At its meeting on 24 March 2017, Academic Standards Committee received the responses to the recommendations arising from the Periodic Subject Review of Scottish Literature. ASC has requested updates on Recs 2 and 6 to be submitted to the September meeting and Recs 5 and 8 in 12 months.

• Recommendation 2: ASC noted reference to the GTA Working Group set up by the School of Critical Studies and requested a report on issues identified, and progress made, by this group to be submitted to the September 2017 meeting of ASC.
• Recommendation 6: It had been suggested that a University regulation was blocking study abroad opportunities. The response from Senate Office indicated that no such regulation had been identified. It was suggested that the problem may have been associated with Scottish Literature courses which spanned two semesters, meaning that one-semester study abroad opportunities were problematic. ASC requested a response from the subject area clarifying the issue, for the September 2017 meeting of ASC.

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

As identified in the report.

No direct resource implications have been identified

As outlined.

No specific implications identified, although the School should continue to embed consideration of equality and diversity in all its procedures and prov