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CPHC2012/31

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COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING Minutes of the Committee meeting of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing held on Monday 26th November 2012 at BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London. WC2E 7HA PRESENT

Elisabeth Bacon (LB) Liz Burd (LBu) David Duce (DD)

Ray Farmer (RF) Sally Fincher (SF) Lachlan MacKinnon (LMacK

Carsten Maple (CM) Iain Phillips (Chair) (IP) Morris Sloman (UKCRC) (MS)

Ian Wells (IW)

IN ATTENDANCE (Secretariat) Maxine Leslie (BCS) Penny Ballard (BCS) GUEST PRESENTERS Bill Mitchell (BCS) Jeremy Barlow (BCS) APOLOGIES Stephen Jarvis Martin Loomes Gerry McAllister Edmund Robinson Sally Smith 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE AND WELCOME

Apologies were received as above. 2. MINUTES OF LAST MEETING

The minutes of the last meeting held on the 24th September 2012 were accepted as correct.

3. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES/ACTIONS LIST 24th

September 2012

CPHC Sub Group for InfoSec Iain Phillips (IP) and Carsten Maple (CM) have discussed the formation of a CPHC Information Security Group in response from industry groups to have a way of contacting academics in the area.

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AGREED: To create a mailing list and have a section on the web where members could place questions and information.

MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES/ACTIONS LIST Monday 9th July 2012 E4E Lachlan MacKinnon (LMacK) has spoken to Rhys Morgan, the Secretary of E4E regarding CPHC becoming full members and is at present awaiting a response. LMacK will continue to report back to Committee on E4E. IP has invited Dr Mark Ratcliffe, Discipline Lead; Computing at Higher Education Academy to come along to the next meeting. Presentation details to be advised.

4. CPHC Research Agenda – Programme of Work 4.1 Investigation of Entrepreneurship in Computing (Sally Fincher)

Sally Fincher & Liz Bacon (LB) are to hold a workshop in 2013 to produce a template to collect comparable data, then produce a report to bring back to Committee.

4.2 Attrition in Computing (Liz Bacon)

NOTED: Committee need to define what is meant by attrition, how far they want to take it and what to do with the information gathered. Attrition rates can be obtained from HESA, although this may not be significant, but as reasons will reside with the University, the analysis may depend on what could be sourced from CPHC members. Some of the factors to review could be: Reason for dropping out Socio-economic group Ethnicity University Type Age, Gender CM advised attrition is big problem now due to proportional funding issues within each institution. AGREED: To research if there is a sector wide issue for this subject with the use of the HEIDI database

ACTION: Liz Bacon/Lachlan MacKinnon 5. Consultations & Responses (C. Maple)

CM had contacted UKCRC regarding consultations and, as with CPHC, there were no active consultations. CM had contacted BCS and RAEng to discuss ICT in school curriculum. How CPHC deal with consultations should be aligned with UKCRC and this will be discussed under item 12.3. There is one consultation relating to Interacting with European Union Funding and CM will be sending

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information to members only on this as it does not require a CPHC response but will also circulate to the Committee. CM to keep in touch with UKCRC and BCS Academy ACTION: Carsten Maple

6. Formation of CPHC sub-group for INFOSEC (I Phillips) This item was covered in Item 3 7. Membership Survey Report (S Fincher Report 8.7.12)

This is on-going. The Survey to ask where CPHC is going as a membership body produced limited responses. After the presentation from Bill Mitchell, Committee has at least 6 items to follow up on. CM has number of Consultations he is working on. It was suggested that more information needs to be relayed to the membership via the Webletter. Chair suggested continuing to think about what CPHC do and bring ideas forward and he will endeavour to get Webletter out after each meeting starting after the next meeting. IP and DD to talk after the meeting.

ACTION: Chair/David Duce 8. CPHC Annual Conference 2013

NOTED: All on track, venue booked. Just need to confirm numbers and food required. Also need to confirm how much to charge each attendee and what portion is to be subsidised by CPHC. Chair advised that he had sent out a save the date email previously and he would put together an agenda and asked Committee to advise of any items they wanted included. SF suggested two items, New Academics and ACM 2013 Curriculum Review. Chair to add the suggested items to the agenda and also speak to Chris Price at Aberystwyth University regarding the New Heads workshop. ACTION: Chair Ideas for the evening event were discussed and Ian Wells put forward a couple of ideas. A bus trip to Cardiff Bay with some night life and also a traditional Welsh Banquet with a tour of Cardiff Castle prior to dinner for a small surcharge as it is within easy walking distance of the University. AGREED: IW to check the date is available with the castle and email suggestions to Committee, he would feed back to sub group when they next meet or Skype. Sub group also need to discuss conference charges, menus and holding rooms in the Mercure Hotel for attendees. Next Skype meeting is to be arranged. Chair and DD to discuss getting Conference details on the Website as soon as possible after the meeting. ACTION: Chair & David Duce

9. Terms of Reference (I Phillips)

There are some inconsistencies between the terms of office of the Education Committee and the BCS Academy of Computing Board. The Education Committee suggests length of term for Chair is 2 years and the BCS Academy Board term states 3 years. IP is in discussion with LB and Bill Mitchell to clarify and this will be discussed at the next meeting.

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10. Contract with BCS

The new BCS/CPHC Contract was distributed with the meeting papers for Committee to review before meeting and agreed by all. IP signed the Contract. CM will arrange for payment to BCS. ACTION: Carsten Maple

11. REF 2014

Call to nominate research users as assessors for the Research Excellence Framework document was circulated to Committee. UKCRC has made some nominations and this is being organised by Cliff Jones.

AGREED: CPHC happy to endorse the UKCRC nominations. CM to draft an email today to advise all members of nominations, which they can then forward to Cliff Jones. ACTION: Carsten Maple

12. REGULAR REPORTS 12.1 Treasurers Report (C Maple) RECEIVED and NOTED:

David Duce requested that the report should show any funds that have been allocated by Committee for certain purposes and are still outstanding to show actual monies available. CM advised he will add this to next report. CM advised that CPHC is in strong, healthy state and anything that could be done to further CPHC’s charitable aims would be good and requested members to put forward any ideas on taking this forward.

12.2 Secretary’s Report (Ray Farmer)

Nothing to report but RF asked Assistant Secretary DD to update on CPHC Current Trustee status. NOTED: DD advised that the Charity Commission Website and the CPHC website differ in respect of Trustee names and ask Committee to confirm that the names are correct and the same on both. AGREED: To clarify, Trustees include all elected Committee members and the immediate past Chair and as soon as the accounts are finalised this will be corrected on the report, Charity Commission and BCS websites.

12.3 Information Group Report (C Maple) RECEIVED and NOTED:

IP agreed to speak to Tom Crick on CPHC/CAS activities so far and will ask him for a report and going forward IP has suggested should appear on the agenda as a regular report. IP will write the first report for the next meeting. ACTION: Chair

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12.4 Learning Development Group RECEIVED and NOTED:

Two items on-going at the moment and one in the pipeline, the computing survey has now been validated by the expert group and it is currently being exposed to student focus groups. SF has investigated an alternative to Survey Monkey as Napier cannot use it. An alternate survey tool could be used instead. SF is currently talking with the pilot sites to obtain final information and the pilot should be ready to deploy and go live in January 2013. SF is hoping to have preliminary data to report at the 2013 Conference.

The Enterprise Entrepreneurship survey is on-going.

Exemplars for the ACM/IEEE Computing Curriculum 2013: it would be good for the UK to have representation in this endeavour and SF is hoping to run a one-day workshop to organisation production and collation of materials.

12.5 Reports from Other Organisations & Activities RECEIVED and NOTED:

Morris Sloman advised the committee that Joe Sventek has been elected as the new Chair of UKCRC as Chris Hankin has reached the end of his term of office as Chair. This will be a CDT call (Consortium for Doctoral Training in February which will cover all disciplines.

ML reported that UKCRC was in general agreement that the CPHC, UKCRC and the BCS Research Academy needs to coordinate better in identifying ways in which responses to consultations are produced. The Chairs of all three Committees are going to liaise on ways that this will be carried out. IW reported to Committee that Glamorgan and Newport Universities have merged. Cardiff Metropolitan University may merge sometime next year. E4E – LMacK reported that Bill Mitchell is involved with the Royal Academy of Engineering on creating the Curriculum for Computing and the responses to EBacc and STEM teaching. This is actively supported by Engineering Council.

12.6 Chair’s Report (CPHC Webletter) (I Phillips) RECEIVED and NOTED:

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13. AOB 13.1 Higher Education Ambassador Scheme

CM has circulated this document to show work that is going on and to stimulate ideas for discussion that CPHC might like to support. CM stated that this was not a proposal just something that CPHC might to be aware of. MirandaNet Conference CM was asked by a member of the Oracle Academy to highlight the Academy and send out some information to CPHC members, CM advised that he would take to CPHC Committee. AGREED: CM to circulate the information through the CHPC Conf mailing list. ACTION: Carsten Maple

13.2 CPHC – Current Trustees This item was discussed in item 12.2 Secretary’s Report

13.3 Digital Policy Alliance Renewal (EURIM)

AGREED: This subscription is to be renewed for another year but to try and find ways to engage the CPHC membership with the organisation and attend Digital Policy Alliance meetings. LMacK to respond and CM to arrange payment.

ACTION: Carsten Maple Research proposal to CPHC Committee - CPHC/2012/24

CM put the document ‘A pilot study on Gender and Computing at A-Level and Undergraduate Level’ forward as a proposal for the Committee to consider supporting. AGREED: After discussion it was agreed that the Committee will not be supporting this project.

Chair thanked CM for the proposal and informed the Committee that if they did have any important and/or interesting projects that they would like the Committee to consider they should email suggestions to him. TO NOTE: Chair reminded the Committee of the change of dates for the last two meetings in 2013 so as not to clash with first dates of term.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS 2013

Monday 4th February 2013 at 11.00am, BCS Offices, London

Monday 13th May 2013 at 11.00am, BCS Offices, London

Monday 8th July 2013 at 11.00am, BCS Offices, London

Monday 7th October 2013 at 11.00am, BCS Offices, London

Monday 9th December 2013 at 11.00am. BCS Offices, London

CONFIDENTIAL CPHC/2013/01 COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING The meeting of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing will be held on Monday 4th February 2013 at 11am at BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. 11.00 – 12.30 Presentation – Mark Ratcliffe – HEA 12.30 – 13.15 Lunch 13.15 CPHC Meeting Commences AGENDA 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE 2. MINUTES OF LAST MEETING CPHC2012/31 3. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES Items for discussion 4. CPHC Research Agenda – Programme of Work 4.1 Investigation of Entrepreneurship in Computing (Sally Fincher) 4.2 Attrition in Computing (Liz Bacon) 5. Consultations & Responses (C Maple) 6. Conference 2013 (Conference Working Group) 7. CPHC Subscriptions (P Ballard) Verbal 8. 2014 Meeting Dates – To Be Set 9. Application to Join CPHC Membership – University of Chester CPHC2013/02 Items for report 10. REGULAR REPORTS

10.1 Treasurer’s Report - [C Maple] CPHC/2013/03 10.2 Secretary’s Report - [R Farmer] Verbal 10.3 Information Group Report - [C Maple] CPHC/2013/04 10.4 Learning Development Group Report - [S Fincher] Verbal 10.5 CPHC/CAS Report - [I Phillips] Verbal 10.6 Reports from Other Organisations & Activities CPHC/2013/05

10.7 Chair’s Report (CPHC Webletter) - [I Phillips] Verbal

11. AOB





Monday 9th December 2013 at 11.00am, BCS Offices, London

Many Thanks, Penny.

