Academic Administration Division
Academic Administration Division enquiries number: 01865 (2)70014
Fax: 01865 (2)80411
Email: secretary.faculties@admin.ox.ac.uk
Website: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/ac-div
Postal address: Academic Administration Division, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD.
Deputy Registrar: Mr Michael Sibly
PA to the Deputy Registrar: Miss Ann Cordeaux
The Academic Administration Division (AAD) is one of the largest units within UAS, and covers most aspects of academic administration, including planning and resources, educational policy, administrative support for the student career from admission to graduation, and centrally managed student services such as counselling and careers. The AAD also includes the four divisional offices, the Academic Services and University Collections (ASUC) Secretariat, and the Continuing Education Secretariat. The AAD is involved in the development of strategies and policies for approval by Council and other major University bodies across a wide area, and operates in close partnership with academic and administrative staff throughout the collegiate University.
The AAD is headed by the Deputy Registrar, Michael Sibly. He reports to the Registrar and works closely with the five functional Pro-Vice-Chancellors, the four Heads of Division, and a wide range of academic and administrative staff throughout the collegiate University.
Profile of the Deputy Registrar
Michael Sibly read History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and began his administrative career in the British Civil Service, working in the Department for Education and Science. He joined the University in 1983, and has worked in a variety of posts in central and departmental administration. From 1991-93 he was seconded to the then new Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in Bristol, and was closely involved in the changes which took place in the early 1990s in the funding and organisation of UK higher education. He was secretary to the Commission of Inquiry into Oxford’s governance and structure in 1994-97 and, from 1998-2005, was head of the University’s Planning and Resource Allocation section, with particular responsibility for internal planning and resource allocation, managing relationships with HEFCE, and management of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). He took up his current post in January 2006.
He is a Fellow of St Anne’s College.
