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Fees Group Committee

Fees Group is an advisory group to University Steering Group, which meets four times per year to discuss, agree approaches for and make recommendations in the following key areas:

  1. University fee policy, bursaries and scholarships. Monitoring effectiveness against student recruitment, retention and wellbeing.
  2. Recommends specific fees and price bands for undergraduate, postgraduate taught and postgraduate research courses.
  3. Framework for bursaries and scholarship provision, based on market intelligence and the specifics of individual department strategy and need.
  4. Future funding patterns and identifies areas of reduction to support areas of success, as well as supporting scholarship provision overheads.
  5. Effectiveness of the fees and financial support available to students in supporting academic excellence.
  6. Other fees and charges levied for additional or exceptional costs connected to individual student activity which is not included within the main fees.

The Chair of Fees Group is the Deputy Vice Chancellor.
The Secretary to Fees Group is the Funding Manager.

The relationship between the various project governance committees and who they report to is explained in our committee structure chart (.pdf).

 

Paper templates

You will need to complete a Fees Group template to make recommendations to Fees Group. There are two templates available depending on your preference or paper writing.

Paper submission deadlines

Fees Group deadlines are set to ensure that there is sufficient time to review papers for addition at meetings and to ensure that they are prepared and formatted in accordance with university committee standards.

If you think there may be a delay in submitting a paper by the scheduled deadlines, please contact the committee Secretary with the expected timeframe so that it can be referred to the Chair for consideration.

2024-2025 

Fees group meeting date Time  Submission deadline
Monday, 23 September 2024  2pm – 4pm  Monday, 2 September 2024 
Tuesday, 26 November 2024 10.30am – 12.30pm Tuesday, 5 November 2024 
Thursday, 6 February 2025  9.30am – 11.30am  Thursday, 16 January 2025 
Wednesday, 4 June 2025  10.30am – 12.30pm  Wednesday, 14 May 2025 

Submitting your paper

After fully completing one of the Fees Group paper templates and ensuring that you have fully consulted with all colleagues and teams, you will need to submit your paper by sending it via email to feesandfunding@essex.ac.uk

Chair’s Action

Recommendations and papers should where possible be submitted to a Fees Group meeting. Where you have a recommendation that is time sensitive and it needs to be considered in the period between the scheduled Fees Group meetings, your paper may be considered by the Chair of Fees Group on behalf of committee members.

Chair’s Actions are considered on a case-by-case basis and by the Chair, where they are happy to support the recommendations. If you have a paper that you wish to be considered outside of a Fees Group meeting, please make this clear in the email when submitting your paper.

General Committee information

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Committee secretary

  • University of Essex
  • Wivenhoe Park
  • Colchester CO4 3SQ

 

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