I should have added that I am a very active member of the BCS and sit on both the

Membership Board and the Best Practice Committee at a National level, and am chair of the

Chester and North Wales Branch at a local level. I also participate strongly in the Computer

At School initiative.

If you could this information to my application, I would be grateful.

Best wishes for a peaceful and relaxing Christmas!

Garfield

On 13 Dec 2012, at 12:00, "Ballard, Penny" <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Garfield, Thank you for your email requesting your department become a member of The Council of Professors & Heads of Computing. As per the procedures your request has to be discussed at the next available Executive Committee meeting which is due to be held on Monday 4th February 2013. I have added your request as an Agenda item that will be sent to the chair of the committee, Dr Iain Phillips in due course for his approval. After the committee meeting I will inform you of the outcome of their discussion. Can I advise that it is the whole department that will be a member and there are no costs to individuals but there is a cost to the department which is detailed below and invoices are sent out on an annual basis. This information can also be obtained on the CPHC website, which I attach a link for your reference.

Subscription Terms Currently the annual subscription fee which is charged to member institutions is based on £12 per academic computing staff member, with a minimum of 10 staff members (A minimum fee of £120 even when there are less than 10 members of staff) and a maximum of 60 staff members (A maximum fee of £720 even when there are over 60 members of staff). This fee is subject to review by the CPHC Executive Committee. http://www.cphc.ac.uk/index.php

Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me. Many thanks

Penny Penny Ballard

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.cphc.ac.uk/index.php

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From: Garfield Southall [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: 13 December 2012 08:32

To: [email protected] Subject: Wish to join CPHC

Hello,

I have recently become Head of School of Computer Science, Maths & Business Computing

at the University of Chester, and was surprised to see our department of Computer Science

not listed on your website.

So, may I join as a member? And is there a separate method for Departments to be added to

your list?

Best Wishes,

Garfield

Garfield J. Southall MSc FBCS CITP PRINCE2

Head of School of Computer Science, Mathematics and Business Computing (Incorporating NTI & Informatics Centre) Associate Dean, Faculty of Applied Science

University of Chester

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Chester

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CPHC/2013/03

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Treasurer Report Balance of account The net assets figure currently stands at £129,210. However, expenditure to date is quite low compared with last year. Outstanding Income/Commitments The Attrition in Computing Research Project led by Liz Bacon has made a commitment to produce the International forum for heads of informatics and computing website for £1000. Quarterly BCS/CPHC Contract - £6388.26 to be paid. Of the £41,428.20 due from subscriptions for 2012-13 £33,148.20 had been received leaving £8,280 outstanding. CPHC have committed to raising £10K to support the CAS Initiative and its relationship to HE. It is anticipated that the conference registration fee will cover costs for members. Minimal budget may be required for the invited speaker’s dinner and expenses. Carsten Maple Treasurer

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Information Group Report Consultations The Chair of the Information Group has been using the new system for consultations whereby:

1. Consultations are sent to the Committee with a 5 day deadline for their view on whether we should send a response and asking for any volunteers willing to produce a first draft on behalf of the Committee.

2. Depending on the size of the draft and timescales a deadline will be set for the first draft.

3. The original call for consultation and the first draft response will then be sent to the wider CPHC members for comments with a deadline for responses.

4. A second draft will then be sent as a response to the original call and sent to members and/or

placed on the website. In some cases where deadlines were tight it was not possible to give 5 days for responses but where possible this would be adhered to. The Chair had recently sent consultations to the Committee for comment on:

Consultation Deadline for response

National Occupational Standards for Information Security 31/01/13

Open Access 07/02/13

Improving access to electronic communications services for disabled people 22/02/13

Public Consultation on the protection of business and research know-how 08/03/13

Carsten Maple Chair of Information Group

CPHC/2013/03 Agenda item 10.6

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REPORTS FROM OTHER ORGANISATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Name Report area Anything to report? Iain Phillips – Chair

Digital Policy Alliance (EURIM) Nothing To Report

Sally Smith – Vice Chair Scottish Heads of Computing (SH0C)

Appendix 1

Martin Loomes

CPHC rep on UKCRC BCS Academy of Computing Research Committee

Nothing To Report

Liz Bacon

PICTFOR Policy and Public Affairs Board Academy Update

Nothing To Report Appendix 2 Appendix 2

Simon Thompson – not on Committee

Distinguished Dissertations Appendix 3

Gerry McAllister BCS Academy of Computing Education Committee

Nothing To Report

Lachlan MacKinnon E4E Computing At School

Nothing To Report

Ian Wells Welsh Section of CPHC

Nothing to Report

Jim Yip – not on Committee Engineering Professors Council Nothing to Report

Appendix 1

Scottish Report to CPHC Committee 4 February 2013 Scottish Funding Council – recent awards

The SFC has identified additional funded places on STEM courses and additional funded taught postgraduate places (with an emphasis on considerable industrial input to curriculum design and development) to start 2013/2014. Their new strategic plan sets out 8 outcomes the seek to achieve between 2012-2015:

Outcome 1: efficient and effective regional college structures

Outcome 2: access for people from the widest possible range of backgrounds

Outcome 3: the right learning in the right place

Outcome 4: high quality, efficient and effective learning

Outcome 5: a developed workforce

Outcome 6: sustainable colleges and universities

Outcome 7: a research base that is internationally competitive and improving its reputation and standing in the world

Outcome 8: university/industry collaboration and the exploitation of research

The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance

SICSA our collaboration of Scottish Universities around Informatics and Computer Science research and education has received further Scottish Funding Council funding to deliver PhD student internships, early career fellowships, distinguished industrial visitor fellowships, proof of concept projects and applied research acceleration start-ups.

http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/

Representatives of all Scottish Universities offering computing courses met recently to plan the year’s joint activities. Events include an outreach to businesses event and workshops looking at teaching challenges faced across computing departments. Sally Smith 25 January 2013 Appendix 2 Policy and Public Affairs Board PPAB has a new chair, Rebecca George OBE from Deloitte. Focus is on forming BCS policy on various issues, which includes development of communities of expertise who can provide input to policies, training for BCS boards on unconscious bias, and supporting a number of groups involved in various activities and policy formation such as the internet of things and cloud computing. Academy Update The next Academy meeting is March 15th. Activities are still primarily focussed around the Schools agenda and getting the Network of Excellence up and running to help facilitate School teachers in teaching computer science. The new website is now up and running but the challenge is to find the resource to provide useful services to the other communities of the Academy. Liz Bacon 20 January 2013 Appendix 3 Distinguished Dissertations 2013 competition announced and open for submissions. Web pages at BCS are up to date: http://www.bcs.org/category/5820

http://academy.bcs.org/content/distinguished-dissertations

Simon Thompson 15 January 2013

http://www.bcs.org/category/5820

http://academy.bcs.org/content/distinguished-dissertations

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CPHC2013/06


COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING Minutes of the Committee meeting of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing held on Monday 4th February 2013 at BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London. WC2E 7HA PRESENT:

Iain Phillips (Chair) (IP) Liz Bacon (LB) Liz Burd (LBu)

David Duce (DD) Sally Fincher (SF) Martin Loomes (ML)

Lachlan MacKinnon (LMacK) Carsten Maple (CM) Gerry McAllister (GMc)

Edmund Robinson (ER) Morris Sloman (UKCRC) (MS) Sally Smith (SS)

Ian Wells (IW) Guest Speaker – Mark Ratcliffe HEA APOLOGIES

Stephen Jarvis Ray Farmer

IN ATTENDANCE (Secretariat)

Sharon Hurd (BCS) (SH)

APOLOGIES 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE AND WELCOME


The minutes of the last meeting held on the 26th November 2012 Minutes were accepted as correct

3. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES/ACTIONS LIST 26th November 2012 Actions from Committee Meeting Monday 6th February 2012

LMacK - Circulated information to committee. TRAC will change but CPHC cannot influence, going forward it was suggested to monitor website. This could be an item under Consultations and Responses.

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4. CPHC Research Agenda – Programme of Work 4.1 Investigation of Entrepreneurship in Computing (Sally Fincher)

Sally Fincher & Liz Burd (LBu) are to hold a workshop in 2013 to produce a template to collect comparable data and then produce a report to bring back to Committee.

4.2 Attrition on Computing (Liz Bacon)

An initial circulation of HESA data was shared at the meeting it was AGREED that more analysis was needed on attrition rates; this would be looked at following the release of the HEA report that is due out later this week. CM mentioned there are sufficient funds to get some research carried out on attrition should the committee feel it necessary. AGREED: To research if there is a sector wide issue for this subject with the use of the HEIDI database.

ACTION: Liz Bacon/Lachlan MacKinnon 5. CONSULTATIONS & RESPONSES (C. Maple)

CM had contacted UKCRC regarding consultations and, as with CPHC, there were not many active consultations. CM had also contacted BCS and the IET to ascertain any pertinent consultations they were dealing with. A process for how CPHC should deal with consultations has been produced and is aligned with UKCRC. There is one consultation relating to European Union Funding (see the Information Group report for details) and CM will be sending information to the Committee straight after the meeting. CM will continue to keep in touch with UKCRC and BCS Academy

6. Conference 2013 (Conference working Group

NOTED: All on track, dinner has been booked for the Millennium Stadium; there is a deadline for dinner numbers: however a minimum of 80 covers will have to be paid for. AGREED: that IP will circulate the speakers that have been booked along with the draft agenda for the two days. e-Skills UK are being asked if they would like to attend the conference. Members of CPHC committee were meeting with e-Skills following the CPHC meeting. ACTION: Chair AGREED: SS and ML would jointly manage the New Heads Workshop at the Conference. Chris Price and Keith Mander would pass over their material to Sally and Martin to use at the Conference. AGREED: LMacK would deliver Mark Radcliffe’s presentation from the meeting of 4th February at the Conference. ACTION: Lachlan MacKinnon

7. CPHC Subscriptions 2013

NOTED that 85 HEI’s have paid subs out of the 104 due, it was also mentioned that the new HoD at Cranfield University does not want to continue with the CPHC subscription, we are trying to find out the reason why. ACTION: Secretariat

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8. 2014 Meeting Dates

NOTED secretariat is aware of the formula used to set the meetings and the same formula was to be used and the following dates circulated. 3rd February 2014 12th May 2014 7th July 2014 6th October 2014 8th December 2014 CPHC 2014 Annual Conference – this date to be confirmed ACTION: Secretariat

9. CPHC Membership of – University of Chester

An application was received from University of Chester to join CPHC. This was approved by the committee. The University will need to be contacted to join as a member. ACTION: Secretariat

10. REGULAR REPORTS 10.1 Treasurers Report (C. Maple) RECEIVED and NOTED: 10.2 Secretary’s Report (R. Farmer) NOTHING TO REPORT: 10.3 Information Group Report (C. Maple)

RECEIVED and NOTED:

10.4 Learning Development Group Report (S Fincher) 1. LDG Chair met with Mark Ratcliffe (HEA STEM representative) on 8th January. There was wide-ranging discussion on the activities of both groups, and places where we might fruitfully collaborate. Specific issues included: a) HEA is organising a "new" workshop - initially for new academics, but now extended to "new ideas in teaching" on the 14th & 15th March in Manchester. Whilst it is too late for CPHC/LDG to participate this time, there may be scope for working together on such an event in future years - perhaps HEA providing input on teaching, UKCRC on starting your CS research career, and CPHC providing "being an effective academic" input - somewhat akin to the "new chair's" workshop that we do for colleagues at a later stage in their careers. b) HEA may be interested in running a "Disciplinary Commons" for computing academics. c) There was some interest in collating a UK-specific set of course exemplars that illustrate the IEEE/ACM 2013 Computer Science curriculum - perhaps through a workshop or series of workshops. LDG could certainly act as an archival resource here. d) There was some interest in HEA supporting an event (or series of events) on Computing Education Research. e) Mark was interested to keep a "watching brief" on SCSE. We will continue discussions.

