University of Glasgow

Academic Standards Committee

A meeting of the Academic Standards Committee will be held on Friday 20 May 2016 at 9:30 AM in the Melville Room

Mrs Lesley Fielding
Clerk to the Committee

Agenda

 

Starring Items

This agenda will operate with a system of starred items. Only items highlighted with a (*) will be discussed. At the beginning of the meeting members will be given the opportunity to request that any unstarred items are included in the Committee's discussion. 

 

1. *Minutes of the Meeting held on Friday 15 April 2016 (ASC 15/71) 

 

2. *Matters Arising 

 

2.1 PGT College Annual Monitoring Summaries for 2014-15: College of Science & Engineering (ASC/2015/35.3) 

Oral update. 

2.2 Report from the Meeting of Academic Regulations Sub-Committee held on 10 December 2015 (ASC/2015/36) 

Operation of discretion in the award of joint degrees - oral update. 

2.3 Report from the Meeting of Academic Regulations Sub-Committee (ASC/2015/48) 

School of Life Sciences Responses to External Examiner Comments on Viva (ASC 15/72) 

3. *Convener's Business 

 

Section A: Items for Discussion 

 

4. *Proposed Changes to the Role of External Examiner in Discretionary Decisions on Assessed Material from Periods of Study Abroad (ASC 15/73) 

 

5. *Proposed Changes to Generic Regulations for Taught Postgraduate Degrees (ASC 15/74) 

 

6. *Annual Report on External Examiners’ Reports – Session 2014-15 (ASC 15/75) 

 

7. *Periodic Subject Review 

 

7.1 Full Review Reports 

7.1.1 Archaeology (ASC 15/76) 

7.2 Six-Month Update Reports 

7.2.1 Economics (ASC 15/77)

7.2.2 Theatre, Film & Television Studies (ASC 15/78) 

 Section B: Items for Formal Approval

 

8. *Items Referred from The Glasgow School of Art 

 

8.1 Major Programme Amendment Proposal - MLitt Fine Art Practice (ASC 15/79) 

 

8.2 Degree Regulation Amendment - MSc Visualisation (ASC 15/80) 

 

8.3 Report from the Periodic Review of the School of Design (ASC 15/81) 

 

 Section C: Items for Noting or Information

 

9. Items Referred from The Glasgow School of Art 

 

9.1 Update on Recommendations from the Periodic Review of the Mackintosh School of Architecture – Session 2014/15 (ASC 15/82) 

 

9.2 Update on Programme Approval and Major Programme Amendment Recommendations – Session 2014/15 (ASC 15/83) 

 

10. Item Referred from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) 

 

10.1 Proposal to Transfer Delivery of the BA Sports Coaching & Development at SRUC’s Ayr Campus to the University of the West of Scotland’s (UWS) Ayr Campus (ASC 15/84) 

 

11. Report from Semester 1 and Semester 2 Programme Approval Groups (ASC 15/85) 

 

12. Dates for Next Session 

Friday 30 September 2016 (10.00 a.m. start)

Friday 25 November 2016

Friday 27 January 2017

Friday 24 March 2017

Friday 19 May 2017 

13. Any Other Business 

 

14. Date of Next Meeting 

The next meeting of the Academic Standards Committee will be held on Friday 30 September 2016 at 10.00 a.m. in the Melville Room. 

 

Created by: Mrs Lesley Fielding