Agenda item

To agree the public minutes and summary of the meeting held on 14 November 2016.

The public minutes of the meeting held on 14 November 2016 were considered and approved as a correct record.

MATTERS ARISING

Terms of Reference and Frequency of Meetings (page 3) – The Chairman reported that he and the Town Clerk were actively seeking to move the May meeting each year to July in order to better accommodate reporting deadlines around the five year financial forecasts ahead of their submission to HEFCE in July.

Higher Education and Research Bill (page 3) – A Co-opted Governor updated the Board on progress of the Bill by reporting the proposed reforms had been rejected by the House of Lords after the Government had failed to include any of the changes that Peers had called for. It was, however, envisaged that the basics of the Bill would continue to go through as originally intended.

Academic Board – Annual Report (page 5) – The Chairman reported that an informal Working Party would be convened from September 2017 to look at this report in greater detail ahead of its presentation to the Board in November each year.