| Description | Minute books of the Strategy, Planning, and Resources committee, containing minutes of meetings from 17 February 1987 to 15 May 2023. There are also meeting papers but no minutes for the meeting held on 15 November 2011. Minutes for the meeting held on 22 October 1996 are missing. Minutes of meetings held in 2010 and 2011 are unconfirmed. Minutes for the meeting held on 16 June 2015 are missing. Minutes and supporting papers for meetings from the 2019-2020 academic session onwards are held in digital format
Meetings are chaired by Vice Chancellor. Membership included the Vice-Principal, Pro-Chancellor, Treasurer, and lay and academic members of Council. Others attending meetings included the Estates and Buildings Officer, and the Registrar, or a representative of the Registrar's office.
Minutes are arranged in reverse chronological order, with a single minute number sequence.
The committee is the successor to the Vice-Chancellor's Planning committee and continued its work. Early meetings discuss business that had been brought to the Vice-Chancellor's Planning committee, including a review of the administration of the University in light of recommendations of the Working Party on the Jarratt Report, and the formulation of the Academic Plan. It was responsible for drawing up the aims and mission statement of the University to provide a framework for the University-wide Institutional Plan, and the minutes include copies of planning statements; corporate strategy; successive institutional plans; and the University Strategic Framework 2010-2015
The committee's other main functions are to manage the allocation of resources, and the minutes contain information about the institution's finances, including copies of annual accounts, financial forecasts and budgets, student admission targets, income and expenditure analysis, and reports from Academic Budget Centres. Minutes discuss management issues relating to academic and administrative departments; costs of accommodation and catering; campus infrastructure and the condition of buildings, and the financial implications of constructing new buildings or making repairs and extensions to existing buildings. Minutes also contain information about income generation, and restructuring departments to make financial savings.
There are some overlaps with the functions of other committees. The committee worked with the Estates committee to discuss the Capital Programme and demand for capital funds, as well as the utilisation of space on campus and functional suitability of buildings. It also received reports of the Staffing committee (renamed Personnel committee in October 2000) in relation to the allocation of resources for staff posts. It received reports of the Committee of Principals and Deans, and sometimes also reports of the Information Technology committee in the 1990s, as part of the strategy to install a high speed campus communications network, and in relation to the development of IT security and code of practice. Other committees including the Investments sub-committee, Scholarship Board, and Equality and Diversity committee also submitted reports, and the minutes also contain copies of the Human Resources strategy.
Minutes also contain copies of strategic reviews and internal audits of a number of academic and administrative services, including the Library, Estate Management Office, Housing Services, and Hospitality and Accommodation Services. The committee also discussed the allocation of the Guild of Students block grant, and minutes include copies of block grant bids and financial forecasts for the Guild of Students for the 2000s and 2010s |