2. Survey of Computing Student Engagement (SCSE) The pilot is now live. We are hopeful that we will get participation from all 10 pilot institutions, although this will likely be with first and second years, rather than first and

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final years as we had hoped (no one wants to interfere with/jeopardise their NSS response with their final year students). This will officially close on 5th April, but we expect to have some interim results to report at conference.

3. Survey of Enterprise & Entrepreneurship in the Computing Curriculum Following from the email survey, Liz Burd has undertaken a search of every institution’s website and identified interesting/innovative courses. We will hold a one-day workshop on 1st March to collect further examples and, after that, produce a report (loosely based on "UK Approaches to Engineering Project-Based Learning”. See: http://web.mit.edu/gordonelp/ukpjblwhitepaper2010.pdf

10.5 Reports from Other Organisations & Activities RECEIVED and NOTED: 10.6 CPHC/CAS Report – (I Phillips)

IWP presented a verbal report indicating that the work with CAS is on-going and that the HE engagement so far has been covered by other sources of funding. The CPHC and its members' monies will be strategically targeted as

necessary over the next year.

10.7 Chair’s Report (CPHC WEBLETTER) (I. Phillips) IWP noted that the Webletter hasn't been produced, but he will endeavour to get one produced as soon as possible, but this would not be until after the AGM.

11. AOB 11.1 STEM – Summit to be reported back on at a later date.

11.2 AGM – Listed below are members of the Committee who have agreed to stand as Committee Members for a further term of three years:

Ian Wells Sally Fincher Martin Loomes Carsten Maple This will be voted upon at the AGM on the morning or 25th March 2013 The following members will be resigning from the Committee: Gerry McAllister Liz Bacon Ray Farmer. Committee Members were also asked to have a think of suitable candidates

to nominate as possible members. ACTION: All



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CONFIDENTIAL CPHC/2013/07 COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING The meeting of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing will be held on Monday 13th May 2013 at 11am at BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT, Davidson Building, 5, Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. 11am – 12.30 Improving Effectiveness of the CPHC Led by Dr Andy Wilson – Loughborough University (Retired) 13.15 – Meeting Commences AGENDA 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE 2. MINUTES OF LAST MEETING CPHC/2013/06 3. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES Items for discussion 4. COMMITTEE POSITIONS for 2013 5. CPHC RESEARCH AGENDA – PROGRAMME of WORK VERBAL 5.1 Investigation of Entrepreneurship in Computing (Sally Fincher) 5.2 Attrition in Computing (Liz Bacon) 6. STUDENT STATISTICAL INFORMATION in STEM/SIVS (E Robinson) CPHC/2013/08 7. CONSULTATIONS & RESPONSES (C Maple) VERBAL 8. CONFERENCE 2013 (I Phillips) 9. CPHC SUBSCRIPTIONS CPHC/2013/09 Items for report 10. REGULAR REPORTS 10.1 Treasurer’s Report - [C Maple] CPHC/2013/10 10.2 Secretary’s Report - [D Duce] CPHC/2013/11

10.3 Information Group Report - [C Maple] VERBAL 10.4 Learning Development Group Report - [S Fincher] VERBAL 10.5 Reports from Other Organisations & Activities CPHC/2013/12 10.6 Chair’s Report (CPHC Webletter) - [I Phillips] VERBAL

11. AOB 11.1 Report on Pictfor Breakfast Event CPHC/2013/13




Monday 9th December 2013 at 11.00am, BCS Offices, London COMMITTEE MEETINGS 2014

Monday 3rd February 2014 at 11.00am, BCS Offices, London





CPHC/2013/08

Report on the HEFCE STEM/SIVS meeting: Royal Academy of Engineering 16.iv.13 Convened by Matthew Harrison (Director of Engineering and Education RAEng). Attending: reps from HEFCE, Royal Society, various Engineering Council and representative bodies (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, LMS and IMA for Maths). Key Points: We in CS are not alone: before the meeting I sent the CPHC report on Unemployment to Matthew Harrison and he commented that the picture it painted was astonishingly similar to that in Engineering. In particular there is a sectoral split picked up by the divide into pre and post 92, but with notable exceptions on each side of the divide. There is a problem of gender imbalance, and large ethnic cohort, with many of the same issues that concern us. The importance of this is that if we speak to government and other stakeholders to say "this is the position in Engineering and Computer Science" that is a much stronger message than if we tell our tales individually. Almost everyone picked up on the issues of (lack) of longitudinal or cohort studies, and HEFCE has started to address this. I commend the recent work on retention, which shows generally just under 85% continuation rate for first to second year for CS: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/wp/currentworktowidenparticipation/studentretentionandsuccess/ncr/ds/ This is apparently based on tracking individual students. In the absence of standard unique identifiers, HEFCE have also started to use dirty tracking methods based on using such data as name and date of birth to identify students across datasets (yes, they know this will introduce errors, but they are looking at broad picture statistics). HEFCE is currently running an exercise to trace PhD students 7-8 years after graduation. HEFCE are also starting to combine datasets to give a bigger picture, notably UCAS and the National Pupil Database. They report that the DfE is still concerned about data protection but easier about giving access to the NPD for specific projects than it was 12 months ago. There is a recognition that it is harder to track people after they have left the system, and a thought that the holy grail would be to mine tax data for tracking purposes. A key issue was how to measure demand for particular skill-sets (and to predict it over the long term). HEFCE is also concerned about how to present data, and RAEng reported that map-based presentations using old LEA boundaries as regions seemed effective (roughly the right granularity). They have software to do this (yes it's based on an excel spread-sheet listing postcodes).

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/wp/currentworktowidenparticipation/studentretentionandsuccess/ncr/ds/

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/wp/currentworktowidenparticipation/studentretentionandsuccess/ncr/ds/

In terms of the funding picture HEFCE gave roughly the same picture they gave the CPHC conference (no change during the lifetime of this government, no commitments thereafter, but couched in terms of spending review periods which more or less coincide). They do not have much in the way of funds, but are prepared to use them to support key subjects. There is no longer a list of SIVS subjects, but there is a risk-based analysis covering the whole of the academic spectrum. Attitude to the market driven system fell somewhere between what we were told at conference (it's there, it's policy, live with it), and what I have been told privately (concern that the market-drive approach will lead to radical and unwelcome changes in the pattern of provision, including decline of less popular/more expensive areas which are critical for the national wellbeing). The line taken here was that the overall market approach was a given, but that there were areas where it did not function properly. The amount of resource available to do analysis is variable. At HEFCE it is substantial but largely committed to standard statistics. The Royal Society runs things as projects (and can do them as it wants), institutions largely reported capacity for approximately 1-2 reports a year (possibly bought in), but nobody dedicated. So CPHC is much in line with that. Maths reported that they had no resource to do anything. Actions: Attendees are asked to report back and let the group know which data sources we are currently using. There is a proposal that during the final stages of preparing a report, any group member will give a seminar to the rest of the group explaining the approach and conclusions. Odd bits of information: Maths reported data suggesting that the UK should have about 300k students doing some mathematics in post-16 education, and that it now has 125k. Institute of Chemistry reported a long-standing push to get science teachers into schools down to primary level. Institute of Physics was concerned that few employers had any idea of the skill-set of a competent physicist, and what it could offer them. Royal Society seemed very concerned about whether the UK would produce enough leading academics. Edmund Robinson

17th April 2013

CPHC/2013/09

Outstanding CPHC Subscriptions @ April 2013

Glyndwr University 10.6 £127.20

Kingston University 42 £504.00

London City University 26.6 £319.20

Sheffield Hallam University >60 £720.00

University of Bolton 26 £312.00

University of Chester 12.7 £152.40

University of Derby 21 £252.00

University of Durham 15.7 £188.40

University of Glamorgan >60 £720.00

University of Greenwich >60 £720.00

University of Nottingham 33 £396.00

University of Surrey 21 £252.00

Total Outstanding £4,663.20

Total Received £36,917.40

Totals £41,580.60

CPHC/2013/10




26 April 2013 Treasurer’s Report Balance of account The net assets figure currently stands at £116,524.00. However, expenditure to date is currently lower than last year’s figure due to the fact that it only represents part of the year. Outstanding Income/Commitments Of the £41,134.20 due from subscriptions for 2012-13, £36,471.00 has been received leaving £4,663.20 outstanding. CPHC have committed to raising £10,000 to support the CAS initiative and its relationship to HE, of which £3,750 has currently been raised. The final figures for the conference are yet to be received but it is anticipated that the conference will break even. Carsten Maple Treasurer

Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (Registered Charity number 803000)

Income and Expenditure

Year to 30th June 2013

2012/13 2011/12

£ £

Income

From charitable trading:

-Subscriptions (this years) 41,581 42,385

-Conference 0 2,995

-CAS Initiative 3,750 0

45,331 45,380

From assets:

Investment income:

Bank interest 61 89

61 89

Total Income 45,392 45,468

Expenditure

Charitable activity direct expenditure:

-Travel expenses and cost of meetings 3,640 4,495

-Learning Development Group meetings 848 852

-Subscriptions to other bodies 2,580 2,814

7,067 8,160

Other expenditure:

-Administrative costs 11,723 20,694

-Independent examiner's fee 990 0

-Other meetings 410 229

-Conference 6,373 3,921

-Miscellaneous 198 12

-Computing At Schools Funding 1,000 0

-Consulting -49 10,000

20,644 34,855

Total Expenditure 27,712 43,016

Net Surplus/(Deficit) 17,680 2,453

CPHC/2013/10.1


Balance Sheet

As at 30th June 2013

2012/13 2011/12

£ £

Current Assets

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC 124,738 113,697

Subscriptions due 2,314 5,302

Conference due 0 0

Miscellaneous Income 1,201 1,201

Creditors -11,728 -17,455

Net Assets 116,524 102,744

Funds

Unrestricted Funds 121,188 102,744

Total Funds 121,188 102,744

CONFIDENTIAL CPHC2013/11 COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING Secretary’s Report to 13 May 2013 meeting

