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Annual Report and Accounts 2012–13 2012–13 Annual Report and Accounts and Report Annual Imperial College London Annual Report and Accounts | 2012–13 OUR MISSION Imperial College embodies and delivers world class scholarship, education and research in science, engineering, medicine and business, with particular regard to their application in industry, commerce and healthcare. We foster multidisciplinary working internally and collaborate widely externally. On the cover: Stephen Ramsey, scientific glassblowing and design, Department of Chemistry. Here, Stephen is making bespoke prototype glass flasks for chemists working in the Department. CONTENTS 2 Imperial College London at a glance 4 President & Rector’s foreword 5 Management Board 6 Five-year summary of key statistics 7 Financial review 12 News highlights of 2012–13 1 30 Public benefit statement 32 Corporate governance 34 Responsibilities of the Council 35 Council and Council committees 38 Independent auditors’ report 39 Consolidated income and expenditure account 40 Consolidated and College balance sheets 42 Consolidated cash flow statement 43 Statement of consolidated total recognised gains and losses 44 Statement of principal accounting policies 46 Notes to the accounts Note: The College’s governance and leadership model changed during 2012–13. For the purposes of consistency, individuals will be referred to using their new titles throughout this document. 2 Imperial at a glance 8th 7.4% Imperial’s league table position Amount by which the College’s in the world in the Times Higher income increased during Education World University 2012–13 Rankings 2012–13 3 £429m 18% Imperial’s 2012–13 income from Amount by which overall value research grants and contracts of the Endowment grew and HEFCE’s research grant during 2012–13 £124m 86% Total capital expenditure Overall satisfaction rating in the during 2012–13 National Student Survey 2012 President & Rector’s foreword There is great enthusiasm across into tangible benefits for patients. an increasingly space-strapped The Centre is based on Imperial’s College for expanding our research Hammersmith campus at the heart and translation activities into this of our Academic Health Science new Hub, and we have received Centre partnership with Imperial strong expressions of interest in College Healthcare NHS Trust. co-locating at Imperial West from businesses, universities and research organisations around the world. THE LIFETIME STUDENT EXPERIENCE Just one example serves to illustrate We are committed to offering an our new compass. Huawei, the outstanding student experience leading global ICT company, is and the results of the 2013 National in discussions with Imperial to Student Survey show that we continue I am very pleased to present this year’s Annual Report collaborate on a joint R&D hub at to make progress and improvement. and Accounts for Imperial College London. I would like Imperial West. The proposed centre The feedback from 1,634 students – to commend all the staff, students and alumni who are will focus on the emergent field four-fifths of the graduating cohort responsible for the achievements detailed within, and of data science and will co-locate – gave Imperial its highest student who make and shape Imperial’s outstanding reputation. academic researchers and business satisfaction score and response rate By the same token I am honoured to be able to thank experts from Imperial and Huawei in the survey’s history. 4 once again, on behalf of all the College’s members, respectively to work on big data The high levels of student satisfaction our friends, allies and supporters who provide us with research and applications together. perhaps explain why so many of our their wider perspectives and encouragement to fulfil our students want to attend graduation mission to excel in research, education and translation. ceremonies in the Royal Albert Hall SiNGAPORE MEDicaL SchOOL A decade on from the launch of the first Times Higher with their family and friends beside OPENS Education World Rankings, Imperial is now well- them. In May over 2,600 graduates established and recognised as amongst the world’s At the beginning of August, the and 5,000 guests attended Imperial’s greatest universities. It can rightly lay claim to being first 54 students were welcomed largest Postgraduate Graduation the best science, technology, medicine and business to Singapore’s Lee Kong Chian Ceremonies to date. focused university in a global city today. School of Medicine, Imperial’s But our commitment to our students ground-breaking collaboration with As this report chronicles we are now laying the extends well past graduation. Nanyang Technological University, foundations for the next 25 years, to ensure that in and Singapore’s first undergraduate A record 1,300 alumni registered a generation’s time that claim is not only intact but medical school for 100 years. for the alumni reception that was strengthened. Our CFO Muir Sanderson sets out on page Over the next five years they will held as part of the second annual 7 the basis for that confidence through his report on the pursue an