Annual Report Including the Consolidated Fnancial Statements
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Annual report including the consolidated fnancial statements Year ended 31 July 2018 front1 Report of the governing body 2 – 34 * Board of Governors Public beneft statement 35 – 36 Corporate governance 37 – 43 Statement of responsibilities of the Board of Governors 44 – 45 Chair Chris Pomfret OBE External Auditor Independent auditors’ report to the Board of Governors 46 – 47 Deputy-Chair Charles Wace KPMG LLP Consolidated and University Statement of Comprehensive income 48 Plym House Vice-Chancellor Professor Anne Carlisle 3 Longbridge Road Consolidated and University Statement of Changes in Reserves 49 PLYMOUTH PL6 8LT Balance sheets 50 Audit Committee Chair Andrew Allen Consolidated cashfow statement 51 Independent Governors Mark Carne CBE Notes to the consolidated fnancial statements 52 – 78 Alison Cressey Internal Auditor Tim Jones Bertrand Louveaux Uniac John Mathers 4th Floor St James’ Building Academic Staf Representative Professor Tanya Krzywinska Oxford Street MANCHESTER M1 6FQ Professional Services Staf Representative Alastair Osborn Students’ Union President - Falmouth Callie Edwards Registered Ofce Address Other Ofcers Falmouth Campus Woodlane Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Geof Smith FALMOUTH TR11 4RH Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Alan Murray Chief Operating Ofcer Peter Cox Bankers Director of Finance Rob Holmes Barclays Bank plc Secretary to the Board Dr Robin Kirby 3rd Floor Windsor Court Clerk to the Board Robyn Wyatt 3 Windsor Place CARDIFF CF10 3BX front2 *at date of signing The Heart of our Penryn Campus ©Matt Jessop 1 Falmouth University Report of the governing body Our Chair This year has been another year during which I have We are awaiting the Government’s review of post-18 been proud of Falmouth University’s achievements and education and funding, but we can be sure that the eagerly look forward to seeing the impact of our bold public and political debate around value for money and decision-making further into the future. education funding will continue to intensify. However, we remain committed to delivering the best possible It is a fascinating and rewarding time in which to student experience in terms of teaching, resources and be engaged in the leadership of a Higher Education overall satisfaction, while also widening participation. institution while the sector undergoes a period of change and the wider social and political landscape Likewise, as we anticipate the impact of Brexit, both presents challenges, as well as opportunities, to deliver on Higher Education, Cornwall and the country, real benefts to our students, community and society. Falmouth continues to make a strategic contribution to the development of the local economy, working with Following the enacting into law of the Higher Education partners to develop knowledge capital, create jobs and and Research Act in April 2017, the Ofce for Students, foster business innovation. our new regulatory body, began operation in April 2018; shaping our thinking about student value for money, teaching and research. Increased competition among institutions, combined with falling demographics, has presented challenges in terms of student recruitment and intensifying cost Chris Pomfret OBE pressures, particularly pensions liabilities, have required Chair of the Board of Governors re-evaluations and creative solution-fnding. I am pleased to be able to report, in this document, that notwithstanding these testing circumstances, Falmouth We have welcomed more students than ever before is fourishing. We have welcomed more students than onto our world-class campuses, we’ve increased our ever before onto our world-class campuses, we’ve increased our income and our surplus, which means we income and our surplus, which means we have been have been able to invest in our people and our facilities. able to invest in our people and our facilities. Our Chair Chris Pomfret pictured at the Student Mentor Awards 2018 with 2 Chancellor Dawn French ©Laura Bailey 3 Our Vice-Chancellor This year, I was delighted to launch our 2030 Strategic Of course, our achievements as an anchor institution Plan. Defning our approach and ambition, our vision and innovation hub are contingent on our success for the future is founded in a commitment to fostering as a Higher Education institution and therefore the open innovation, developing a future-focussed satisfaction of our student body and our ability to academic portfolio and producing satisfed staf, recruit future students. researchers and students. Last year we were delighted to be ranked as TEF Working hand-in-hand with regional strategic partners Gold and this is something we are very proud to and our global network of industry leaders, we