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UKSG Conference
4th-6th April 2011
Brave New World: rebooting UK HE
Professor Sir John O’Reilly
Vice-Chancellor
Cranfield University
Concerning Titles
Perhaps
My PhDmore
Thesis
accurately
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Random
Topics in Topics
Random
in Signal
Signal Theory
Why do I mention this?
Topics
Library Budgets
Tuition Fees
HE Financing
Student Support
RDP?
Research
Innovation
PGT?
Capital
International
My Perspective
Cranfield Perspective
The UK’s Wholly Postgraduate STEM University
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Lancaster
Exeter
Aston
King's College…
Edinburgh
Oxford
Cardiff
Aberdeen
Salford
Kingston
Bath
Bristol
Cambridge
Strathclyde
Warwick
Coventry
Birmingham
Heriot-Watt
Nottingham
Southampton
Leeds
Brunel
Surrey
Sheffield
Newcastle
Loughborough
Imperial College
Manchester
Cranfield
Number of Postgraduate students
The Postgraduate Dimension
Number of Postgraduate Engineering & Technology students: 2008/09
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
Global Reach
Origin of Students
Research Contract Income
Research income by continent: 2009/10
Total student headcount: 2010
UK; 2238
Europe, 11.7%
Asia; 926
UK, 82.8%
Other, 17.2%
Other; 1434
North America,
4.3%
Africa, 0.3%
Asia, 0.7%
Oceania, 0.2%
North America; 79
Europe; 1093
Students from
120 countries
2000 Masters
students
800 Doctoral Students
Africa; 341
Oceania; 42
South America; 46
International press
presence
Demand for HE in UK?
360,000 FT undergraduate UCAS
acceptances in 2009
In past 6 years applicants increased
>50% faster than acceptances
Population peak for 18-20s in 2011
(although other factors moderate this
in terms of demand for UG places)
Population peak for 21-24 in 2014
and for 25-28 in 2018
Undergraduate demand and provision
The ‘Old’ World:
Student Numbers
1,600,000
Student headcount in the UK
1,400,000
1,200,000
1,000,000
800,000
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
600,000
400,000
200,000
1999/00 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10
Academic year
The ‘Old’ World:
Undergraduate ‘Top-Up’
Fees
Get SET for the
Knowledge Economy
Science and innovation
investment framework
2004-2014
“the science base is the absolute bedrock of our economic performance”
Right Hon. Tony Blair, (then) British Prime Minister
“Making the UK the best place in the World to do science
The ‘Old’ World:
Total Income to HEIs
30,000,000
Total income to HEIs: 1998/99 to 2009/10
Endowment and investment income
25,000,000
Other income
Research grants and contracts
Tuition fees and education contracts
Income (£'000)
20,000,000
Funding Council Grants
15,000,000
10,000,000
5,000,000
1998/99 1999/00 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10
On Habit
The chains of habit are too
weak to be felt until they are too
strong to be broken
Samuel Johnson
New horizons . . .
. . . are not discovered by following old
roads
Post-election
Budget
Universities in the News
Some of the Players
David Willetts MP
Minister of State
Universities and Science
Lord Browne
Review of HE
Funding and
Student Finance
Prof Adrian Smith
Director General
Knowledge & Innovation
Postgraduate Review
Sir Alan Langlands
Chief Executive
HEFCE
Samuel Johnson
Could it possibly have been the Browne review
he was referring to?. . .
“Your manuscript is both good and original,
. . . but the part that is good is not original,
. . . and the part that is original is not good.”
Student finance from 2012
 The Government has set out plans to reform the way it
funds higher education and the financial support it offers
students at higher education institutions and further
education colleges.
 These changes will apply to students beginning courses
in September 2012.
 Under these arrangements, universities and colleges will
be able to charge up to £6,000 per year in tuition fees.
Some will be able to charge up to £9,000 per year.
Advice from
Yogi Berra
"You've got to be very careful if
you don't know where you're
going, . . . because you might
not get there."