David Duce, 26 April 2013

STATUS: The paper is labelled draft – the secretary would like members to check their status, current and historical, in the table at the end of this paper. Please inform him of any errors. A definitive version will be issued after any necessary corrections have been made. The secretary hopes he has correctly recorded the results of the elections at the 2013 AGM. Annual Returns The annual return has been made to the Charity Commission for England and Wales. See http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=803000&SubsidiaryNumber=0 The web site shows that the following trustees are registered: PROF LACHLAN MACKINNON MR RAY FARMER PROFESSOR MARTIN LOOMES PROFESSOR CARSTEN MAPLE DR IAIN PHILLIPS MRS SALLY SMITH PROF IAN WELLS DR STEPHEN JARVIS PROFESSOR DAVID DUCE PROFESSOR EDMUND ROBINSON PROFESSOR SALLY FINCHER PROFESSOR RUPERT WARD DR GERRY MCALLISTER PROFESSOR LIZ BURD

I am informed that the annual accounts have been submitted though at the time of writing this was not showing on the web site. The accounts for 2012 were signed at the 2013 CPHC conference in Cardiff. Penny Ballard has confirmed that the return and accounts have been submitted. At the time of writing the web site of the Scottish Charity Register shows the annual return for 2012 overdue. https://www.oscr.org.uk/search-charity-register/charity-extract/?charitynumber=sc041548 This is being investigated; the secretary knows that his predecessor had paperwork for this at the conference in April and that the accounts were signed at the 2013 CPHC conference in Cardiff.

http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=803000&SubsidiaryNumber=0



https://www.oscr.org.uk/search-charity-register/charity-extract/?charitynumber=sc041548

Membership The constitution states: (Article 5) The Committee shall consist of the Officers, the immediate past Chair and eight elected members who shall be members of the Council. In addition, the Committee may co-opt up to three persons, who need not be members of the Council. (Article 6) The Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary shall serve for a period of up to two years from election to office and shall not be eligible for immediate re-election to the same office. The Treasurer and other elected members shall serve for a period of up to two years and shall be eligible for re-election. The immediate past Chair shall be a member of the Committee and on completion of this role is not eligible to serve on the Committee in any capacity for a period of two years. Casual vacancies shall be filled by co-option. No person shall serve as an Officer or an elected member for more than seven years consecutively, except as Chair or Immediate Past Chair, in which case they may serve on the committee for a further period to complete the terms of office. Co-opted members are appointed only up to the end of the next Annual General Meeting. Membership of the Committee following the 2013 AGM is:

Present service Previous

Chair Iain Phillips 2012-2014 2009-2011 (member) 2010-2012 (vice chair)

Vice Chair Sally Smith 2012-2014 2011-2012 (member)

Treasurer Carsten Maple

2013-2015 2009-2011 (member) 2011-2013 (treasurer)

Secretary David Duce 2013-2015 2012-2013 (member)

Immediate past chair

Lachlan Mackinnon

2012-2014 2010-2012 (chair)

Other members

Martin Loomes

2013-2014 ( 2013 AGM notice said Martin eligible for re-election for 1 year, reaches 7 year limit in 2013)

2007-2009, 2009-2011, 2011-2013,

Ian Wells 2013-2015 2011-2013

Stephen Jarvis

2012-2014

Edmund Robinson

2012-2014

Sally Fincher 2013-2015 2011-2013

Rupert Ward 2013-2015

Colin Johnson 2013-2015

Vic Grout 2013-2015



th May 2013



Digital Policy Alliance (EURIM) Nothing To Report

Sally Smith – Vice Chair Scottish Heads of Computing (SH0C) Nothing To Report

Martin Loomes CPHC rep on UKCRC BCS Academy of Computing Research Committee

Nothing To Report Nothing To Report

Liz Bacon

PICTFOR Policy and Public Affairs Board Academy Update

Nothing To Report Liz had to resign from this Committee due to workload so CPHC no longer have any representation.

As had been circulated to the CPHC Committee, the DfE have awarded a £2m grant over two years to the CAS Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science, which creates long term partnerships between schools and universities.


Distinguished Dissertations Appendix 1

Gerry McAllister BCS Academy of Computing Education Committee

Nothing To Report

Lachlan MacKinnon E4E Computing At School BCS Academy of Computing – Education Committee

Nothing To Report Nothing To Report Nothing To Report

Ian Wells Welsh Section of CPHC

Nothing To Report

Jim Yip – not on Committee

Engineering Professors Council

Appendix 2

Appendix 1 .

The committee have received 20 submissions for this year’s competition, which closed on 1 April, and the committee is currently in the process of identifying suitable reviewers for the submissions. Simon Thompson 15th April 2013

Appendix 2 1) EPC has its Annual Congress on 16-17 April 2013 at Portsmouth University. 2) Professor Simon Hodgson of Teesside University is the new President for two years 2013-2015. Professor Helen Atkinson of Leicester

University will support Simon as Past President for 2013-2014. 3) The key theme of the 2013 Congress is university-business partnership. 4) Next year 2014 congress will be in Glasgow University. 5) EPC has provided a number of reports to the government and made a number of representations, e.g. UKBA and visa issues. 6) EPC has put efforts into datasets and analysis. It is a one stop shop for engineering related issues. There are 11 topics. They can be

found at: www.epc.ac.uk Members Area. Password can be obtained from EPC university members. All suggestions are welcome. 7) In our sectorial chair group meetings, where representatives from 7 different “professors and heads” (PH) of engineering subjects meet,

we agreed to share more information on events. At the moment, EPC has a web link to CPHC. As part of web site improvement EPC is considering having a more integrated web page containing event details from all seven engineering PH organisations. CPHC suggestions are welcome.

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CPHC/2013/13

Report on PICTFOR breakfast event (Tuesday 23rd April, 2013):

Cyber-secure: government, businesses & consumers

Delegate: Pasquale Malacaria (QMUL)

The event focused on cyber threats facing UK, how these threats are assessed, mitigated

and technological solutions for such threats.

Most panelists and audience members were particularly keen on cyber threats in relation to

SMEs (small and medium enterprises). In particular the difficult position they are in given

that most SMEs do not have specialized cyber-security employees with many having just a

one member generic IT team.

Cath Goulding from Nominet UK clearly presented the business point of view. Businesses

main concern is availability of service, as it is part of their core mission; she found a deep

lack of preparation in business for cyber-attacks e.g. complete absence of contingency plans

in case of attacks. Another big business concern is reputation and trust, both of which can

be affected by cyber-attacks. She noticed, as others both in the panel and in the audience,

how most cyber-attacks can be mitigated by basic security hygiene e.g. having latest anti-

virus installed, having an effective firewall etc. Finally she noticed the worrying increase in

targeted attacks which are the hardest to mitigate because lack of off-the-shelf protection.

Andrew Little from GetSafeOnline said that cyber security is a government priority, and

education about cyber threats is seen as important for effective mitigation. Most major UK

institutions have by now been attacked and this may be a positive thing because has raised

awareness about the importance of the problem.

Audience was broadly in agreement with the panellists. There seemed to be more interest in

technology e.g. tools with user friendly GUIs indicating cyber risks of a machine or a network

more than in academic education in security. This is consistent with the theme of the

meeting where a certain urgency in improving current cyber security of SMEs was prioritized

to more fundamental understanding and mitigation of cyber security threats. Larger business

and government organizations take a longer term view of the problem.

Edmund Robinson

CPHC – CAS relationship

Report to CPHC committee 8 th July 2013 Iain Phillips We have committed £20k from our membership and committee funds. Simon Humphreys is working on the plan to spend it. This plan has been complicated by the government investment in the CAS programme. However, there should be some movement soon.

CAS would like to have a representative from each Computer Science Department in the Country.

Below is the current list of expected duties for this position. As this is a somewhat long (and probably not exhaustive list) it will be a matter for HoDs to allocate staff time to this role.

CPHC will help facilitate this. However, we need to find the correct way to do this.

Note that the original call for funds was based on http://www.cphc.ac.uk/cas.php and that we should update this sometime too.

working alongside Regional Coordinator, Master Teachers, Lead Schools, CAS hub et al to help coordinate CPD offerings in the area and be willing to see opportunities that they are best placed to provide esp for subject knowledge

be willing to be contacted by teachers via email/phone as a rudimentary 'help line' if teacher have ad hoc questions re subject knowledge

be willing to speak, or find others to speak, at local hub meetings offer university facilities to host hub meetings or CPD sessions use university mailing list of local schools promote hub meetings and master teacher or lead school sessions to local

schools introduce schools they are in contact with to CAS and NoE and encourage

participation offer speakers from their departments to local schools for lunch-time

sessions for pupils offer students (under- or post-graduate) to work with pupils and schools

e.g. after school clubs activities, classroom support for GCSE/A Level classes

provide CPD (CS subject knowledge specifically) either as whole day, weekend, evening classes

work with local master teachers to collaborate on either/both of master teacher CPD and university led CPD

provide peer review service of master teacher and lead school CPD

http://www.cphc.ac.uk/cas.php

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CPHC2013/14


COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING Minutes of the Committee meeting of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing held on Monday 13th May 2013 at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London. WC2E 7HA PRESENT Iain Phillips – Chair IP Liz Bacon LB David Duce DD Sally Fincher SF Lachlan MacKinnon LM Vic Grout VG Colin Johnson CJ Martin Loomes ML Gerry McAllister GMc Edmund Robinson ER Tom Rodden(UKCRC) TR Sally Smith SS Rupert Ward RW IN ATTENDANCE (Secretariat) Maxine Leslie (BCS) Penny Ballard (BCS) APOLOGIES Ian Wells Carsten Maple Stephen Jarvis The Chair welcomed Gerry McAllister to the meeting as an outgoing member of the Committee, both Ray Farmer and Liz Burd also outgoing members, had been invited but were unable to attend. 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE AND WELCOME


The minutes of the last meeting held on the Monday 4th February 2013 were accepted.

3. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES/ACTIONS LIST 13th May 2013 Actions from Committee meeting – Monday 9th July 2012

6.0 Churn statistics sent to LM and he has requested further historical data relating to the previous 3 years (2009/10/11) so as to extend the research. ACTION: Secretariat

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4. COMMITTEE POSITIONS FOR 2013 Assistant Secretary (vacated by David Duce on becoming secretary)

Web Administrator (vacated by David Duce on becoming secretary, the role does not have to be undertaken by the same person as the assistant secretary)

LDG Chair (currently Sally Fincher's term is at the end of a 2-year appointment, she is eligible to stand again)

Any Committee member interested in taking up these posts please email IP before the end of Monday 21st May. At this stage, your name is sufficient. If there is only a single applicant for a post, the appointment will be made immediately. If there is more than one applicant, then we will need to discuss at the next committee, supported by brief manifestos. IP to contact Stephen Jarvis to ascertain if he will be continuing as the role of Assistant Treasurer as, due to a heavy workload, he has been unable to attend meetings.

