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Annual Report and Financial Statements 2014/15 Annual Report & Financial Statements 2014/15 0 | P a g e Charity Number: 1147717 Company Number: 08049710 CONTENTS Chief Executive’s Report ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Operating and Financial Review ...................................................................................................................................................... 10 Report of the Governors and Corporate Governance Statement ...................................................................................... 14 Independent Auditor’s Report to the Board of Governors of Harper Adams University ......................................... 21 Statement of Accounting Policies ................................................................................................................................................... 23 Consolidated Income and Expenditure Account For the Year to 31 July 2015 ............................................................ 28 Statement of Consolidated Total Recognised Gains and Losses ....................................................................................... 29 Balance Sheet as at 31 July 2015..................................................................................................................................................... 30 Consolidated Cash Flow Statement ............................................................................................................................................... 31 Notes to the Financial Statements ................................................................................................................................................. 32 Five Year Summary Accounts ........................................................................................................................................................... 52 Glossary of Terms .................................................................................................................................................................................. 53 1 | P a g e Charity Number: 1147717 Company Number: 08049710 Chief Executive’s Report Harper Adams University delivers higher leading to a rating of over 60% for education in support of the agricultural, these categories in the next Research agricultural engineering, food science and Excellence Framework. technology, environmental science, veterinary science and land-based sectors. It is one of 4. Influence: We will enhance the role and only three English HE institutions specialising reputation of Harper Adams as a in these subject areas. The University offers contributor to national policy formulation multi-disciplinary courses that contain a firm and delivery to improve rural economic grounding in science and technology to meet development and the UK’s contribution the needs of industry, and to help create to global food security. professionals able to deal with the application of science in the production of food, the 5. Efficiency: We will maintain our management of natural resources and the expenditure on administrative activities creation of renewable energy. The University is below the median, when benchmarked also an important source of independent against other small and specialist UK knowledge, advice and education to those higher education institutions, in order already working in these vital sectors and is to allow us to focus resources, playing an increasing role in applied research including new technologies, on of benefit to industry and society. efficient teaching and the support of Furthermore, it has a key role to play in a our students. rapidly developing policy environment where its subject base is of increasing importance to The Strategic Plan acts as a framework to the UK economy and to the challenge of guide our investment plans and to focus on achieving global food security. areas where further efficiencies can be delivered. Each year we produce a Corporate During 2014/15 we developed a new Strategic Planning Statement which helps put our Plan to cover the period from 2015 to 2020. Strategy into operation and which provides a Our strategy has five key aims: means to monitor progress via the Board of Governors, the Academic Board and their 1. Education: We will grow the committees. The Corporate Planning population of the University to 3,000 Statement for 2015/16 was approved by the FTE students, whilst attracting those Board of Governors in July 2015. At the same already in the professions who need time, a final progress report on the Statement to extend their understanding and for 2014/15 was assessed. All of the objectives expertise, thereby providing a for the year were found to have been delivered community of learning that will or were in the process of being delivered. Our appeal to rural and urban students close scrutiny of progress against our from the UK and overseas. academic and institutional objectives, and the link between this work and our regular reviews 2. Engagement: We will enhance our of corporate risks, enables us to ensure that we engagement with industry and local achieve our targets and effectively deliver our enterprise partnerships to help grow our Strategy. capacity for education, research and knowledge exchange. The higher education funding environment remains in a state of flux, with continuing 3. Research: We will move from a pressure on Government funding and debate position where over 50% of our about the way in which the proposed Teaching research in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework could impact on tuition Excellence Framework was assessed as fee levels. The University has successfully internationally excellent or world managed to accommodate in-year funding 2 | P a g e Charity Number: 1147717 Company Number: 08049710 cuts in 2014/15, but if this trend is to continue, We have also engaged with HEFCE, and with the provision of high-quality education in the BBSRC, during 2014/15, to ensure that high-cost subjects will require an increased demand for agri-food courses is better focus on reducing expenditure and raising understood and that concerns about the alternative sources of revenue. Since 2010 the supply of postgraduate research students, in University has cut its other operating costs by particular, can be addressed. over 14%, and increased other income by an equivalent amount, but our ability to continue We have continued to play a strong role in the to do this in future will depend upon creating local economy by closer collaboration with the an agile and more flexible academic portfolio. Marches LEP, where we have members on the We are addressing these concerns in a LEP Board and the local ESIF Committee. The Curriculum Review and plan to assess the way University has taken the lead role for agri- in which staff time is best used, to deliver high technology and agri-food elements of the quality teaching and research, during the LEP’s Strategic Economic Plan, and will work course of 2015/16. with local businesses to encourage inward investment through its initiatives in the External Policy Environment national Strategy for Agricultural Technologies. In addition to the financial issues being Our international work has also progressed, addressed by the higher education sector with new collaborations in China yielding there are other policy developments that have positive results for student recruitment and occurred in the last year to which we have had research; partnerships with leading universities to devote time and resources. These include in the USA where we can promote exchanges the proposed revision of the sector’s quality of students; and training programmes in assurance system; changes to the Tier 4 visa countries such as Zambia and Saudi Arabia. system and continuing concerns about the Government’s position on immigration and its Student Recruitment and Experience impact on international student recruitment; the implementation of the new Prevent Undergraduate recruitment in 2014 was not as mechanism; and the role of universities in the positive as in 2013. We admitted 631 new economic growth and productivity agendas students and saw particularly strong being promoted by Government. We have recruitment in agriculture where we have the actively addressed all of these issues, and largest cohort of students in the UK. The many more, to ensure that we remain at the position for 2015/16 is, however, much forefront of policy developments in the sector. improved and we have seen high application and acceptance levels across the full range of At the same time we have been engaged in our courses. Taught postgraduate student the national Strategy for Agricultural recruitment was also positive in 2014 when, Technologies, progressing our bid for a Centre with 348 total enrolments, we admitted our for Innovation in Agricultural Engineering and highest ever intake. Again, the prospects for Precision Farming and connecting with the the 2015 entry are even better, though there is consortium bidding for a Livestock Centre for a trend towards more full-time and fewer part- Innovation. We expect the results of this work time home students and more international to be announced during 2015/16. We have students. Postgraduate research student also participated in the early stages of the numbers have similarly been good, and we development of DEFRA’s 25 year plan for food currently have a total of 69 students across a and farming in
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