announced that Trainor was the preferred candidate to succeed Frances Cairncross as rector. The College announced his formal pre-election in October 2013. Trainor took office on 1 October 2014, during the College’s 700th anniversary year. The Rector is Head of the College with oversight of all its activities. He and Exeter’s 48 Fellows constitute the Governing Body (chaired by the Rector). The Governing Body is responsible for Exeter’s staff, its student population of c.325 undergraduates and c.200 postgraduates, its finances and its buildings. A key current project is the completion – scheduled for summer 2016 – of Exeter’s Cohen Quadrangle, on Walton Street in central Oxford, the College’s largest single physical expansion in its 701-year history. Trainor is also governor of the Royal Academy of Music and the Museum of London (as of June 2014). Restructuring at King's College London, 2010 and 2014 During his tenure at King's College London, the institution announced a restructure of its funding. The plans had a negative reception in the press and in the educational field. The University and College Union (UCU) and the British Medical Association (BMA) voiced their concerns about the restructuring at King's College London. The situation at King's attracted national press coverage. Trainor responded by highlighting the pressures facing UK Universities and giving an interview to The Times about the challenges of funding cuts and his belief that further higher education funding cuts would risk serious damage to the sector. Further, the institution's decision to close the Division of Engineering in 2009, was criticised for risking charges of "reckless academic vandalism". However, King’s has developed a research and teaching programme in Biomedical Engineering, assisted by a grant (under the programme of Centres of Excellence in Medical Engineering) from the Wellcome Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The university's choice of cuts was the subject of a House of Commons Early Day Motion in March 2010: "That this House notes the proposal by the Executive of King's College London as part of its budget review process to abolish the Chair of Palaeography, the only one of its kind in the United Kingdom; further notes the fundamental importance of palaeography to a broad and interdisciplinary scholarly community; considers that without the development of palaeographic skills, millions of documents would be rendered inaccessible, thus depriving the nation of its full historical legacy; and therefore urges King's College London to