Engineering Systems Department
Langton’s ant
• If the ant is on a black square, it turns right 90° and
moves forward one unit.
• If the ant is on a white square, it turns left 90° and
moves forward one unit.
• When the ant leaves a square, it inverts the colour.
Langton’s Ant, shown above, is a
cellular automata in the two
dimensional plane that operates
under very simple rules yet
produces results that are
seemingly unpredictable.
Project support: EPSRC and Dstl
Commplexity and
Emergence
After 386 steps
After 10,647 steps
Highway
Shared Concerns
Universities and Colleges Information
Services Association
Shared Concerns
Universities and Colleges Information
Services Association
Strategic Importance
• Ongoing funding and sustainable resourcing [of IT]
• Delivering services under severe financial constraints
• Providing a quality, resilient service
• Organisational change and process improvement
Using most senior [IT/IS] management time
• [IT] Strategy and planning
•Ongoing funding and sustainable resourcing (of IT)
• Delivering services under severe financial constraints
• Providing a quality, resilient service
HEFCE consultation:
RDP funding method
Consultation on allocation method for RDP funding
Symbiosis between (PG) teaching and research
Availability and usage of Research Journals
International
“Science and the arts belong to the whole world.
The barriers of nationality vanish before them.“
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“There is no national science, just as there is
no national multiplication table.“
Anton Chekov
UK Border Agency
and VISAs
UK Border Agency
and VISAs
Government outlines overhaul of student visas
22 March 2011
Tougher entrance criteria,
limits on work entitlements
and the closure of the poststudy work route are among
the changes to the student
visa system announced
today by Home Secretary
Theresa May.
Out-turn much less bad than feared!
Generation and flow of
knowledge and skills
Companies
£
Knowledge
Transfer
Innovation
Knowledge and Skills
Research & Research Training
universities
Knowledge transfer
The Princess and the Frog
 Successful innovating
companies are the “princes”
of wealth creation
 But to find a ‘prince’ you
have to kiss a lot of frogs!
Successful
Companies
Innovation
Knowledge & Skills
Research
Kissing frogs!
 In the business of “kissing frogs”
to ensure that the nation has the
knowledge and skills needed to
produce a future generation of
“Princes of Wealth Creation”
Professor John Spillman
Scholarship
“The tip sails developed by Professor John Spillman
at Cranfield as a means of controlling tip vortices
have attracted NASA's attention and will be ...”
Flight International
Our Carbon Footprint –
Cranfield Green
50% reduction
in 5 years
Carbon Management Programme
Carbon Management Plan
Cranfield Carbon
Brainprint
•The impact of our work reducing the carbon footprint of others is
“Cranfield’s Carbon Brainprint”
•Methodology for calculating carbon brainprint
•Examples:
- Turbine blade coatings (saving 30x Cranfield’s emissions
p.a.)
- Logistics – economic routing
- Novel ‘vertical axis’ wind turbines
- Environment Agency landfill gas inspectors (saving 60x
Cranfield’s emissions p.a.)
Carbon Brainprint
Programme sponsors:
Steering group:
Cranfield, Carbon Trust, Cambridge and Reading
Definition, scope and guiding principles (Work package WP1)
Project team: Cranfield develops methodology
(WP 2)
Cranfield and partners test methodology with case studies (WP 3)
Cranfield and partners finalise methodology, write up case
studies and publish report
(WP 4)
Cranfield
Case study
1
Cranfield
Case study…
Cambridge
Case study
2
Cranfield
Case study
3
Reading
Case study
4
“Do not follow
where the path
may lead, go
instead where
there is no path
and leave a trail”
UKSG Conference
4th-6th April 2011
Brave New World: rebooting UK HE
Professor Sir John O’Reilly
Vice-Chancellor
Cranfield University
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Acknowledgements
Copying from one source is plagiarism . . .
. . copying from many is research.
This presentation was very widely researched!
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