The attached paper is the report from the GSA Singapore/Singapore Institute of Technology Collaborative Review which was held on 4 October 2016.The GSA School of Design at GSA will provide a brief report explaining how the conditions and recommendations have been, or will be, met to the March 2017 meeting of GSA Academic Council.

[Since September 2012, GSA has delivered Years 3 and 4 of its Bachelor of Arts (Hons) programmes in Communication Design and Interior Design in Singapore, in partnership with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) and Temasek Polytechnic (TP). The programmes enable Diploma students from one of Singapore’s Polytechnics to progress from a Diploma to a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree.

Years 3 and 4 at GSA Singapore are equivalent to Years 3 and 4 of the same programmes delivered at GSA Glasgow. Students studying in Singapore undertake the same programme of study as at GSA Glasgow, with resources and equipment according to GSA specifications, but also have access to the additional specialist resources, equipment and workshop of TP and students graduate with the same award as students based at the Glasgow campus.

The current session (2016/17) is the fifth year of operation of the partnership with SIT. The original Collaboration Agreement with SIT set out that both parties would conduct a review of the scope and nature of the arrangement for the delivery of the GSA undergraduate programmes under the Agreement prior to the date of enrolment of the fifth intake of SIT-GSA students.]

Academic Standards Committee is invited to consider the above report.

[ASC is invited to note External Examiners’ comments (minute 3.18)].

GSA.

None for the University.

The GSA School of Design at GSA will provide a brief report explaining how the conditions and recommendations have been, or will be, met to the March 2017 meeting of GSA Academic Council.

Not applicable.