2008 Annual Report

This report is for calendar year 2008. The first point about it is that the first six months were completed under the stewardship of the outgoing Council, chaired by my predecessor, Geoff Budlender, and the Vice-Chancellorship of the now-retired Njabulo Ndebele. The new Council (more than half of the members are new), a new Council Chair and Deputy Chair and a new Vice-Chancellor, took office on 1 July 2008. As this and the following reports will show we took over a strong institution, and it is appropriate to pay tribute to the work done by Geoff Budlender and his Council members, and to Njabulo Ndebele, and his executive team of Cheryl de la Rey (now at the CHE), Martin West (who has retired having held a Chair for over 30 years), Martin Hall (who becomes Vice-Chancellor of Salford later this year) and Thandabantu Nhlapo, whom we have been able to retain as a valued member of the new executive team under our new Vice-Chancellor, Max Price.