UAS Conference Series 2013/14
Conference of Colleges
Julian Smith, David Locke
and Caroline Pack
1 October 2013
14 September 2010
Page 1
Conference of Colleges
Enables colleges to act collectively on issues
that matter to them
Acts as a voice for college interests within the
University community
QS World University Rankings 2013
3rd – Cambridge
6th – Oxford
45th – Copenhagen
50th – Heidelberg
51st – Glasgow
77th – Leuven / Louvain
79th – Uppsala
83rd – St Andrews
Endowment
($ bn) (2012)
Students
(undergrad)
(2009)
Students
(postgrad)
(2009)
Tenured faculty
(USA) (2005)
Caltech
1.8
951
1,179
n/a
Stanford
17.0
6,602
11,301
714
Oxford - colleges
1.4 (2011)
11,765
8,701
849 college funded
posts
Oxford – university
4.6 (2011)
Harvard
30.4
6,655
12,999
841
MIT
10.1
4,232
6,152
701
Princeton
17.0
5,047
2,520
543
Cambridge
6.7
12,006
5,521
755 joint
appointments
Colleges: a key part of the University fabric
•
£250m on teaching, research and residential
provision
•
£65m on academic staff
•
Junior Research Fellowships, research centres,
grants and other financial support for research
•
Multi-disciplinary communities
2010 figures
•
14,500 beds for students
•
£2.5m on college sport
•
£15m in scholarships, grants etc, plus hardship
support (but $117m a year in need-based grants
at Stanford alone!)
•
£26m via Conference Oxford
2010 figures
Conference’s contribution to University
policy-making
•
Conference representatives on Council, Council’s main
Committees, and on all academic Divisional Boards
•
On about 70 other University or joint Committees and
working groups
•
Relevant senior University / Divisional Officer(s) attend
as observers at Conference Committees, and are
members of ADEX and ADCOM
•
Heads of Division and the PVCs attend Conference
Conference’s contribution to University
policy-making
•
Joint groups and committees report jointly to
Conference and to Council and its committees
•
Joint ‘contact groups’ for each Division feed into
a termly meeting of the ‘Consultative Forum’
Development
Directors
Development Panel
Legal Panel
Four Divisional Contact
Groups
Monitoring and
Moderation Board
Consultative Forum
Personnel Working
Group
Admissions
Executive*
CICTC
Joint Student Number
Planning SubCommittee
Admissions
Tutors
Domestic Bursars
Estates Bursars
Steering
Committee
Graduate Tutors
CCL
Senior Tutors
*also reports to
Education Committee &
Council
Conference
Joint Resource
Allocation Advisory
Board
Joint Fees and Student
Support Advisory
Group
Visit us.....
www.confcoll.ox.ac.uk
• Public access to website homepage
• Access to full website via single sign-on
• Website contains:
• Contact details for Conference Officers
• Google calendar of dates
• Times and venues of Committee meetings
• Conference Committee members and papers
• Publicly available information, e.g. Financial
Statements, Appeal Tribunal procedures
Sir Jonathan Phillips
Chairman of Conference
Warden, Keble
Professor Paul Madden
Deputy Chair of Conference
Provost, Queen’s
Julian Smith
Director of Secretariat
Caroline Pack
Senior Policy Adviser
Academic policy
David Locke
Senior Policy Advisor
Financial affairs
Rita Rattray
Policy Adviser
Denise Cripps
Policy Advisor (part-time)
Tabitha Schenk
Administrator