will retain. However, it was disappointing that Falmouth’s deliver new thinking, ideas, products and services that NSS score dropped this year and the result showed have real impact for individuals, economies and societies. that we cannot aford to be complacent; there is more to do in ensuring that our students feel that all Falmouth’s specialisms of creativity and innovation aspects of their university experience delivered to have never been more relevant and our responsibility and beyond their expectations. to support economic growth through education, never more important. Increased competition among providers and falling demographics made for a challenging recruitment As we consider the implications of the fourth industrial environment this year, however our enrolment fgures revolution; as technology provides great opportunities for 2017/18 were robust and our courses delivered as well as challenges, it’s clear that creative innovation; through collaborative provision online and with industry creative thinking, problem solving, communication and partners are going from strength to strength. storytelling, will be key to future economic and cultural success both at a local and global level. Looking forward, and with regard to our ambitious 2030 targets, we recognise that these challenges remain and This year saw the graduation of our frst full cohort of that we must therefore take steps to continue investing Launchpad students. This ground-breaking programme in our ofering, diversify our income streams and embodies how Falmouth is attracting and retaining talent, acknowledge lower surpluses in the short-term. fostering enterprise and supporting high-tech innovation and generating inward investment, all in partnership with Seeing the raw talent on our campuses, witnessing the local strategic partners and global industry. bold-thinking and brilliant transdisciplinary working, I am, as always, proud of our achievements this year and I am delighted that this year we continued to strengthen looking forward to the year ahead. our relationship with Cornwall Council and deepened Seeing the raw talent on our campuses, witnessing our eforts to help grow Cornwall, as we explored the bold-thinking and brilliant transdisciplinary opportunities to widen the benefts of Falmouth’s activity through projects across the region. working, I am, as always, proud of our achievements this year and looking forward to the year ahead. Professor Anne Carlisle Vice-Chancellor Our Vice-Chancellor Professor 4 Anne Carlisle ©Matt Jessop 5 March Falmouth took the Launchpad programme to Hong Kong, one of only four universities chosen by the government to take part in the Department for International Trade’s GREAT Britain festival. April Falmouth won the Employability and Entrepreneurship award at The Guardian’s December University Awards. The University’s September Working in partnership with Porthcurno Photography and Film student agency, MAYN, Falmouth’s post-graduate business incubation and Museum, academics from Falmouth developed won the award, in recognition of the agency’s acceleration programme, Launchpad, welcomed a prototype for an immersive visitor experience success in securing professional work for its frst full cohort of students by leveraging novel mixed reality technologies. students, while they study. March June Falmouth was ranked 12th of 116 June saw the launch WORK UK Universities in the Times Higher of our 2030 Strategic SHOP Education Student Experience Survey. Plan, an ambitious vision that sees Falmouth University Doing it for Real. IVAL July Opening up our world-class facilities for the frst Workshops January Festival was a celebration of the Falmouth University is announced as a partner in best of Falmouth’s resources, the Creative Technologies Network; a £6.5 million skilled technicians and an project to expand the use of digital technologies opportunity for students to throughout the region’s creative, health and explore new creative avenues. 6manufacturing sectors. 7 Our position Falmouth University has a history of more than 100 years of creative thinking and design innovation. 5,315 Today, its portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate courses represents the breadth of on-campus the Creative Industries, the fastest growing sector in the UK economy. students enrolled The University has recently experienced a period of rapid growth, its on-campus student 694 population tripling in size since 2001 to over 5300 students today. of-campus As well as the courses that are delivered on- enrolments campus in Cornwall, Falmouth also provides ground-breaking online distance learning and exciting partnerships with industry-leading bodies 433 staf including the Academy of Contemporary Music and the Fashion Retail Academy in London. 96.1% Thanks to signifcant investment, Falmouth’s