Fees Working Group

Membership
Terms of Reference
Reporting Structure
Secretariat
Meetings

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Membership 2025/26

The Academic Registrar (Chair)	Adam Child
Head of Student Finance	Sue Jones
CFO for SEM (excluding WMG and WMS)	Teng Zhang
Group Accountant	Chris Swift
Associate Director of Student Recruitment	Sarah Booth
Associate Director Market Research and Insight	Alicia Buckley
Head of the Doctoral College	Rhiannon Martyn
President of the Students' Union	Alijah Taha (2026)
Three Vice-Provosts/ Chairs of Faculty or designated nominees	Oliver Cooper (Faculty of Arts) Professor Mike Ward (Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine) Professor James Hayton (Faculty of Social Sciences)

Note: The year after a member's name indicates that their term of office expires on 31 July of that year. Independent members from the Council can change annually.

In Attendance:

Strategic Planning Manager (Strategic Planning, Education Group) (Secretary)

Planning Coordinator (Strategic Planning, Education Group) (Assistant Secretary)

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Terms of Reference

The remit of the Fees Working Group (FWG) is to:

1. Set the annual tuition fee setting timetable.
2. Consider requests for approval of, and alterations to, tuition fees and other academic fees, and associated fees policies, and to make recommendations to the Financial Plan Committee (FPC) and Policy Oversight Group (POG) as appropriate.
3. Undertake benchmarking and research activity as appropriate to ensure that the University’s fee setting decision making is properly informed and contextualised, with particular reference to informing the work of the Academic Strategy Committee.
4. Identify and disseminate best practice with regard to setting optimum tuition fees and management of payments.
5. Incorporate consideration of scholarship and bursary funding when assessing the appropriateness of existing and future fee levels.
6. Maintain oversight of forms of student/alumni discounts other than academic partnership, progression or sponsorship agreements (which will continue to be approved by FWG Chair’s Action and reported back to the Group).
7. Undertake periodic reviews of all tuition and academic fees to identify inconsistencies and consider appropriate amendments to fee levels accordingly.

FWG has delegated responsibility to scrutinise Degree Apprenticeship fees to the Chair of the Group.

Reporting Procedures

The Group submits reports of its business and recommendations for approval to the Financial Plan Committee (FPC).

Approved minutes of Fees Working Group meetings will be provided below-the-line (for information only) for meetings of the Academic Strategy Committee (ASC).

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Secretariat

Secretary: James Evans, Strategic Planning Manager

Assistant Secretary: Claire Wightman, Planning Coordinator

Contact: FeesWorkingGroup@warwick.ac.uk

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Meetings

Dates of meetings of the Fees Working Group can be found within the University Committee Timetable.

The Timetable is published and updated online and should be referred to when verifying arrangements throughout the academic year.

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