At its meeting on 20 May 2016, the Academic Standards Committee received the Report of the Periodic Subject Review of the School of Design, The Glasgow School of Art. This report details the responses and the progress made to date in implementing the recommendations.

It is considered that the Panel’s recommendations have been given appropriate consideration, however a number of the recommendations have not been addressed in full. ASC is asked to consider if the recommendations below require follow-up reports in 6 month’s time. GSA has provided assurance that all actions will be completed by the end of August 2017 and an update submitted to Academic Standards Committee in November 2017.

Recommendation 1: In acknowledging the local/global and innovative and collaborative characters of the individual programmes, the Review Panel recommended that the Head of School, in conjunction with senior staff, articulated a clear overall narrative for the School of Design and established an effective mechanism for communicating this within and outwith the School.

GSA advises that work to progress this recommendation is underway.

Recommendation 2: The Review Panel recommended that the School of Design link with the Head of Learning and Teaching to undertake a mapping of all Intended Learning Outcomes against assessment criteria, external criteria and course documentation.

GSA advises that this recommendation remains open.

Recommendation 8: The Review Panel agreed that the School should identify a systematic narrative for research-teaching linkages.

GSA advises that this recommendation remains open.

Recommendation 10: Given the ambition to grow student numbers by 25% over 2015-2018, in order to aid transparency and support communication, a diagram to visualise the current and planned growth of the School should be developed for wider dissemination to staff and students'.

GSA advises that this recommendation remains open.

Academic Standards Committee is asked to consider the adequacy of the responses and the progress made against recommendations.

As identified in the report.

No resource implication have been identified for the University.

As outlined in the report.

GSA has an Equality and Diversity policy in place.