At Oxford, we have not hitherto had a planning section, but I have
been responsible for a lot of the things which planning sections
tend to do (eg HESES, RAS, liaison with HEFCE over most things,
RAE, HESA, internal budget, staff and student records, corporate
plan, etc.) I am ALC5, with a staff records officer at ALC4, and
students records the same. Each of the ALC4s has a clerical
assistant. But we also do other things: eg the impact of the college
fee settlement here is a huge issue, while there are other
Oxford-specific areas of work we have to cover which would be
unrecognisable elsewhere (except Cambridge). Our current
admin structures have been reviewed by our new Registrar,
David Holmes (formerly at Birmingham), and we are being restructured
so that as from 1 April we will have a planning section so entitled,
with me at ALC5, an ALC4 plus C5 (staff records) and (probably) two
or three other ALC posts at 3 and/or 2, at least two of which are
part time. We are to be responsible for planning and resource
allocation, as understood in the real world, working closely with
our Finance Divsison. I would be very interested in the overall
results of this survey.
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