School Academic Quality Assurance Committee

Remit

Reporting to School Board, the role of School Academic Quality Assurance Committee is:

To review Programme Monitoring Reports and to feed thematic issues raised into the School Learning and Teaching Development Plan;
To action the guidance given in the College Academic Quality Assurance manual;
To ensure that programmes operate within the framework, policies and criteria of the School, College and the University;
To make recommendations on issues of quality enhancement to the School Board;
To recommend to School Board programme changes and programme approvals;
To consider nominations of external examiners for approval by Dean and School Board.

Convener (nominated by School Board) - Neil Taylor (until March 2013)
Up to 6 School academic representatives - currently:
- Christine Barber (until July 2014 (2nd term))
- Dr Sheila Henderson (until July 2014 (2nd term))
- Richard Ingram (until July 2014 (2nd term))
- Lynn Kelly (until July 2013)
- Dr Gaye Manwaring (until July 2014 (2nd term))
- Lorraine Syme-Smith (until July 2013)
One external representative - currently Kay Wilkie, School of Nursing & Midwifery (until 31 July 2012)
One student representative
In attendance:
- School Secretary - Julie Christie
- School QA/Marketing Officer - Susan Lamb
- Module Bank Coordinator - Sheila Braid
- Office Managers (Qualifying and Workbased) - Sheila Braid and Lynette Mitchell