The enclosed paper is a request from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) to extend the existing validation arrangement for the three programmes within its Engineering, Science and Technology Department. If approved, the extension will delay the revalidation of these programmes from the current session until session 2019-20. The programmes were last reviewed and revalidated in session 2013-2014, with the revalidated provision introduced in session 2014-15. SRUC considers that the extension will allow it to progress various strategic developments thereby enabling a better informed revalidation of the programmes to take place in session 2019-20 (see paper for further details). The request was approved by the University of Glasgow – SRUC Joint Liaison Committee at its meeting on 23 November 2018.

Academic Standards is asked to approve a request from SRUC to extend the existing validation arrangement for the undernoted programmes to enable their revalidation to take place during session 2019-20, rather than session 2018-19:

• BSc Agricultural Bioscience (delivered at SRUC's Riverside (Ayr) Campus)

• BSc Applied Animal Science (delivered ad SRUC's Edinburgh Campus)
• BSc Renewables and Environmental Technology (delivered at SRUC's Riverside (Ayr) Campus)

SRUC.

No resource implications have been identified for the University.

As identified in the paper.

No equality implications have been identified with the request.