The two enclosed papers are:

1. The Report of the Institution-led Review of Education Programmes in the Agriculture and Business Management Department at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), incorporating revalidation of the following programmes:

• MSc Agricultural Professional Practice
• MSc Organic Farming
• BSc Agriculture
• BA Rural Business Management; and

2. The response of the Programme Teams to the conditions set by the validation panel.

Academic Standards Committee (ASC) is asked to note that SRUC expects conditions (and also any recommendations that impact on the fulfilling of conditions) to have been addressed prior to submission to ASC for approval. Other recommendations (from revalidation, and also those from institution-led review) will be taken forward by SRUC through their internal committee structure and reported to the university in their annual report.

With regard to the above programmes, ASC is asked to note that all conditions have been fully resolved to the satisfaction of the Convener of the validation panel.

Academic Standards Committee is asked to approve the revalidation of the following programmes at Scotland’s Rural College for six years, with effect from session 2018-19.

• BSc/BSc (Honours) Agriculture
• BA/BA (Honours) Rural Business Management
• PgDip/MSc Agricultural Professional Practice
• PgDip/MSc Organic Farming

SRUC.

No resource implications have been identified for the University.

Revalidation of the above programmes will take effect from session 2018-19.

As the revalidated programmes are not new or amended, Equality Impact Assessments are not required.