ACTION: Chair

5. CHPC RESEARCH AGENDA – PROGRAMME OF WORK 5.1 Investigation of Entrepreneurship in Computing

Successful workshop was completed and there are materials available, but the comparable data report was not completed due to the author’s resignation from the Committee. The results of the workshop will be put on the CPHC website. SS volunteered to discuss further with SF to assist with further studies. ACTION: Sally Smith

5.2 Attrition in Computing

Attrition report circulated to Committee which was taken from HEIDI database, information worrying as Computer Science statistics are higher than any other subject. Further investigation will continue to look for reasons why and to ascertain factors. AGREED: To employ a researcher that will undertake further investigation into the attrition rates compared with other subjects. LM to write a paragraph and circulate to committee and RW will source and advise name of person who may be able to carry out this research.

ACTION: Rupert Ward/Lachlan MacKinnon

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6. STUDENT STATISTICAL INFORMATION IN STEM/SIVS REPORT RECEIVED AND NOTED: ER had attended the meeting and produced the report. He advised that another meeting may be arranged if found necessary. AGREED: To share information with other institutions

7. CONSULTATIONS & RESPONSES

CM was not in attendance at the meeting and no report was received, there was no discussion.

8. CONFERENCE 2013

Results of CPHC Conference feedback were discussed which were considered favourable and lessons learnt which will be taken forward for the 2014 Conference. It was suggested that perhaps next year the questionnaire was not so BCS driven and CPHC/BCS branding on the On-Line Booking System could be reviewed. AGREED: Explain to membership the relationship between CPHC and BCS IP announced that the CPHC 2014 Conference will be on Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th April 2014 and will be located at Loughborough University. There will also be during that week the BCS Academy of Computing Symposium and the British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS) Annual Event. The three events will run alongside each other during that week. The CPHC 2014 AGM will be on Monday 7th April 2014. IP will send a “save the date” email to all members and work will start on a draft programme at the next meeting. ACTION: Chair

IP to check dates of HEA Conference. ACTION: Chair 9. CPHC OUTSTANDING SUBSCRIPTIONS 2013 REPORT RECEIVED AND NOTED: 10. REGULAR REPORTS 10.1 Treasurers Report (C. Maple) RECEIVED AND NOTED:

It was suggested that due to the amount of CPHC funds available it might be possible to reduce the cost of the conference and maybe offer a free place with a paid booking.

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10.2 Secretary’s Report (D. Duce) RECEIVED AND NOTED: List of Trustees are now on Website.

The English Charity Commission Annual return has been completed and the Scottish return will be completed following the meeting.

AGREED: LB, as Chair of the BCS Academy was co-opted back onto Committee as Advisor for a further year.

Proposed by Lachlan MacKinnon and Seconded by Edmund Robinson. Voted unanimously

10.3 Information Group Report (C. Maple) RECEIVED AND NOTED:

CM was not present at the meeting but he did circulate his report beforehand.

It was suggested that maybe the Committee could look at ways to attract more consultations. LM to check if CPHC are properly registered for various Government committee groups to ensure inclusion on their lists. ACTION: Lachlan MacKinnon

IP to discuss with LM & CM creating a CPHC Consultations mailing list following the meeting and a suggestion was made that perhaps CM should have a deputy, to be discussed when CM is present at the next meeting. ACTION: Chair

10.4 Learning Development Group Report (S Fincher)

The one on-going project ‘Survey of Computing Student Engagement (SCSE)’ has been extended until the end of May at the request of some of the institutions involved. A workshop involving these institutions will be arranged once full analysis has been completed.

10.5 Reports from Other Organisations & Activities RECEIVED AND NOTED: Digital Policy Alliance - All emails received by IP will continue to be forwarded to the mailing list. Anyone is welcome to attend DPA events. PICTFOR – All emails will be forwarded to the Committee and IP will continue to work that way. BCS Policy & Public Affairs Board – Now that LB has resigned from this Committee and there is not and does not need to be CPHC representation, it was agreed that this item be removed from reporting.

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E4E – Rhys Morgan is co-ordinating a number of responses on Vocational Qualifications and apprenticeships in Engineering and LM has contributed information taken from the LM and LB research for Computing in Schools, of which was much appreciated. CAS – A HEA STEM workshop ‘Rethinking the First Year Computing Curriculum’ is being run on 24th May in Cardiff by Tom Crick. BCS Academy – FE Training Blog and information of agenda items to be covered over the next 12 months are on the Website.

10.6 Chair’s Report (CPHC WEBLETTER) (I. Phillips)

IP to produce the Webletter and requested any contributions from the committee. To be actioned by, end of Monday 20th April. ACTION: Chair

11. AOB 11.1 Report on PICTFOR Breakfast Event RECEIVED AND NOTED:

As a member of PICTFOR, CPHC were invited to attend such events and Pasquale Malacaria (QMUL) attended on behalf of CPHC and produced this report. It was suggested that this report is added to the website but it would have to be revised by Pasquale before submission. ER to contact Pasquale.





CONFIDENTIAL CPHC/2013/15 COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING The meeting of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing will be held on Monday 8th July 2013 at 11am at BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. AGENDA 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE 2. MINUTES OF LAST MEETING CPHC/2013/14 3. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES 4. FOLLOW UP ON ANDREW WILSON WORKSHOP [I Phillips] 5. CPHC COMMITTEE ORGANISATION [D Duce] 6. BCS ACADEMY CHANGES [I Phillips] Items for discussion 7. CPHC RESEARCH AGENDA – PROGRAMME of WORK 7.1 Investigation of Entrepreneurship in Computing (Sally Fincher) Verbal 7.2 Attrition in Computing (Liz Bacon) Verbal 8. CONSULTATIONS & RESPONSES [C Maple] Verbal 9. CPHC/CAS REPORT [I Phillips] Verbal 10. CONFERENCE 2014 Items for report 11. REGULAR REPORTS

11.1 Treasurer’s Report [C Maple] CPHC/2013/16 11.2 Secretary’s Report [D Duce] CPHC/2013/17 11.3 Information Group Report – [C Maple] Verbal 11.4 Learning Development Group Report – [S Fincher] CPHC/2013/18 11.5 Reports from Other Organisations & Activities CPHC/2013/19 11.6 Chair’s Report (CPHC Webletter) [I Phillips] Verbal

12. AOB COMMITTEE MEETINGS 2013





Monday 25th/Tuesday 26th March, at Loughborough University, AGM & Annual Conference





CPHC/2013/16




2 July 2013 Treasurer’s Report Balance of account The net assets figure currently stands at £114,660.00. Outstanding Income/Commitments Of the £46,672.00 due from subscriptions for 2012-13, £41,581.00 has been received leaving £5,091.00 outstanding. The conference broke even. Carsten Maple Treasurer

CPHC/2013/16.1

Council of Professors and Heads of Computing

(Registered Charity number 803000)



2012/13 2011/12

£ £

Income


-Subscriptions (this years) 41,581 42,385

-Conference 40 2,995

-Mics 13

-CAS Initiative 3,750 0

45,383 45,380

From assets:

Investment income:

Bank interest 70 89

70 89


Expenditure


-Travel expenses and cost of meetings 4,484 4,495

-Learning Development Group meetings 1,175 852

-Subscriptions to other bodies 2,879 2,814

8,537 8,160

Other expenditure:

-Administrative costs 13,290 20,694

-Independent examiner's fee 990 0


-Conference 9,042 3,921


-Computing At Schools Funding 1,000 0

-Consulting -49 10,000

25,000 34,855

Total Expenditure 33,537 43,016


Council of Professors and Heads of Computing

(Registered Charity number 803000)

Balance Sheet


2012/13 2011/12

£ £

Current Assets



Conference due 0 0


Creditors 0 -17,455

Net Assets 114,660 102,744

Funds


Total Funds 114,660 102,744

CONFIDENTIAL CPHC/2013/17 COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING Secretary’s Report to 8 July 2013 meeting

David Duce, 25 June 2013

“Lightweight Processes” Following the discussion at the last Committee meeting, the secretary’s take away action was to “think about lightweight processes”. Two areas spring to mind. The first is the formal processes associated with our charitable status (filing of annual returns, accounts, etc.). The latter category is managed by the BCS on our behalf and operates effectively. It is worth noting that CPHC’s financial year ends on 30th June. The annual return for the Charity Commission for England and Wales must be submitted within 10 months of the financial year end, i.e. by end April. For the Scottish Charity Register the deadline is 9 months of the charity’s financial year end date, i.e. by end March. We missed the Scottish deadline for the 2012 return though met it for the 2011 return. The second is the operation of the committee. At the moment Penny requests papers and from members about 10 days before the date of the committee meeting. The assistant secretary requests updates to actions from members in a similar time scale. Penny then circulates a batch of papers to members by email about a week before the meeting. Minutes of committee meetings along with minutes and other documents are posted in the members area of the CPHC web site. The screen dump below shows the current list of documents in the members area. There is also a separate committee area on the web site, a partial screen dump of which is shown alongside. Questions

1. Do committee members use the members and committee areas of the web site? Usage statistics (which do not identify individual users) suggest that very limited use is made of the committee area and slightly more of the members area (though access to the members area includes access by non-committee members).

2. Are committee members content with the current way of working? 3. Are there changes members would like to see? 4. Are we holding the right kinds of information in the right places? For example reports to

committee meetings are not currently stored anywhere on the web site. 5. Would the benefits of change make change worthwhile or are the benefits marginal in the

face of other priorities? a. Which begs the question that the committee started to address at the May meeting –

what is it that we are trying to achieve and what processes do we need to support this?

Some suggestions. These are to provoke thought, and are not necessarily concrete, realistic, proposals for change.

1. Move from emailing of papers to a managed repository to which members could upload and download papers

a. Pro – gives members more freedom to collect and deliver papers when convenient b. Con – makes progress chasing harder; what hasn’t been uploaded can’t be

downloaded c. Pro – Finer grained access control, e.g. for public, members, committee, officers,

administrative staff d. Pro – some systems allow document search and indexing (e.g. DSpace) e. Con – costs if BCS do not already run a suitable repository of this kind

2. Use an on-line action tracking system a. Con – overkill for our needs?

Extract from Committee Area – this area also contains web usage statistics reports

Whilst preparing this paper the secretary noted some out of date documents in the committee area – the expenses claim form is being updated and the secretary is reviewing the CPHC Administrative Procedures document.

