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Membership 2024/25

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 Enaya Nihal (2025)
Three Vice-Provosts/ Chairs of Faculty or designated nominees

Professor James Hayton (Faculty of Social Sciences)

Professor Rachel Moseley (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)

Professor Mike Ward (Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine)

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)

Senior Data Product Manager (Warwick Data Labs)

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

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Terms of Reference

The remit of the Fees Working Group 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.

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/ Tezi Holden

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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