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Annual Review and Financial Statements Annual Review and Financial Statements 2017 - 18 TOP 50* UK UNIVERSITY *44th of 121 UK institutions in the Guardian League Tables 2019 staffs.ac.uk 1 Contents 03 Chair’s Foreword 04 Vice-Chancellor’s Report 06 Connected Strategy 08 Key Highlights 10 Our Role 12 A Global University 14 Student Experience 16 Campus Transformation and Estates 17 Higher Apprenticeships 18 Employability 19 Sport at Staffordshire University 20 Research 22 Sustainability 23 Collaborative Academic Partnerships 24 Risk Management Framework 26 Financial Review 30 Corporate Governance 32 Responsibility of the Board of Governors 33 Public benefit statement 34 List of Governors, Executive and Advisors 35 Auditor’s Report and Opinion 36 Financial Statements 2 Annual Review and Financial Statements 2017-18 Chair’s foreword This year has seen us build on • Being a fundamental part of the our 2017 number one ranking for communities we touch to employability (excluding specialist increase aspiration and institutions) and silver Teaching attainment. Excellence Framework (TEF) rating of 2016/17. We are very proud to have Meaningful partnerships are at the won the Times Higher Education’s heart of many of our achievements ‘Most Improved Student Experience’ and we are engaged collaboratively award and to have been the highest across the region with councils, the climber in The Complete University Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce, Guide league tables. We are currently the Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire on track to achieve a gold rating in the Local Enterprise Partnership and a 2021 TEF and to reach our ambitions wide range of sporting and charitable for our league table positions and organisations. financial sustainability. David Gage MBE, DL The changes to our Board structure Chair of the Board of Governors The Board is indebted to our over the last 12 months, reducing ambitious and committed academic from 16 to 10 independent Board and professional services staff for their members and introducing a Strategy This year has seen Staffordshire vital contributions to achieving these and Performance Committee, has University grow tremendously in fantastic outcomes. I also thank the seen us improve both our efficiency terms of our student experience, Students’ Union for its tireless work and effectiveness. our achievements and our to support students and its open and influence locally and nationally. positive approach to working with our One of our Board members came managers. to the end of her final third term Higher education continues to be this year. On behalf of the University a competitive and transforming Whilst the higher education and Board I would like to thank sector, and our strategic and environment and requirements of Cordella Bart-Stewart for her tireless financial plans have given us the universities change, our fundamental dedication and commitment. In the strength to advance our position role in developing skills and last 12 months we have welcomed to the benefit of students, staff, supporting social mobility does not. Kevin Gould as an independent partners and our communities. Staffordshire University has a critical member and someone with a role to play in: wealth of governance, audit and Our position as an anchor risk experience. I am also indebted • improving quality of life regionally, to all our Board members for institution – a civic university nationally and globally by their unstinting commitment and serving all of our diverse increasing the opportunities guidance. communities – is fundamental for people to gain a Staffordshire to our values and ethos. Our University award. And finally, it was a privilege to performance this year, and join students and their families at prospects for next, give us a • closing the regional skills gap by our Graduation Week at Trentham strong platform to continue to developing graduate-level Gardens in July. It was a marvellous improve people’s lives across employees and entrepreneurs occasion to celebrate their the region and beyond. who support employers to achievements and to welcome our innovate and grow. new honorary doctors. David Gage MBE, DL Chair of the Board of Governors staffs.ac.uk 3 Vice-Chancellor’s report We have an unrelenting focus on understanding the needs of the future Universities are about enhancing putting our students first and providing jobs market, are enabling us to offer life choices and transforming an excellent student experience, our students and employers the right enabling them to achieve the best they courses in a fast-moving digital world. lives. We pride ourselves on can. Our core themes of Innovative recruiting students from diverse and Applied Learning, Connecting The student experience is at the backgrounds and enabling them Communities, and Talented People, heart of everything we do so it was reflect our approach to staff, students particularly pleasing that we won to shape their learning experience and our communities, as we work the Times Higher Education’s Most to suit their lifestyles and together to enhance performance and Improved Student Experience award aspirations. We encourage our deliver benefits for all. this year. Alongside that, in April 2018 students to dare to be different, we were announced as the highest Our transformation of our campuses riser in the Complete University Guide to aim to achieve great things has continued, with the confirmation of league table and were shortlisted for and support them through their our £17m Office for Students funded the THELMA Outstanding Leadership journey providing an excellent Apprenticeship and Digital Skills and Management Team award. Hub announced in January and the learning experience. extension of the project to be a £40m Supporting our graduates to find iconic development announced in May. employment is a priority. We continue Staffordshire University is in The 2018/19 academic year has seen to increase the number of employers adult nursing facilities come to our we work with and the opportunities the midst of exciting times. In a Stoke campus, and in September 2018 for students to experience real-world landscape of seismic change in we were the first university in the UK to learning through initiatives such as Higher Education, we have a new offer undergraduate and postgraduate placements, live briefs and employer- strategy and have reshaped the courses in Esports. Our flexible informed courses. approach, and skills in predicting and way we work, ensuring that we are fit for the future and able to seize emerging opportunities and manage challenges. This has engendered an optimism and energy amongst our staff and students, who are playing a central role in shaping our future. 4 Annual Review and Financial Statements 2016-17 Applied Connectivity of our local population. The May conference of over 300 local community members, held at our Creating Our applied research strategy is about Stoke-on-Trent campus, helped set Connections impact. Academic staff in our School the future direction for our work as of Life Sciences and Education are a civic institution playing an anchor Connectivity is integral to investigating the psychosocial predictors role in the region. our success, and our of suicidality amongst at risk groups and are part of formulating the county’s commitment to improving Over the next 12 months, we will suicide prevention action plan. educational aspirations and be looking to increase our research increasing social mobility income and ensure that we carry Our Centre for Health and Development remains central to our role. out projects that have real benefits (CHAD), an innovative partnership to productivity, the economy and between the University, Stoke-on- communities. In the last year we’ve Trent City Council and Staffordshire strengthened and created County Council, continues to work to Professor Liz Barnes partnerships, renewed reduce health and social inequalities Vice-Chancellor relationships and worked and improve the health and wellbeing collaboratively across the region in line with these ambitions. We were a key part of the city’s bid to bring a Channel 4 creative hub to Staffordshire and were involved in the WW1 trail that complemented the ‘Weeping Window’ poppy display that came to Middleport Pottery this year. Our partnership with the University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) has seen the creation of a new healthcare apprenticeship and we have maintained our strong links with the armed forces, Stoke City FC, Ryman’s National Enterprise Challenge, Chambers of Commerce Business Awards and The Sentinel Business Awards. In addition, we are driving the region’s digital agenda, working with Microsoft and Staffordshire County Council to run community digital events in the heart of Stafford and having one of the widest-portfolios of digitally applied apprenticeships in the country. staffs.ac.ukstaffs.ac.uk 5 Connected strategy Strategic Plan – The Connected University In 2016 the new Strategic Plan to 2020 was approved – ‘The Connected University’. The plan is supported by three core These in turn are underpinned by four strategies: resource strategies: • Innovative and Applied Learning ° Finance • Connecting Communities ° Digital ° Human Resources and • Talented People Organisational Development ° Estates Key performance indicators have In the Gold Financially been established standard in sustainable in for the life of the top 50% in the UK the Teaching accordance with plan. By 2021, we Excellence our Strategic aim to be: league tables Framework Financial Plan The values of the University
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