Worcester Development Plans 2017

Attend this event to hear the Worcester Development Plans – Informing you are FOUR of Worcester’s leading development figures who will be presenting their investment/development plans for the next few years!

Join us at The Guildhall, Worcester on 7th February to hear the Development Plans for Worcester over the next few years and network with peers from the Construction & Property Industry!

In attendance will be Architects, Surveyors, Engineers, Project Managers, Business Development Managers, Solicitors, Lawyers and many more Construction and Property Professionals, there to hear about the Worcester Development Plans and network with like-minded individuals.

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Worcester Development Plans Event Format

• 1530 – 1600; Registration
• 1600 – 1645; Networking with Wine, Beer and Soft Drinks
• 1645 – 1815; Speaker Presentations
• 1815 – 1900; Networking with Hot Food, Wine, Beer and Soft Drinks

Worcester Development Plans Speakers

Professor David Green, Vice Chancellor & Chief Executive; University of Worcester

Professor David Green is the Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Worcester. He has been the University’s executive head since 2003 and is accountable to the University’s Board of Governors for the strategic leadership, overall performance and management of the University. He has led Worcester to successful applications for full University title in 2005, and for Research Degree Awarding Powers in 2010.

During his time in office, revenues at Worcester have more than trebled as have student applications. The University has achieved an outstanding reputation for educational quality, imaginative, inclusive innovation, sound management and ethical leadership. Worcester has been Britain’s fastest growing University since 2005. In 2010 Worcester was designated as one of the best 75 Places to work in the public sector in Britain. In 2011 Worcester was ranked 3rd Greenest of all Britain’s Universities.

A Professor of Economics, specialising in international finance, David was educated at the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Worcester, David held senior academic posts at London South Bank University, Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of West London. He has worked as a researcher, consultant and economist in both the private sector and for SHELTER, the campaign for the homeless, and has engaged in extensive voluntary work in community organisations and for racial equality.

From 2006 to 2012 David served on the 12-strong national Board of the Teaching and Development Agency for Schools, which was responsible for the funding and framework for teacher training throughout England and an annual budget of up to £700 million. Since 2009 he has served as a member of the UK’s Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers which advises the Quality Assurance Agency and Privy Council on institutional applications and matters of general principle concerning University Title and Degree Awarding Powers.

David represents Worcester on the two UK wide representative bodies for Higher Education UniversitiesUK and GuildHE, as well as on Universities West Midlands which he chaired for the academic year 2010-11.

During David’s time at Worcester, the University has grown significantly. Applications to study at the University have increased seven times faster than the national average, the largest sustained increase for any University in the UK. The University now educates over 10,000 students annually.

In recent years, University of Worcester revenues have more than tripled. Careful financial management has ensured the University has earned consistent annual financial surpluses which have underpinned an imaginative, dynamic building programme to provide many new facilities for students, researchers and the broader community. These include The Hive, Britain’s first University and Public Library and The Worcester Arena, Britain’s first indoor University and Community Sports Arena specifically designed to include wheelchair athletes.

During David’s tenure, Worcester’s programme of capital development has been particularly extensive and imaginative. A new City Campus has been created from the beautiful, historic but previously derelict buildings of the former Worcester Royal Infirmary. Abandoned buildings on the banks of the River Severn have been transformed into centres for Art, Dance, Sports and Performance as well as new classrooms and learning space. New Science labs have been built for research and teaching. University Park, a new Business, Enterprise, Science and Health Park is under construction. Over 360 residential places in four new Halls of Residence have been constructed and all the University’s older rooms in Halls have been extensively refurbished. The Students’ Union building has been completely refurbished as have the University’s classrooms and original University Library which is being transformed into a student advice, learning and guidance centre.

Worcester graduates have consistently recorded some of the best employment rates for graduates from any University in the UK and the University’s work to promote graduate employability, including the introduction of a salaried graduate internship scheme in the depths of the recession has received national acclaim. David has championed the development of close working relationships with businesses, community, educational, health care, regional and sporting organisations. In 2011, Worcester was designated ‘The University partner of choice’ by the National Childbirth Trust.

David is a frequent commentator on both educational and economic matters for press and broadcast media. He has been interviewed on the Sunday Politics Show, BBC Breakfast, Channel 4 News, Sky News, The Radio 4 Today Programme and The World This Weekend as well as BBC News 24, Midlands Today, Central News, Radio 5 Live, Radio 1 and for local BBC and commercial radio. He has contributed articles and been interviewed in the Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, Times, Financial Times and Daily Mail as well as the leading UK journal on higher education The THES and the leading US journal on higher education The Chronicle. David is known as an outspoken advocate of increased educational opportunity and of the positive, productive role of Universities in modern society.

A passion for educational inclusion combined with quality and professionalism has characterised David’s career. Whilst at South Bank University in the 1990s, David headed the 80-academic-strong Department of International Business and Languages, which recorded that University’s first ever ‘excellent’ rating from the national Quality Assurance Agency. Appointed Dean of the Leeds Business School in 1998, at the time one of Britain’s largest Business Schools with 250 staff and several thousand students, David led it to achieve Leeds Metropolitan’s University’s only ‘perfect score’ of 24 out of 24 for Business and Economics education – a score which propelled the Leeds Business School to be rated Britain’s best new University Business School in the early 21st Century. At Worcester, the University was awarded Outstanding ratings for Primary, Secondary and Employment-based Teacher Training in 2010, whilst later in the same year the Nursing and Midwifery Council graded the University’s provision in Nursing and Midwifery as good in all five categories – the best rating possible. The regular institutional audits from the Quality Assurance Agency have all been most positive with particular commendations for inclusion, student involvement and work to promote student and graduate employability.

Marc Dorfman, Interim Deputy Director Economic Development & Planning; Worcester City Council

Jonathan Green, Senior Development Surveyor; St Modwen

Vic Allison, Deputy Managing Director; Wychavon District Council

Vic started his career as Trainee Accountant with Stratford-on-Avon District Council.  He moved to Leicester City Council in 1993 where he was Senior Accountant and then Group Accountant.  After a spell as Principal Accountant back at Stratford-on-Avon, he moved on to West Oxfordshire District Council where he was to spend 8 years as Head of Corporate Finance, Director of Finance and finally Strategic Director (Resources).  Vic joined Wychavon in 2006 as Head of Resources. Vic was awarded an MBE in 2008 for services to local government and the communities of Worcestershire.