Congregation Meeting, 8 February 2011

This website provides information about the Congregation meeting, which was held on Tuesday 8 February to discuss undergraduate funding and support from 2012/13.  

 A Congregation meeting was held on 8 February to discuss undergraduate funding and support from 2012/13 in the context of the new financial arrangements for higher education approved by Parliament in December 2010 (with further legislative decisions by Parliament to follow).

Views expressed at the discussion will be taken into account by Council when it deliberates on these matters at its meeting of 14 March. In accordance with the regulation governing topics for discussion, no vote was taken at the Congregation meeting, but Council will be required to give consideration to the remarks made. After the Congregation discussion, the issues will be developed through college and divisional structures. 

Speakers in the discussion (in order)

• Professor Tony Monaco, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resources)
• Mr Mike Nicholson, Director of Undergraduate Admissions
• Dr Frances Lannon, Chairman of the Conference of Colleges and Principal of Lady Margaret Hall
• Mr David Barclay, Worcester College, President of OUSU (the Oxford University Student Union)
• Professor Susan Cooper, Department of Physics, St Catherine's College
• Professor David Norbrook, Merton College, English Faculty
• Mr Roger Boden, Chairman of the Estates Bursars’ Committee of the Conference of Colleges and Bursar of Keble College
• Dr Jeff Tseng, University Lecturer in Physics, St Edmund Hall
• Professor Paul Madden, Provost of The Queen’s College
• Mr Alex Bulfin, University College, OUSU Vice-President for Access and Academic Affairs
• Dr Rowan Tomlinson, Fellow and Tutor in French, New College
• Mr Tim Gardam, Chairman of the Undergraduate Admissions Committee and Principal of St Anne’s College
• Dr Andrew Timms, Director of Development, The Queen’s College
• Professor Nick Rawlins, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Development and External Affairs)
• Ms Hannah Cusworth, Brasenose College, OUSU Vice-President-elect for Access and Academic Affairs
• Dr Conrad Leyser, Fellow and Tutor in History, Worcester College
  
• Mr Robin Briggs, Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College
• Dr Kate Tunstall, University Lecturer in French, Fellow of Worcester College
• Mr Bernard Sufrin, Emeritus Fellow and Tutor in Computation, Worcester College
• Dr John Parrington, University Lecturer in Pharmacology, and Fellow of Worcester College
• Dr Stuart White, Tutor in Politics, Jesus College
• Professor Patrick McGuinness, St Anne's College
• Ms Megan Edwards, MCR President, Lady Margaret Hall
• Ms Rebecca Sparrow, undergraduate, Wadham College
• Mr Christopher O’Connor, JCR/MCR President, St Benet’s Hall, and OUSU Common Room Support Officer
• Ms Beth Evans, OUSU Vice-President for Graduate and International Students
• Professor Tony Monaco, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resources) (closing remarks)

A transcript of the discussion is available in the right-hand column of this website.