Annual Returns The annual return has now been successfully submitted to the Scottish Charity Register using the recently introduced electronic submission system for the first time. One minor problem was the inclusion of the English rather than the Scottish (SC041548) charity number on the accounts. This was corrected by the BCS Management Accountant and the submission was then accepted. The annual return to the Charity Commission for England and Wales is now available on their web site. The list of trustees has been updated to reflect the composition of the committee post the AGM in 2013. Membership The constitution states: (Article 5) The Committee shall consist of the Officers, the immediate past Chair and eight elected members who shall be members of the Council. In addition, the Committee may co-opt up to three persons, who need not be members of the Council. (Article 6) The Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary shall serve for a period of up to two years from election to office and shall not be eligible for immediate re-election to the same office. The Treasurer and other elected members shall serve for a period of up to two years and shall be eligible for re-election. The immediate past Chair shall be a member of the Committee and on completion of this role is not eligible to serve on the Committee in any capacity for a period of two years. Casual vacancies shall be filled by co-option. No person shall serve as an Officer or an elected member for more than seven years consecutively, except as Chair or Immediate Past Chair, in which case they may serve on the committee for a further period to complete the terms of office. Co-opted members are appointed only up to the end of the next Annual General Meeting. Membership of the Committee following the 2013 AGM is:

Present service Previous

Chair Iain Phillips 2012-2014 2009-2011 (member) 2010-2012 (vice chair)

Vice Chair Sally Smith 2012-2014 2011-2012 (member)

Treasurer Carsten Maple

2013-2015 2009-2011 (member) 2011-2013 (treasurer)

Secretary David Duce 2013-2015 2012-2013 (member)

Immediate past chair

Lachlan Mackinnon

2012-2014 2010-2012 (chair)

Other members

Martin Loomes

2013-2014 ( 2013 AGM notice said Martin eligible for re-election for 1 year, reaches 7 year

2007-2009, 2009-2011,

limit in 2014) 2011-2013,

Ian Wells 2013-2015 2011-2013

Stephen Jarvis

2012-2014

Edmund Robinson

2012-2014

Sally Fincher 2013-2015 2011-2013

Rupert Ward 2013-2015

Colin Johnson 2013-2015

Vic Grout 2013-2015

Co-opted members

Liz Bacon 2013-2014 (Committee meeting 13/5/13)

CPHC/2013/18

Learning Development Group report: July 2013

Previous activities 1. Enterprise & Entrepreneurship in the Undergraduate CS Curriculum

Liz Burd moved to Australia before compiling the “White Paper” comparative report. All the collected data is

available from the LDG webpage. This activity is thus completed – although Sally Smith may be interested in

taking some aspect(s) forward.

2. Survey of Computing Student Engagement

This ran Jan –May 2013 with 13 pilot institutions, 8 of which gathered data for a total of 519 participants.

Analysis is on-going, and there will be a meeting for feedback from the pilot institutions next week.

Following that, we will amend the survey as needed; adjust timings etc. with a view to offering it to all CS

Departments in 2014.

Since we started this initiative there has been something of an explosion in student engagement surveys.

Whilst we believe SCSE is still a useful and valuable disciplinary exercise, we will also consider the added

value of offering the associated Faculty survey alongside.

Possible future activities Working Groups under consideration include:

1. Radical first year approaches.

Coventry and Middlesex (for example) have altered their first year to an intensely project-focussed, studio-

based approach. Contemporary case studies of such approaches might be of interest to the local

practitioners delivering the new material as well as the wider audience of educators at other institutions.

This Working Group would scaffold the collection of material (teacher diaries, interviews, observations etc.)

and its collation into case studies.

2. Hands-on learning

The inclusion of tangible artefacts into the curriculum is of newly-renewed interest (arduino, raspberry pi

etc). A workshop, or short series of events, might be of interest to share practice (both pedagogic and

managerial) in this emerging arena.

3. Pedagogic innovation in a REF year

What are the stimuli for, or inhibitors of, pedagogic innovation? Can propitious conditions be manipulated?

Can successful practices be copied from one location to another? A workshop, or series of events targeted at

different populations (“head of teaching”; chalk-face practitioners; possibly head of department) might be

valuable to share practice in this area.

4. Peer Observation within the Computing Classroom

Peer Observation is relatively common in UK Universities, and many colleagues will have experienced being

observed. This working group proposes to facilitate cross-institutional peer observation, so that teachers can

observe others teaching the same course/material that they do, but in a different context. This spreads

experience through “sticky” encounters and expands the pedagogic repertoire across the sector. This

unusual approach was a highly-regarded feature of the Disciplinary Commons series of workshops, and

might be conducted as a joint venture with the HEA.

Sally Fincher

28 June 2013

CPHC/2013/19 Agenda item


th July 2013



Digital Policy Alliance (EURIM) PICTFOR

VERBAL VERBAL

Sally Smith – Vice Chair

Scottish Heads of Computing (SHOC)

NOTHING TO REPORT

Martin Loomes

CPHC rep on UKCRC BCS Academy of Computing – Education Committee

NOTHING TO REPORT NOTHING TO REPORT

Liz Bacon

Academy Update

The Academy is looking to recruit two new VP’s and to restructure in order to prioritise its resources.


Distinguished Dissertations

At present Distinguished Dissertations have 20 submissions which are currently out for review. Simon Thompson – 13

th June 2013

Lachlan MacKinnon

E4E Computing At School

NOTHING TO REPORT NOTHING TO REPORT

Ian Wells

Welsh Section of CPHC

NOTHING TO REPORT

Jim Yip – not on Committee

Engineering Professors Council

NOTHING TO REPORT – Next meeting due to be held 10

th July 2013.

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CPHC2013/20


COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING Minutes of the Committee meeting of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing held on Monday 8th July 2013 at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London. WC2E 7HA PRESENT Iain Phillips (Chair) IP Liz Bacon LB David Duce DD Sally Fincher SF Vic Grout VG Martin Loomes ML Carsten Maple CM Edmund Robinson ER Morris Sloman (UKCRC) MS Rupert Ward RW IN ATTENDANCE (Secretariat) Penny Ballard (BCS) APOLOGIES Lachlan MacKinnon Sally Smith Ian Wells Colin Johnson Stephen Jarvis

1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE AND WELCOME


The minutes of the last meeting held on the Monday 13th May 2013 required a small amendment before being approved. These minutes will now be approved at the October meeting.

3. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES/ACTIONS LIST 9th July 2013 Actions from Committee meeting – Monday 13th May 2013 4.0 - IP has contacted Stephen Jarvis, still awaiting a reply. 11.1 – ER has contacted Pasquale Malacaria, still awaiting a reply.

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4. FOLLOW UP ON ANDREW WILSON WORKSHOP

Following the Andrew Wilson Workshop which took place on Monday 13th May 2013, the Committee discussed further the traffic light format created at the workshop to formulate a plan of actions for future meetings, this is bullet pointed below:

GREEN: Really push for:

Building common agreement where exists

Academy to host summit so we can all meet/network/check

Fragmentation: CPHC/UKCRC/BCSA – BCS/IET?

Identify (our own) concerns - Champions

Collect more data – and report

Use money not volunteer effort

Keep inclusivity – all CS Depts. in HE

Communicate with membership

AMBER: Pay attention to:

High quality, clear information

Accept and manage diversity of constituency

Conference - Higher profile speakers - Uniqueness of information - What do people want to know?

Lobbying flows

The craft of Lobbying

Lighter weight committee process to review

Keep CPHC in mind

RED: Stop:

Worrying

Rants on Email

Time releases to avoid grumpiness

Provide better conduits IP to produce a full report of what was discussed at meeting which will be used as a basis of how CPHC works in the future; this will be distributed to the Committee members following the meeting. ACTION: Chair VG volunteered to produce a ‘good use policy’ or an acceptable paragraph for the website which he will bring to next meeting. ACTION: Vic Grout 5. CPHC COMMITTEE ORGANISATION

DD presented his report on Lightweight Processes which can be found contained within the Secretary’s report at agenda item 11.2.

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Following the request for volunteers at the last meeting, to take up the vacant posts of Assistant Secretary, Web Administrator and LDG Chair the following responses were received by the Chair: Sally Fincher – LDG Chair (to stand again) Colin Johnson – Assistant Secretary Vic Grout – Web Administrator In addition Edmund Robinson and Rupert Ward also indicated their interest in taking a role in the Information Group. All roles were confirmed. DD to brief CJ and VG on the roles they have volunteered to undertake ACTION: David Duce

6. BCS ACADEMY CHANGES

BCS Academy are considering a restructure and had consulted with CPHC and in light of today’s discussions IP is to write a response and consult with the Committee before sending to Bill Mitchell.

ACTION: Chair 7. CPHC RESEARCH AGENDA – PROGRAMME OF WORK 7.1 Investigation of Entrepreneurship in Computing

This activity is now completed, although after discussion Sally Smith may be interested in taking some aspect(s) forward. All of the collected data is now available from the LDG webpage and SF will circulate the link to the website to all members. ACTION: Sally Fincher

7.2 Attrition in Computing

RW sourced and put forward the name of Alexandros Chrysikos, a PhD student from the University of Huddersfield who will carry out further investigation into the Attrition as per the report from Liz and Lachlan that was circulated before the meeting. RW, LB & Lachlan MacKinnon to discuss details and specifications of the research to be carried out and forward to IP. ACTION: Rupert Ward, Liz Bacon & Lachlan MacKinnon

LB left the meeting at this point 8. CONSULTATIONS & RESPONSES

There were no Consultations to report on and Committee were advised that due to very short deadlines this makes consultations difficult to respond to. As chair of the Information Group CM referred to the document CPHC/2013/04 from the meeting of 4th February 2013 for the new procedures for Consultations.

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After a call for Committee members to be part of the CPHC Information Group, the following members have volunteered: Rupert Ward Edmond Robinson Liz Bacon The CPHC website to be updated to reflect the above new contacts and their email details. ACTION: Secretariat Following this meeting CM is due to attend the Digital Policy Alliance AGM and evening reception on behalf of CPHC and he will produce a report to bring back to the next meeting. POST MEETING – CM attended the AGM and advised the Committee by email that he will not be producing a report due to the extremely short duration of the meeting. The topics covered included the finances which were not presented but are available on the DPA website and nominations for the 15 MP members and 15 industry members. At the reception after the AGM there was an introduction from Stephen McPartland MP followed by two presentations: one from CEOP and one from eSkills UK. CM discussed with Philip Virgo on how he and CPHC might work more closely together.

9. CPHC/CAS REPORT

IP reported that Simon Humphreys now has a plan on how to use the committed £20K from CPHC Membership and Committee funds. CAS would like to have a representative from each Computer Science Department in the country and a very comprehensive list of duties for this position has been produced, however, it will be a matter of HoD’s to allocate staff time to this role. CPHC will look at ways to help facilitate this. IP will contact Simon Humphreys to discuss further and report back to Committee at the next meeting. ACTION: Chair

10. CONFERENCE 2014

The dates of the CPHC Annual Conference have now been confirmed as Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th April 2014, at Loughborough University and will be ahead of the BCS Academy of Computing Symposium and the British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS) Annual event that will run from Tuesday 8th April until Friday 11th April. IP is sourcing meeting rooms within the University and hotels close by and he indicated that there would be a charge for rooms this time. IP asked members for topics for the Conference agenda for the Committee to review at the next meeting ACTION: All

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11. REGULAR REPORTS 11.1 Treasurers Report REPORT RECEIVED AND NOTED:

CM also advised that he would compile a breakdown of the 2013 Conference costs and bring this to the next meeting. It was agreed that a sum of £8,000 would be provided for the Attrition research to be carried out by Alexandros Chrysikos and IP requested a full plan of actions to be produced and to gain approval by Committee members before releasing the funds. RW to discuss with LB and Lachlan MacKinnon as per the action in agenda item 7.2.

