The paper details the response to the Validation Report for the PGCert/PGDip/MSc Countryside Management. The document outlines the response to the conditions and recommendations for validation. Three conditions were set by the validation panel and three recommendations made. The document submitted by SAC sets out the ways in which the development team for the course will meet the conditions and follow through with the recommendations. This document does not contain module descriptors but these are available from the development team upon request. They have been omitted here to save space.

It is considered that the course development team has addressed the recommendations and met the conditions outlined in the Validation Report.

That the Committee note the information contained in the document.

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No additional resource implications identified.

Timescale of submission of reports to ASC may be revised.

None identified.