Our Vice-Chancellor

2 July 2010

Dear Colleagues,

As we draw to the close of the summer term, I want to take this opportunity to reflect back, not only on the past year at Warwick, but on the last few weeks, in which we have seen a flurry of challenging news headlines. In terms of funding, we still won’t know the details of precisely where government cuts will fall until after the Comprehensive Spending Review is unveiled in October but we have just seen a budget that promises at least a 25 per cent cut in the budgets of ‘unprotected’ departments such as the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by 2014/2015. We also face a VAT rise of 2.5% from January 2011.

9 December 2009

Dear Colleagues,

The Warwick community has much to celebrate this year. In the last few weeks I have been delighted to receive a flood of reports on the outstanding achievements of Warwick staff. Most recently, you will have seen that Warwick Manufacturing Group has received a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. But there is more, much more. For example, we will shortly be able to announce the names of two members of staff in History and Chemistry who have received prestigious European Research Council Advanced Investigator Awards. We will also be able to give more details this week on the news that the Mathematics and Statistics Departments have won £4 million from the EPSRC for a Doctoral Training Centre. And, of course, we were all pleased to note that we have risen another twenty places in the Shanghai JiaoTong world league table.