Report of items considered at the last meeting of the Working Group held on Friday 14 May 2010.

ASC is invited to consider for approval the following:

From item 1, the proposal that once the new College structures are in place, the Working Group Convener and colleagues from the Senate Office should meet with Deans of Learning & Teaching to draw their attention to the programme approval guidance and ask them to ensure that this is sufficiently disseminated to colleagues involved in the approval process.

From item 2.1, the proposal that MRes degrees which:

1. included an award, including an exit award (e.g. Pg Certificate) comprised of taught credits; and/or
2. included taught credit for courses which would be delivered to cohorts of students, rather than by individual research supervision;

should be counted as taught degrees for programme approval and therefore submitted from Faculties to PAGs for approval.

ASC is invited to note the remaining items.

The Senate Office.

None identified requiring consideration by ASC.

Revisions to the programme approval process, including changes to documentation will be implemented for session 2010-11.

None identified.