innovative curriculum Imperial Festival in May. I was stewardship of our resources. We remain in excellent developed by Imperial’s team, and delighted to welcome an estimated financial health, and I strongly believe that what Imperial will gain experience in a wide range crowd of 10,000 including alumni is capable of achieving in future shall be limited only by of clinical settings. This inaugural and the general public to the South our imagination, vision and the ability to find the right cohort has attracted some of the Kensington campus for hands-on partners to help achieve new value from our ideas. country’s brightest talents and I am scientific demonstrations and confident they will excel as doctors imaginative presentations of serving Singapore. research by four hundred researchers IMPERIAL WEST MOVES AHEAD and students. To complement the I wrote last year that planning approval had been Festival, throughout 2012–13 the granted for our masterplan for the Imperial West site in OLYMPIC HEALThcaRE LEGacY College also launched an innovative White City, giving the go-ahead for a major regeneration series of monthly Imperial Fringe 2013 saw the launch of the project. In terms of construction, the next milestone is the events to engage the public around MRC-NIHR Phenome Centre, a development of the £150 million Research and Translation topical research themes. collaborative venture that brings Hub which is scheduled for completion in 2015. In 2013 together Imperial with King’s College We were honoured that our new we purchased an additional 11.5 acres of land, giving us London, the Waters Corporation, Alumni Visitor Centre was formally a total campus footprint of 22.75 acres, and significantly Bruker Biospin and funders, the opened in July by Mr Koh Boon Hwee increasing our capacity to deliver the College’s vision of a MRC and NIHR, and which is a legacy (Mechanical Engineering, 1972), major research and translation ecosystem. of the 2012 Olympics and its drug Chairman of Nanyang Technological This vision for Imperial West was launched at South testing and analysis labs. University. The Centre provides an Kensington in March, when over 700 guests including exclusive space at South Kensington The national facility, which will leaders from business, research and healthcare, and for visiting Imperial alumni and their work with medical researchers Imperial staff, students and alumni heard David Willetts, guests to relax, work, meet friends throughout the UK, promises to Minister of Universities and Science, and Boris Johnson, and colleagues, and catch up with the transform our understanding of Mayor of London, both give speeches endorsing latest developments at the College. diseases and to translate research the project. SENIOR STAFF Professor Sir Keith O’Nions, Professor James Stirling, President & Rector (Chairman) Provost (from 1 August 2013) MEETING SUPPORTERS WORLDWIDE physicist, with an excellent track record in university leadership, and As I said last year, nothing beats as Provost, he will take responsibility spending time with would-be partners for the delivery of the College’s core and our supporters. We have continued mission: education, research, and our programme of overseas engagement translation. Together, James and I share with visits to the United States, India, responsibility for the overall strategic Malaysia, Singapore, China, and Hong direction of the College. Professor David Gann, Professor Stephen Richardson, Kong, where I have enjoyed many Vice-President (Development Associate Provost and Innovation) (Institutional Affairs) productive conversations with alumni, James’s appointment has given way government, universities and industry. to a wider reorganisation of executive leadership and governance from 1 August Our alumni continue to provide 2013. Aside from new titles – Principals significant levels of financial support becoming Deans; Pro Rectors becoming for our endeavours. During 2012–13 Vice-Provosts; Deans becoming Consuls the College secured gifts from an – there have been a number of new all-time high of 4,646 donors, senior College appointments. Mr Muir Sanderson, Mr John Neilson, with 935 donors making their first Chief Financial Officer College Secretary and Registrar regular gift to the College. We welcomed Professor G. ‘Anand’ Anandalingam as Dean of Imperial Its current priority is the Rector’s College Business School and Professor Scholarship Fund, and thanks to the 5 of Management Science. Anand is generosity of alumni and friends, an expert in electronic markets and the College was able to offer 85 new telecommunications networks and was undergraduate scholarships to talented formerly Dean of the Robert H. Smith students from across the world. School of Business at the University Professor Jeff Magee, Professor Dermot Kelleher, The programme also made a large of Maryland, USA. Professor David Dean, Faculty of Engineering Dean, Faculty of Medicine; Vice-President (Health) allocation to support researchers Gann CBE, formerly Deputy Principal through the new Imperial College of the Business School, took up the PhD Scholarship scheme.
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