005 HEFCE Financial Forecasts and to receive a report from the Bursar.

5.4 Additional Fee Income

To consider priorities for expenditure of additional fee income.

6. Capital Programme

6.1 Progress Report

COUN06-P5

To receive a progress report.

6.2 Richard Morris Extension

COUN06-P6

To receive a progress report.

6.3 Residential Halls Development

COUN06-P7

To receive a progress report.

6.4 Sports Park

COUN06-P8

To receive a progress report.

6.5 Land Acquisition

COUN06-P9

To receive a progress report.

6.6 Finance System

COUN06-P10

To receive a progress report.

7. Council Review of Effectiveness

7.1 Recommendations

COUN06-P11 (to follow)

To consider a prioritised list of recommendations from the Executive Management Group.

7.2 Council: Added Value

COUN06-P12

To consider comments from a lay member.

8. Nominating Committee

8.1 Membership

To note that Professor Peter Smith had been appointed 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.

8.2 Recommendations to Court

To note that, on the recommendation of the Chair of Council, Court has approved that Roger Boissier and Professor Richard Parry-Jones to re-appointed as Pro-Chancellors until February 2007 and February 2009 retrospectively and that Alan A Woods be reappointed as Treasurer until February 2009.

8.3 Procedure for the Appointment of DVC, PVCs and Deans

COUN06-P13

To consider the recommendations of the Nominations Committee regarding revision of the procedures for the appointment of DVC, PVCs and Deans.

9. Delegated Authority

9.1 Approval of Appointments

To formally delegate authority to the Vice-Chancellor to approve, on the recommendation of Senate, the appointment of Associate Deans, Heads of Departments, Directors of Research Schools and the Director of the Graduate School.

9.2 Senior Staff Salary Review

COUN06-P14 (to follow)

To consider recommendations for changes to the procedures for salary review for professorial and equivalent staff and to the remit of the Remunerations Committee.

10. Audit Committee

COUN06-P15

To consider a report of the meeting of the Audit Committee held on 24 February 2006 and to approve revised Constitution and Terms of Reference (minute 06/3 and Annex A refers).

11. Vice-Chancellor's Business

To receive a report from the Vice-Chancellor.

12. Matters for Reports

*12.1 Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)

The Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) will not be present.

(i) Research Grants and Contracts

COUN06-P16

(ii) Update on RAE 2008

COUN06-P17

12.2 Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching)

(i) Recruitment for 2006/07 entry

COUN06-P18

(ii) British University in Egypt

*12.3 Director of Business Partnerships, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer

COUN06-P19

12.4 Director of External Relations

COUN06-P20

SECTION B - Items for Approval

*13. University Ordinances

*13.1 Confirmation of Amendments

Further to Minute 05/128 and paper COUN05-P121, to confirm:

i. amendments to Ordinance III: Substantive Awards and Honorary Degrees

ii. amendments to Ordinance IV: Titles of Degrees and Conditions of Award, with effect from 2 October 2006

iii. amendments to Ordinance XVII: Conduct and Discipline of Students, with immediate effect

*13.2 New Amendments

COUN06-P21

On the recommendation of Senate, to approve amendments to Ordinance XVII, Conduct and Discipline of Students.

*14. Senate

COUN06-P22

To receive reports from the meeting of Senate held on 25 January and 1 March 2006 and approve the following recommendations:

.1 Information Strategy (minute 06/22 and Annex A refers)

.2 Programme Proposals (minute 06/28 refers)

.3 Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma Awards on MRes Progammes (minute 06/29 refers)

.4 Establishment of New Prizes, Amendments to Existing Prizes and Discontinuation of Prizes (minute 06/31 and Annex B refers)

*15. Resources and Planning Committee

COUN06-P23 (to follow)

To receive the reports from the meeting of Resources and Planning Committee held on 10 March 2006 and approve recommendations as follows:

i. To adopt the Estates Strategy [full document approved by Resources and Planning, Council receives Executive Summary only] (minute 06/7 and Annex A refer)

ii. Framework for achieving long-term sustainability (minute 06/11 and Annex B refer)

SECTION C - Items for Information

*16. Reports of Committees

To receive reports from the following Committees:

i) Health, Safety and Environmental Committee – 22 February 2006 [COUN06-P24]

ii) Performance Monitoring Group – 2 March 2006 [COUN06-P25]

17. Any Other Business

18. Date of Next Meeting

Tuesday 18 July 2006: 2.30pm start