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Annual report 2010
- Exeter was ranked among the top 200 universities in the world for the first time, coming 184th in the THE World University Rankings.
- We were ranked among the top 100 fastest-growing organisations in Europe and top 25 in the UK in a survey by business analysts Dun and Bradstreet.
- We are proposing to charge a £9,000 UK and European Union undergraduate fee across all programmes for new entrants from September 2012. Nobody from these areas has to pay anything upfront and we will have a generous scheme of bursaries and fee waivers in place. This will enable us to continue to provide a student experience of the highest quality and more fully fund widening participation measures so that students can attend Exeter irrespective of family income, subject to approval by the Office for Fair Access.
- We continued our strong performance in national league tables, being ranked 12th in the Times Good University Guide and retaining our top 10 position for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey.
- We saw the employability of our students improve, despite the dire economic situation, with 70.3 per cent of them finding graduate-level jobs or further study within six months of leaving.
- The ongoing £275 million capital development programme on the Streatham Campus progressed well. New student accommodation at Birks and Duryard, the INTO international students centre on Stocker Road, the new Business School building and Biosciences refurbishment were all delivered by the early part of 2011.
- At our Cornwall Campus, the Environment and Sustainability Institute won formal approval, securing £30 million in investment from the European Regional Development Fund, the South West RDA, HEFCE and the University.
- The Students’ Guild was officially recognised as the best student union in the UK in the 2010 NUS Awards.
- An Environmental Sustainability Policy was launched. For the first time pay and rewards were linked to emissions targets with staff challenged to deliver a five per cent reduction of CO2 in order to qualify for the annual bonus.
- The HR department delivered the biggest recruitment drive in the University’s history. Full-time equivalent academic headcount increased by 13.6 per cent, an increase of 200 staff.
- We received the highest ever level of research awards at nearly £50 million.
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Read more about our success, and our exciting plans for the future, in the Annual Report 2010.
