Space and Monitoring of Space
Dear University of Northampton,
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please provide answers to the following:
1. Do you monitor attendance of users of rooms including the physical number of individuals occupying a room for an event?
2. How do you monitor attendance of users of rooms?
a. If it is via an attendance monitoring system please state which one you are using?
3. If you monitor the usage of space:
a. What percentage of your planned or centrally recorded teaching activity takes place?
b. What percentage is recorded as not having taken place?
4. If you monitor the actual levels of occupation of general teaching rooms (Classrooms) what is the average percentage of recorded occupation within the rooms during general Undergraduate teaching weeks.
5. What percentage of teaching rooms do you monitor?
6. How many teaching rooms do you have by the following categories:
- Lecture Theatre
- Classroom
- Computer Lab
- All other specialist teaching spaces
i. Please specify what these Specialist Teaching Spaces are.
a. How many of these rooms are managed centrally or locally (i.e. within a college of faculty)?
7. Do you have a timetabling policy?
a. If you have a timetabling policy do you state the hours that teaching will take place between?
b. Do you differentiate between “Day or Core Hours” and “Evening or Non-Core Hours” and if so what are these hours?
8. What percentage of your teaching is held during the hours of:
a. 9:00 am – 5:00 pm?
b. 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm?
Yours faithfully,
Mary Greencup
Ref: RMU/FoI(E20.06)/1356/FoIreply28Mar2018
28^th March 2018
Dear Ms. Greencup
I am writing in acknowledgement of your request for information dated
27^th March, 2018, which has been received by the University and passed to
me as the University’s Freedom of Information Officer for action.
Your request for information has been assigned the number referenced above
and will be treated in accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act. Under the provisions of the Act the University has until
27^th April, 2018 to respond to your request. We will, however, try our
best to provide you with an answer before this deadline.
Yours Sincerely
Maggie Peach
ppPhil Oakman
Records Manager
Maggie Peach
Records Management Officer
Holdenby 12
University of Northampton
Boughton Green Road
Northampton
NN2 7AL
Tel: 01604 893503
Email: [email address]
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Ref: RMU/FoI(E20.06)/1356/FoIreply27Apr2018
27^th April 2018
Dear Ms. Greencup
I write in response to your request for information dated 27^th March,
2018, received by the University and passed to me as the University’s
Freedom of Information Officer for action.
In response to your question one:
1. Do you monitor attendance of users of rooms including the physical
number of individuals occupying a room for an event?
No – the University does not currently have an accurate means to track or
monitor room usage.
In response to your question two:
2. How do you monitor attendance of users of rooms?
a. If it is via an attendance monitoring system please state which one you
are using?
The University currently uses SEAtS for attendance monitoring purposes.
However, this system has proved to be unproductive in returning accurate
attendance/room usage data for the production of utilisation reports.
In response to your questions three, four and five:
3. If you monitor the usage of space:
a. What percentage of your planned or centrally recorded teaching activity
takes place?
b. What percentage is recorded as not having taken place?
4. If you monitor the actual levels of occupation of general teaching
rooms (Classrooms) what is the average percentage of recorded occupation
within the rooms during general Undergraduate teaching weeks.
5. What percentage of teaching rooms do you monitor?
This information is not held by the University – please see our
explanation as given in our response to your question two above.
In response to your question six:
6. How many teaching rooms do you have by the following categories:
- Lecture Theatre - The University has 15 Lecture Theatres
- Classroom - The University has 74 classrooms
- Computer Lab - The University has 30 Computer Labs
- All other specialist teaching spaces – The University has 100 Specialist
Teaching spaces
a. Please specify what these Specialist Teaching Spaces are.
Our Specialist Teaching spaces consist of:
o Health Skills Labs
o Drama / Dance Studios
o Art Studios
o Art Workshops
o Science Labs
o Tannery
o Media Studios
o Design Studios
o Music Studios
o Fashion Studios
o Police Skills / Training rooms
o Engineering Labs
o Sports Hall
· Sports Labs
b. How many of these rooms are managed centrally or locally (i.e. within a
college of faculty)?
All of our Specialist Teaching spaces are managed locally but are
initially timetabled collaboratively between the Faculty or Subject Area
in question and Central Timetabling.
In response to your question seven:
7. Do you have a timetabling policy?
Yes – the University does have a timetabling policy.
a. If you have a timetabling policy do you state the hours that
teaching will take place between?
Yes – we do state the hours that teaching will take place between.
b. Do you differentiate between “Day or Core Hours” and “Evening or
Non-Core Hours” and if so what are these hours?
The University’s core teaching hours are from 9:00am to 6:00pm. We do not
have set hours for the evening.
In response to your question eight:
8. What percentage of your teaching is held during the hours of:
a. 9:00 am – 5:00 pm?
94% of the University’s teaching takes place between 9:00am and 5:00pm
b. 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm?
6% of the University’s teaching takes place between 5:00pm and 9:00pm
I hope the University has made its response in a clear and constructive
manner; however, if you consider the University has handled your request
unfairly you are entitled to follow the process set out in our standard
advice on the University's Freedom of Information Complaints Procedure
which is available online at:
[1]University FoI complaints procedure
Yours sincerely
Maggie Peach
ppPhil Oakman
Records Manager
Maggie Peach
Records Management Officer
Holdenby 12
University of Northampton
Boughton Green Road
Northampton
NN2 7AL
Tel: 01604 893503
Email: [email address]
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