Programme Boards

Remit

Each programme of study has a Programme Board which reports to School Learning & Teaching and Recruitment Committee, with quality assurance issues and change requests to School Academic Quality Assurance Committee.

Programme Boards are responsible for day-to-day learning and teaching arrangements; quality assurance in relation to annual programme monitoring and periodic review; assessment and examinations; staff-student consultative committees in relation to learning and teaching issues. They also act as Boards of Examiners, at which time excluding student members.

Also, their remit is:

• To monitor student recruitment and retention;
• To maintain an oversight of the national and international developments and to bring this into new thinking for the programme;
• To receive and review Module Monitoring Reports and to pass any issues requiring attention to either the School Academic Quality Assurance Committee or School Learning & Teaching and Recruitment Committee as appropriate.
• To bring forward innovations and proposals for the development of the programme to the School Learning & Teaching and Recruitment Committee;
• To create and implement strategy to ensure ongoing innovation and development at the programme level;
• To develop strategies for supporting new and existing members of the programme board in their continued professional development;
• To maintain an overview and make recommendations to the School Learning & Teaching and Recruitment Committee on current and future staffing plans for the programme;
• To future plan for the programme's continued development.

Membership

• Programme Director (Convener)
• All members of the staff contributing to the learning and teaching of the programme
• Student representative(s) from the programme
• Other members as appropriate, agreed by the Programme Board, eg agency partners, User/Carer Group representatives.
• In attendance: Administrative Staff