Recruitment and Admissions Committee

Find out more about Recruitment and Admissions Committee, including terms of reference, membership, meetings and minutes.

On this page you will find:

 

Overview

Reports to

University Management Committee

Chair

Professor Paola Lettieri - Vice-Provost (Strategy)

Secretary

Alex Brace | alex.brace@ucl.ac.uk

For agendas and minutes; apologies for absence

 

Meeting dates

Scheduled meeting dates: 2025-26

The copy deadlines quoted are the latest dates by which the final papers must be received by the secretary. Please use the templates for papers submission.

Meeting dateCopy deadline
Tuesday 7 October 2025, 3.00pm23 September
Tuesday 18 November 2025, 1.00pm4 November
Wednesday 17 December 2025, 1.00pm3 December
Wednesday 14 January 2026, 2.00pm19 December
Thursday 26 February 2026, 1.00pm12 February
Wednesday 18 March 2026, 1.00pm4 March
Tuesday 16 April 2026, 1.00pm27 March
Wednesday 27 May 2026, 2.00pm13 May
Monday 22 June 2026, 2.30pm8 June
Wednesday 15 July 2026, 2.30pm1 July
Wednesday 12 August 2026, 1.00pm29 July
Wednesday 16 September 2026, 1.00pm2 September

Minutes

* These Minutes include a Confidential/Reserved section which is available, through the Committee Secretary, to members of the Committee only.

2025-26

2024-25

2023-24

Terms of Reference

Subject to any direction that may from time to time be given by the University Management Committee (UMC), the Recruitment and Admissions Committee (RAC) is charged by UMC:

  1. To approve, monitor and review the University’s strategy, policy and procedure in respect of all aspects of the marketing, recruitment, and admission of undergraduate and postgraduate-taught students and the University’s outreach activities;
  2. To ensure necessary systems and processes are in place to facilitate achieving targets for approved intake, returners and tuition fee income, and to monitor such performance and ensure  that recruitment risks are identified, assessed and managed effectively in line with the University’s risk management framework and institutional risk appetite;
  3. To monitor the recruitment position through key performance indicators in the recruitment cycle and to alert UMC if the risk of under- and/or over-recruitment is identified, and to recommend mitigations in these circumstances locally at the faculty Recruitment Advisory Group (RAG) or, where there are significant institutional risks, to make recommendations to UMC;
  4. To advise on institutional risk management strategies relating to student recruitment, outreach, admissions, tuition fee income and other relevant funding, in order to provide assurance to UMC that the arrangements for the management of recruitment risks are appropriate and effective, to support UMC in developing and keeping under review the risk appetite statement relating to recruitment risks; and to escalate to UMC any significant regulatory or compliance risks with recommendations for response
  5. To provide a regular update to UMC on the in-year recruitment position, including applications received, offers made and any changes to activity that may positively or negatively impact recruitment, and the associated risks;
  6. To oversee the deployment and use of data that is available to manage and understand the recruitment position, aid recruitment activities and shape planning;
  7. To convene an annual review on the admissions exercise completed by faculty RAGs and to make recommendations to UMC. This will allow the consideration of target setting; modelling and modelling assumptions; timing of offers; the approach taken by Faculties to institutional guidance and a review of the recruitment cycle and lessons learned;
  8. To review annually the benchmarking of the University’s performance, and review horizon scanning across student marketing, recruitment, admissions and funding, comparing to key competitors and best-in-sector practice;
  9. To ensure that relevant University policies, structures and processes are student-centred and coordinated to ensure that a seamless service is provided at the institutional, faculty and departmental level;
  10. To maintain a continuous overview of the communication in relation to the University’s student marketing, outreach, recruitment, admissions and funding strategies, policy and operations at: (i) institutional, faculty and departmental levels, (ii) across the wider University community and (iii) with key stakeholders within the University’s professional services;
  11. To consider the implications of institutional/faculty student number planning processes and projections for the University’s outreach, marketing, recruitment, admissions, funding activities and onwards operational use;
  12. To monitor reportable OfS events relating to student recruitment and admissions;
  13. To establish and maintain a continuous overview of the work of sub-committees that oversee all activities relating to recruitment and admissions;
  14. To inform Operations Committee, Education Committee, Academic Committee and Academic Board on ongoing recruitment and admissions activities and risks;
  15. To oversee and set direction for institutional admissions entry requirements and approve any divergence from institutional direction;
  16. To oversee the market analysis of new programme proposals, through the programme approval process so they are advertised effectively in the prospectus;
  17. To define and review the portfolio review process, identifying programmes that are not meeting expected performance from a recruitment perspective, including monitoring new programmes, and overseeing the actions put in place, including programme closure;
  18. To oversee the deployment of undergraduate and postgraduate taught scholarships;

  19. To refer matters to UMC or other committees where they impact on the responsibility of other UMC committees or where the Chair considers the decision to be of strategic importance.

     

Membership

  • *indicates that the member is serving on the committee as a deputy or nominee of another member.

Ex Officio members

Vice-Provost (Strategy) (Chair) - Professor Paola Lettieri

Vice-President (Operations) - Aimie Chapple

Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience) - Professor Jennie Shaw

Executive Director of Recruitment and Admissions (Deputy Chair) - James Ackroyd 

Executive Director of Student & Registry Services and Registrar - Daniel Farrell (interim)

Director of Access and Admissions - Bella Malins

Head of Undergraduate and ITE Admissions - Lucy Ghost

Head of Graduate Admissions - Caroline Hayward

Director of Widening Participation and Student Funding - Katy Redfern

Director of Student Recruitment - Neil Green (interim)

Head of Student Recruitment - Peter Muncey

Head of Student Recruitment (East Asia) - Dominic Gordon 

Director of UCL Centre for Languages & International Education (CLIE) - Dr Christine Hoffmann

Director of Student Operations - Daniel Farrell

Chief of Staff, Office of the President and Provost (or nominee) - Megan Gerrie*

Executive Director of Strategic Finance - Steve Glover / Jessica Yuille

Director of Financial Planning and Analysis - Katie Sissons

Director of Finance Business Partnering (Academic) - Deepan Banati

Director of Marketing - Felicity Gasparro (interim)

Director of Data and Insight - Martin Howells

Director of Strategic Planning - Clare Foyle 

Head of Strategic Planning Partnering - Jessica Sims 

Director of Alumni and Supporter Experience - Emma Hallett 

Director of Accommodation - Joe Lay

Associate Director of Global Engagement - Conor Rickford

Chair of Systems and Data Sub-Committee - Emily Izatt

Director of the UCL Higher Education Development and Support (HEDS) Institute - Karen Barnard

Education Officer, Students’ Union - Sarah Jilani 

Nominated members

Deans’ nominees

Arts and Humanities - Professor Stella Bruzzi

Brain Sciences - Professor David Shanks

Built Environment - Liz Griffith

UCL Institute of Education - Professor Nicola Walshe

Engineering Sciences - Professor Andy Nisbet

Laws - Professor Eloise Scotford

Life Sciences - Professor Paola Pedarzani

Mathematical and Physical Sciences - Professor Ivan Parkin

Medical Sciences - Blathnaid Mahony

Population Health Sciences - Mike Rowson

Social and Historical Sciences - Katy Hamilton

Nominee of the General Counsel

To be confirmed

Secretary

Alex Brace