At the meeting of Academic Standards Committee (ASC) held in May 2019, the committee considered the report and action plan of the Periodic Review of Postgraduate Research held at GSA on 6 September 2018. It was noted that the various matters referred to in the action plan would be monitored by relevant committees at GSA during session 2019-20.

It was noted that the following points in the report were not reflected in the recommendations and action plan and ASC requested that GSA provide an indication of how progress on these matters was to be monitored:

• Point 2.4: Training and development available for PhD supervision had been found to be not fit for purpose;

• Point 3.4: This referred to a new Code of Practice for Supervisors that was ‘in the pipeline’; and
• Point 3.5: This recorded the intention to introduce supervisory training sessions for all new supervisors.

The attached paper ‘Response to Further Feedback from University of Glasgow Academic Standards Committee’, provides an update on the above matters. A final update on recommendations will be provided to the January 2020 meeting of ASC.

Academic Standards Committee is asked to note the action taken with respect to the above matters.

GSA.

None identified for the University.

As outlined in the paper.

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