At the meeting of Academic Standards Committee (ASC) held on 23 November 2018, the committee gave in-principle approval for GSA to develop an amended Programme Monitoring and Annual Reporting (PMAR) process. In the period since then, GSA has decided that the PMAR process will not be amended but the documentation used to support the process will be.

At the last meeting of ASC, GSA was invited to provide an update on developments with respect to PMAR. The attached paper provides a summary of developments and the changes to GSA PMAR documentation for the committee’s attention.

Academic Standards Committee is asked to note a summary of developments and the changes to GSA PMAR documentation as attached.

GSA.

None identified for the University.

The completed documentation will be submitted to a GSA Undergraduate and Postgraduate (UPC) Programme Monitoring and Annual Reporting (PMAR) meeting in November 2019 for consideration. A review of the effectiveness of the updated documentation will be undertaken in session 2019-20 and reported through GSA academic committees to ASC.

An Equality Impact Assessment has been carried out and actions identified to promote positive impact.