11.2 Secretary’s Report REPORT RECEIVED AND NOTED:

11.3 Information Group Report This item was covered under agenda item 8, Consultations and Responses. 11.4 Learning Development Group Report REPORT RECEIVED AND NOTED: As the report states there are four working groups under consideration and RW volunteered to assist SF with item four and ML volunteered to assist with items one and two, if these are taken forward as future activities.

11.5 Reports from Other Organisations & Activities REPORT RECEIVED AND NOTED:

Digital Policy Alliance (Eurim) - IP reported that he would continue to feed all emails from the DPA to the Committee. PICTFOR – CM attended a reception where John Whittingdale MP was the speaker. IP had nothing to report. Welsh Section of CPHC - In Ian Wells absence, VG reported that Leighton Andrews, Welsh Government Education Minister and the opening speaker for the 2013 CPHC Conference has now resigned and has been replaced by Huw Lewis.

11.6 Chair’s Report (CPHC WEBLETTER) (I. Phillips) IP to produce Webletter before next meeting and advised all members that he would welcome any contributions towards the Webletter. Members requested to email IP. VG in his role as Web Administrator, volunteered to take on co-ordination for the Webletter with IP. IP, VG & DD will discuss after of the meeting.

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12. AOB There were no items of other business.






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CONFIDENTIAL CPHC2013/21 COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING The meeting of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing will be held on Monday 7th October 2013 at 11am at BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. AGENDA 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE 2. MINUTES OF MEETINGS 13th MAY 2013 CPHC2013/14

8th JULY 2013 CPHC2013/20

3. MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES 4. STRATEGIC PRIORITIES for CPHC 5. CONFERENCE 2014 Items for discussion 6. CPHC RESEARCH AGENDA – PROGRAMME OF WORK 7. CONSULTATIONS & REPONSES [C Maple] UKCRC Response to HEFCE Open Access Consultation CPHC2013/25 (This paper was tabled at the meeting for inclusion in the minutes) 8. CPHC/CAS REPORT [I Phillips] Items for report 9. REGULAR REPORTS

9.1 Treasurer’s Report - [C Maple] CPHC2013/22 9.2 Secretary’s Report - [D. Duce] CPHC2013/24 (This report was tabled at the meeting for inclusion in the minutes) 9.3 Information Group Report - [C Maple] VERBAL 9.4 Learning Development Group Report - [S Fincher] VERBAL 9.5 Reports from Other Organisations & Activities CPHC2013/23

9.6 Chair’s Report (CPHC Webletter) - [I Phillips] VERBAL

10. AOB COMMITTEE MEETINGS 2013




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CPHC/2013/22




24 September 2013 Treasurer’s Report Balance of account The net assets figure currently stands at £5,238.00. It is anticipated that there will be a similar surplus this year as there was last and, in addition, there is still a significant amount in the RBS. I would recommend a call, firstly to the committee, for new initiatives including research that we wish to undertake for the forthcoming year. Outstanding Income/Commitments Following the meeting held on 8 July 2013, those institutions who had outstanding subscriptions were chased. Of the £46,672.00 that was due from subscriptions for 2012-13, £2,949.00 remains outstanding. A purchase order has been raised for the University of Huddersfield in the sum of £8,000.00 (£5,000.00 bursary plus £3,000.00 travel expenses in respect of the Post Doc who is working on the project for CPHC. The sum of £14,750 has been sent to support the CAS initiative and its relationship to HE. £1,000.00 remains outstanding for development of the European CPHC and also some costs for the domain. I understand this initiative is progressing, albeit more slowly than hoped. Carsten Maple Treasurer




2013/14 2012/13

£ £

Income


-Subscriptions (this years) 0 41,581

-Conference 4,250 40

-Mics 0 13

-CAS Initiative 1,000 3,750

5,250 45,383

From assets:

Investment income:

Bank interest 21 70

21 70


Expenditure


-Travel expenses and cost of meetings 393 6,220

-Learning Development Group meetings 0 1,175

-Subscriptions to other bodies 0 2,879

393 10,273

Other expenditure:

-Administrative costs 65 19,371

-Independent examiner's fee 208 1,990


-Conference 0 9,531


-Computing At Schools Funding 0 1,000

-Consulting 0 -49

273 32,623

Total Expenditure 666 42,896



Balance Sheet


2013/14 2012/13

£ £

Current Assets



Conference due 0 0


Creditors -1,000 -8,144

Net Assets 109,906 105,301

Funds


Total Funds 109,906 105,301

CPHC/2013/22.1



th October 2013


Name Report area Anything to report?

Iain Phillips – Chair

Digital Policy Alliance (EURIM) PICTFOR

VERBAL VERBAL

Sally Smith – Vice Chair Scottish Heads of Computing (SH0C)

VERBAL

Martin Loomes

CPHC rep on UKCRC BCS Academy of Computing Research Committee

VERBAL VERBAL

Liz Bacon BCS Academy Update

Focus is still on restructuring the Academy Board and implementing the Network of Excellence.


Distinguished Dissertations

Lachlan MacKinnon

E4E Computing At School

VERBAL VERBAL

Jim Yip – not on Committee Engineering Professors Council Appendix 1

Vic Grout Welsh Section of CPHC

Appendix 2

Appendix 1

EPC discussed the following n the Annual Strategic Retreat.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that our members are having to make difficult choices as budgets become more and more restricted and they

seek value for money

We affirm the following key elements of our mission:

o The “trade body”, federation or “Mission Group” representing engineering higher education

o A supportive and informative network for its members where they can share information, views and help develop policy on matters of pre-

competitive interest

o Provider of “thought leadership” on matters of strategy and policy relating to engineering education and research

a proposal to carry out some extensive research to inform policy making and underpin future discussions on Comprehensive Spending Reviews would

likely be too expensive to carry out, given other priorities. That said, it was agreed that EPC needed a position statement with regard to funding

research, particularly as a) the overall quantum and method of allocation of Quality-Related (QR) funding post REF is still unclear and b) there is an

increasing trend to concentration in research funding by RCUK (see also Session 3 for action on this).

Already underway:

o the characteristics of unemployed graduates and recommendations for action (jointly with RAEng)

o early enrolments survey 2013

Important and urgent:

o Support for continuing the SIVS financial contribution

o The role and contribution of knowledge transfer activity in universities (esp. in relation to promotional opportunities)

o Outcomes: levels and skills – what’s essential for employment? Is accreditation important? What level of degree do employers want? (Potential

for sponsorship from Engineering Council)

o the funding of postgraduate study with particular reference to funding for UK students. (NB: some of the trends work has already been

completed – further work on potential proposals for part time/distance learning, exemplar case studies and demand from employers, together

with a position statement for EPC are required. See section 3 for action).

Important (post REF):

o Alternative assessment methods to encompass the role of examinations, project-based learning and best practice in use of VLEs. Also consider

whether there is there a link to employability

o Open Access: the impact on funding and existing budgets, patterns of publication etc.

o Learning from the REF: especially the “impact of impact”

Tour of the new technology campus at the University of Chester

Committee members were then offered a toured of the new campus acquired by the University of Chester from Shell. This exciting development, part

of the regional economic plan, has offered the University the opportunity to start a new engineering school and has inherited extensive research

laboratories, equipment and campus infrastructure from Shell who will vacate completely in March 2014 and relocate to Germany and the US. The

new heads of Department and Dean had only started in the week we visited and the first students will start in September 2014. EPC Committee

members offered advice and support and the Vice Chancellor has recommended membership of the EPC to the staff.

Jim Yip

September 2013

Appendix 2

COUNCIL OF HEADS OF COMPUTING IN WALES

A meeting of the Council of Heads of Computing in Wales (CPCC) was held on Thursday 19th

September 2013 at 11am at Cardiff Metropolitan

University.

MINUTES

1. Welcome and apologies for absence

Present:

Dr. Sa’ad Mansour [SM], Bangor University

Dr. Jason Williams [JW], Cardiff Metropolitan University

Charlie Godfrey [CG], HPC Wales

Professor Vic Grout [VG], Glyndŵr University (Chair)

VG opened the meeting. Apologies were received as follows:

Apologies:

Dr. Steve Hole, Swansea Metropolitan University of Wales Trinity St. David

Professor Ian Wells, Swansea Metropolitan University of Wales Trinity St. David

Professor Roger Whittaker, Cardiff University

Professor Andrew Ware, University of South Wales

Professor Matt Jones, Swansea University

Professor Qiang Shen, Aberystwyth University

It was noted that two key exam boards at member institutions had had an unfortunate effect on attendance at the meeting.

2. Minutes of last meeting, matters arising and actions

The minutes of the meeting held at Swansea Metropolitan University of Wales Trinity St. David on 16/05/2013 were agreed a true record.

Matters arising:

“What does CPCC represent?”

VG had started the process of collecting staff and student data from the Computing/CS departments of Welsh universities. Responses and data had been received

from Swansea University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Glyndŵr University and Swansea Metropolitan University of Wales Trinity St. David. Responses were

still needed from Bangor University, University of South Wales, Cardiff University and Aberystwyth University. Ongoing action VG to chase down further data.

3Updates on Recent Issues

The only discussion on updates on recent issues related to items to be found elsewhere on the agenda and in the sections below.

4 HPC Wales Update

CG, from HPC Wales, gave a full updated report on various aspects of HPC Wales provision, including the student bursaries now available at both

undergraduate and postgraduate level and the enhanced range of tools and applications available to HPC Wales users. Her full presentation is attached with

these minutes along with a summary of bursary arrangements currently existing with Welsh universities. An interesting discussion followed, including relevant

questions and answers and the committee thanked CG for her attendance and presentation.

5 Welsh Schools ICT Curriculum

It was noted that the Welsh ICT Steering Committee had now finished its programme of discussions and, it was believed, had reported to the Welsh

Government Minister for Education (Huw Lewis). The committee awaited the publication of this report, and the actions arising from it, with interest.

6 National CPHC Committee and Conference 2014

It was confirmed that the National CPHC Conference and AGM would take place at Loughborough University on the 7th and 8th of April 2014, in a wider

programme including the BCS Academy Conference.

There was a brief discussion on the question of how to improve attendance at the National CPHC Conference. The committee noted that this was a difficult

problem in that attendance at this event was unfortunately often not a high priority for active researchers and heads of CS departments.

The committee discussed the CPHC committee investigation and report into the high levels of unemployment among CS graduates. The recent publicity in the

press was also noted and it was hoped that this would serve to raise awareness of the role of the CPHC in the wider community

7 Welsh HE Situation

It was noted that there had been no significant development since the previous meeting in the structure of Welsh universities and that it would be possible to

conclude that further reorganisation was, at present, not on the agenda. The relationship between Welsh FE Colleges and universities was also discussed in

some detail, in particular the recent Welsh FE mergers, creating a smaller number of much larger Welsh FE institutions and their increased ambitions so far as

the HE market was concerned.

Recruitment numbers for most Welsh CS departments appeared to be strong for September 2013 although the continued migration of sponsored Welsh students

across the English border continues to be a concern.

8 AOB

VG thanked JW and Cardiff Metropolitan University for hosting the meeting and their hospitality.

