Annual Academic Year Review 2007-2008 (17th edition)

The WP team also ran another very successful summer school which was attended by 50 year 11 pupils. The Professor Fluffy project was extended and 230 year 5 and 6 pupils in local schools were involved in these events.

2.5 International recruitment

2.5.1 Target markets

2.5.2 Agent & Overseas Exhibition activities

IO and academic staff attended a wide range of exhibitions in key country markets and provided counselling, student interviews, alumni relations activities in these countries. The agent network was reviewed in terms of performance indicators and potential network development and appropriate support activities e.g. Agent Training Week [Jan 08]. In conjunction with Marketing and academic contacts within Schools, IO staff contributed to the development of a coordinated strategy within the University to complement School/Faculty recruitment/development priorities. A particularly interesting initiative was the ‘in-house testing’ of students in-country in Taiwan in June 2008 by School of Language and IO staff with a view to joining pre-sessional/EMMA and then subsequent Masters programmes. Around 12 students, who would otherwise not have come to Brighton, appear to have been recruited as a result of this, at this stage. This will be repeated and extended in 2008-2009.

2.5.3 International Collaborations/Partnerships

IO staff initiated and contributed to the formalisation of a number of new international collaborations and partnerships in countries such as India, China, Japan and Korea. They also liaised with Faculties/Schools/Registry Partnerships with regard to the support for existing collaborations and partnerships and the recruitment/international development activities that might arise from these.

2.5.4 Internationalisation activities

IO staff contributed to the implementation of the Student Administrative Improvement Programme (SAIP) process reviews and their outcomes, in particular with regard to the PG admission review. The internationalisation audit involved steering group attendance, the facilitation of student focus groups, workshop attendance and the writing up of a series of audit reports. The i-graduate International Student Barometer was also commissioned to support the audit outcomes.

2.5.5 International Student Marketing

A new 2009 International student prospectus was produced in conjunction with Marketing staff, as were other international student marketing materials e.g. website development, banners, flyers, country-specific advertisements. The international student country fact sheets were up-dated, as were the guides to international student qualification equivalences. The Brighton Partner College International Foundation Year was established with City College, Brighton, Sussex Downs College and Sussex Coast College, Hastings with accompanying mini-prospectus and application form and application procedures. This should aid recruitment onto University of Brighton UG programmes from 2009 entry.

2.5.6 International Student Support

IO staff were involved, in conjunction with Student Services, in the preparations for the international student orientation week. On the basis of the International Student Barometer outcomes, IO staff contributed to meetings at which recommendations were proposed and discussed. The IO also organised an International Student Celebration event at the Sallis Benney theatre which was attended by almost 400 students, musicians and local dignitaries. Support was also provided for prospective University of Brighton international students at local Partner/Feeder colleges.

2.5.7 International Student Finance and Visa issues

The international student deposits requirement was applied and reviewed and contributions were made to the discussion over the new Border & Immigration Agency’s points-based system for immigration to be introduced in 2009. Preparations for this took the form of a number of consultation meetings with University of Brighton staff likely to be involved in its implementation. As part of the ‘start of year group’ series of meetings, proposals were made in conjunction with Registry/School of Language, Literature and Communication/Accommodation colleagues to facilitate smooth progress for international students from pre-sessional/EMMA courses to their subsequent degree programmes.

2.5.8 International Student Scholarships

The International Student scholarship schemes were administered and the DfID Commonwealth scholarship award was added to the range of options available.

3 Student statistical data

3.1 Student Numbers table 1

The data used for the annual monitoring of Academic Health allows staff the opportunity to undertake controlled queries on the information, using Microsoft Excel. This dataset also includes comparable data from the previous two years, but will not be totally consistent with any data provided prior to 2004-05 for the annual Academic Year Review. Any comparisons with previous years in this report are based on the data provided by this method, and reference should not be made to versions of the Academic Year Review reports for 2003-04 and earlier.
When reading this summary analysis of the 2007-08 position, the Notes for Guidance that accompany the annual Academic Health dataset on Staffcentral should be referred to for a full explanation of definitions and data used. Where reference is made to comparable statistics from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) these come from the annual HESA Reference Volumes, for which the latest series available covers the academic year 2006-07.
2007-08 saw an overall increase in the number of students who were active* during the academic year of 3.1%. This is in contrast to a 0.5% increase in the previous year (2006-07). An analysis of the Higher Education Students Early Statistics (HESES) Returns made by the University in 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08 shows a decline in growth over the period, with an increase between 2005-06 and 2006-07 of less than 1% (0.12%) between 2005-06 and 2006-07 and a decrease in growth between 2006-07 and 2007-08 of just over -4%. These apparent differences will be in large part due to the different datasets used for internal analysis and external returns, as the note* below indicates.
Postgraduate Research students increased by 2.3% from 2006-07, a drop from the 3.5% increase experienced between 2005-06 and 2006-07, and there has been an 3.6% increase in the overall numbers of Postgraduate Taught students between the same period. Undergraduate students have shown an increase of just over 3.0% between 2006-07 and 2007-08, and make up 80.2% of the total student population in 2007-08, the same proportion as in 2006-07. This compares to 77% in the HE sector as a whole for 2006-07, according to HESA statistics (the latest data available).
Table 1 shows the number of students by faculties and schools, including all partner institutions, for the last three academic years, broken down by level (PGR, PGT, UG) and mode (FTS, PT). The information shows that the proportions of students by both level and mode have remained fairly consistent over the period.
* The dataset used for the analysis provided includes all students active in the academic year 1^st August - 31^st July as recorded on the student record system (SITS). Students at Partner Colleges and other partner institutions, as well as BSMS, are included in the overall numbers. For students who transfer between courses, only the enrolment relating to the course transferred onto will be included in the numerical count. It is important to note that this definition is not consistent with either the HESA or HESES Standard Student Populations, where students who withdraw before December 1^st are excluded from any external reporting. This data should not therefore be used for any external purposes, unless accompanied by appropriate explanations.

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