| Summary: | This document brings together four research papers designed to assist building up a picture of the Cathedrals Group of church-related universities as they were at the start of the Covid pandemic.
Their original purpose was to form the backcloth for a final chapter of a book on the history of the church universities. However, an additional purpose evolved, which was to provide information and statistics to help those planning for the future of the institutions themselves. Accordingly, each piece of research has already been made available to the vice-chancellors and officers of the Cathedrals Group. The purpose of this document is to make the material more widely available to those who are more generally involved in supporting and planning for the future of the institutions and to those who have a responsibility for their foundational purposes.
The papers are as follows:
1. An examination of the legal articles of association of the universities from the perspective of their status as church-related institutions.
2. An assessment of their three bedrock activities of teacher training, academic learning, and theology and religious studies, using current statistics from the Higher Education Statistics Agency and the Office for Students.
3. A review of how the universities feature in the Sunday Times Good Universities Guide, with a particular focus on their social inclusion.
4. A review of how the universities feature in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework
As the research is restricted to England, the University of Wales Trinity St David, although a member of the Cathedrals Group, has not been included when the analysis has been related to overall national figures for England.
The texts of the four papers follow the summaries. They have been edited since originally distributed in earlier 2021 and brought together into this single document. However, they have been left largely in their original formats’
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