9 Date of next meeting

With the relatively small number of committee members present, an exact decision on the location and date for the next meeting was deferred for discussion via

e-mail. However, it was agreed that a date towards the end of January 2014 would be appropriate and SM offered Bangor University as a location. It was

noted that this might not have a positive effect on attendance and the membership would be consulted.

CONFIDENTIAL CPHC2013/24 COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS AND HEADS OF COMPUTING The Web Site

David Duce, Vic Grout, Iain Phillips 2 October 2013

Background Following on from the discussion of “Lightweight Processes” (see secretary’s report CPHC/2013/17) at the July 2013 meeting, Vic, Iain, and David have given further thought to the CPHC web site and changes that might be made. Progress Initially a number of questions were posed to Simon Curd the BCS Website Development Manager. Specifically: In an ideal world we would like a site that is hosted in a separate virtual machine over which we have complete control. In other words the service host would be responsible for maintaining a live server and for content backup, but designated CPHC Committee members would be able to upload content directly to parts of the site allocated to their control. For example, Vic might have write access to the whole site, the chair of our Learning Development Group might have write access to pages describing that activity, all Committee members might have write access to a private committee area. We are assuming that the site would be maintained through a content management system and that we might have a test area in which to experiment with page organisation and branding prior to going live with a new site. Simon replied: Currently www.cphc.ac.uk is currently on a virtual server which through a contract we have with our hosting provider. This includes backups, monitoring and patching. As you described all changes currently go through the webteam, and all content is managed through static HTML files. We can easily provide you with FTP access to the site to give you greater control over how this content is managed, whilst we maintain responsibility for the live server. We would affectively be handing the content editing over to you for direct control over the site. This could either be to edit the HTML files which already exist or using the space to install a suitable CMS interface for the site. If we go down this route we would need to agree any changes to the existing site management process, to determine where our responsibility starts and ends for content editing.

http://www.cphc.ac.uk/

We could also provide you with a second space to help with testing, which could also be used to explore possible content management systems. The server is running Apache, PHP and MySQL. I can also provide you with further details on exactly what software versions are currently installed. With regards to the actually implementing a CMS, unfortunately we don’t currently have the resource capacity to help migrate the site over to CMS platform, although as above we are happy to provide access to the existing space, and provide CPHC with a second space, whilst BCS maintaining responsibility for the server. The last point was something of a sticking point. Whilst installing a CMS is usually straightforward, and the on-going maintenance task is in principle straightforward too, if we were to depend on hard-pressed volunteers to do this we could well expose an unpatched site to attack if maintenance isn’t a priority task. We therefore started to explore other solutions with other providers. In general though our finding was that other providers don’t offer CMS patching either – this is usually the responsibility of the user. The one exception we found to this was WordPress on their own hosting platforms. Since both Vic and Iain have experience of WordPress, we agreed that Vic would set up a basic WordPress site as an experiment. In parallel with this activity, Vic was granted access to the current site. It turned out though that there would be difficulties updating this directly as the site appears to be a mirror of a collection of documents held by BCS and direct updating would break the integrity of this. At the same time we gave some thought to the possible information structure of a new site (see Appendix). An Outline Site Vic has created a skeleton WordPress site at http://cphcuk.wordpress.com/ The site is split into public pages, members pages and committee pages. The latter two areas are password protected. Basic content has been taken from the current site. The members’ pages also contain a new draft Web Letter. Vic will give a short demonstration of the site at the meeting. Actions

1. Committee members are invited to comment on the approach being taken and the initial site 2. The Committee is invited agree that a WordPress solution should be pursued. If this is

acceptable, then a budget of $100 USD is requested for an upgrade to the Premium version of WordPress which gives better layouts, no adverts and a few other useful features. (The standard version is free.)

3. The Committee is invited to ask the working group to discuss further with BCS the operational aspects of a WordPress solution, i.e. how BCS staff could add content directly to the site (which has some training implications).

http://cphcuk.wordpress.com/

Appendix – Document Model A draft document model was prepared following discussions after the last CPHC Committee meeting. This splits our collection into private and public, hopefully capturing some key aspects of the discussion we had at the July meeting. The map isn’t exhaustive with respect to the current site but covers some areas that the secretary is familiar with. The key thing is the separation of public and private. Other considerations.

1. Documents to be in html (or other appropriate markup language) or PDF. 2. Committee papers to be hyperlinked from corresponding agenda. 3. Zip file containing all papers and agenda to be generated for download by committee

members prior to each meeting. 4. Committee minutes to be public - must be screened for inappropriate content.

Access control [ideal, not necessarily practical]

1. Each committee member to have own login credentials, granting access to appropriate private parts of the model, e.g. committee area, working group area (if wg member too).

2. Committee/wg members to be able to create documents and modify documents they have created. Also be able to read documents in sections of model to which have access.

3. Selected committee members to have rights to create and modify sections of the public model to which they are granted editorial control.

Index/search [ideal, not necessarily practical]

1. 1.automatically generated indices by document title, author, .... 2. searchable content - in public area for the public and the private area for committee

members

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CPHC2013/25

UKCRC Response to HEFCE Open Access Consultation. Draft 1.1

The UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC), an Expert Panel of BCS The Chartered

Institute for IT, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Council of Professors

and Heads of Computing, was formed in November 2000 as a policy committee for

computing research in the UK. Its members are leading computing researchers from UK

academia and industry. Our evidence reflects the experience of researchers who each have

an established international reputation in computing.

The Current Position in Computing Science

Computing Science research has a strong tradition of open access publication. For many

years the typical model of publication for individuals working in academic CS research labs

has been to make available, via a personal or institutional Web repository, a copy of each

author’s “accepted manuscript” (or some other version, normally after peer review). This

makes each paper globally accessible and the costs of maintaining personal/institutional

Web portals of this sort are absorbed as part of the normal baseline of research activity

within a well founded laboratory. The accepted manuscript is also, typically, published in a

journal or conference proceedings (in CS, major international conference proceedings are at

least as important and impactful as journals). The value of this second stage of publication

is to make the paper more visible through table of contents listings, email alerts and indexing

on searchable publication databases. It is also a means of improving and endorsing the

quality of the paper, through the process of independent peer review and quality control that

a prestigious conference/journal provides. The cost of this second stage is met either (for

conference papers) by the fees paid by conference attendees or (for journal papers) by the

subscription paid by those receiving the journal. Some of our journals are produced via our

learned societies (such as ACM or IEEE) and for these the cost of publishing is partly funded

through membership subscriptions and partly through subscription from university libraries.

The main publishers of conference proceedings (such as ACM and IEEE) do not currently

support Gold Access for conferences, although they do for journals. Overall, the effect is

that the Computing Science community has Green open access as its dominant style of

publication with an element of Gold where subscriptions allow.

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Consultation questions

Question 1

Do you agree that the criteria for open access are appropriate (subject to clarification on whether

accessibility should follow immediately on acceptance or on publication)?

Do you have any comments on this proposal?

Although UKCRC strongly supports open access, and thinks this should be encouraged

by HEFCE and the Research Councils, we oppose the policy of introducing criteria other

than research excellence into the REF research assessment process.

Past research assessments have allowed academics and institutions to select their

outputs for submission based on what they consider to be the best representation of

the quality of research. The outputs were then assessed by assessors based on well

defined research quality criteria.

This proposal now establishes fundamentally different criteria on the output selection

– outputs published by publishers or organisations which do not abide by publication

policies set by Funding Councils, are banned from submission to REF, independent

of their quality. Open Access should not be a REF selection criteria.

This establishes a precedent of output selection not based on quality but on political

policy. The next step could be banning outputs due to the politics or country of the

publisher, venue of a conference etc.

However, if the policy is forced on the community, then we consider the criteria for open

access are broadly acceptable with slight modification – see question 2 below.

Question 2

Do you agree with the role outlined for institutional repositories, subject to further work on

technical feasibility?

Should the criteria require outputs to be made accessible through institutional repositories at the

point of acceptance or the point of publication?

Do you have any comments on these proposals?

We agree that HEFCE should support individual or shared institutional repositories.

Economies of scale can be achieved if many institutions use the same repository rather

than each ‘doing their own thing’. The repository should enable academics to set up a

web page of publications, which can be tagged and sorted based on topic, date etc. and

minimise the effort required by the academic for entering information. This implies the

repository should source information on publications from publishers or web-based

resources. The author could then be reminded to upload the relevant submitted version

e.g. for Green Open Access. The repository should always provide a link to the

publisher’s version of the paper.

Although we think that authors should make their publications available as early as

possible, it requires considerable manual effort to enter information at time of

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acceptance, whereas this can often be automated after publication on publishers web

pages, so the criteria should only insist on point of publication time.

We do not see the necessity for insisting on outputs being accessed only through UK HEI

repositories, as some communities use international ones such as ACM Author-izer

Service, ArXiv, PubMed etc.. Part a for the criteria should be rephrased as follows:

“Outputs are accessible through a UK HEI or any other suitable open access repository,

immediately upon either acceptance or publication (to be decided, as outlined in

paragraph 29), although the repository may provide access in a way that respects agreed

embargo periods”

Question 3

Do you agree that the proposed embargo periods should apply by REF main panel, as outlined

above?

Do you agree with the proposed requirements for appropriate licences?


We do not support publisher embargoes on Green Open Access. Green Open

Access should be allowed immediately after publication. However, we do not

consider that REF is the right means of persuading publishers to agree to this. We

agree that pressure should be put on publishers to reduce embargo periods for

Green Open Access, but we do not support banning REF submissions of outputs,

from publishers which do not meet these criteria.

We agree that appropriate licenses are needed for third party use of open access

content.

Question 4

Do you agree that the criteria for open access should apply only to journal articles and

conference proceedings for the post-2014 REF?


Yes we definitely agree that the criteria for open access should apply only to journal and

conference proceedings. Many other forms of outputs submitted to REF, such as

monographs, books, works of art, specific reports are often not available as open access.

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Question 5

Do you agree that a notice period of two years from the date of the policy announcement is

appropriate to allow for the publication cycle of journal articles and conference proceedings?


The criteria application should be based on submission date rather than an arbitrary

publication date, in order to cover many journals which take more than 2 years to accept

and publish papers i.e. the criteria should apply to papers submitted after the policy

comes into force.

Question 6

Do you agree that criteria for open access should apply only to those outputs listing a UK HEI in

the output’s ‘address’ field for the post-2014 REF?


If we have to accept this bad policy, then is applying it to outputs which have a UK HEI

‘address’ in the output at least covers people who join UK institutions during the REF

period. However the policy will still be detrimental to international collaboration as

authors from other countries will have to agree to publish in ‘REF approved’ venues.

Question 7

Which approach to allowing exceptions is preferable?

If selecting option b:

Do you agree that the percentage targets are appropriate?

Do you believe the percentage target should apply consistently or vary by REF main

panel?


We oppose applying for exceptions on individual outputs, due to the administrative

burden this causes to institutions.

We consider a percentage target is preferable but this should be the percentage of

outputs to which the policy applies i.e. 70% of conference and journal papers, not all

outputs. This could then be the same target for all panels as those panels where outputs

are typically not conferences or journals, would not require reduced targets.