Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Faculty Board

SSH06-A2

NOTICE OF MEETING

A Meeting of the Faculty Board will take place on Tuesday 14 November 2006 at 9.30 am in the Council Chamber, Administration Building 2.

AGENDA

1. Apologies for Absence

2. Business of the Agenda

Any member wishing to unstar an item is asked to notify the Secretary by midday on Monday 13 November 2006. Starred items will otherwise be taken without discussion.

Please note that those papers for items in Section B and C which are not circulated with this agenda will be found on the University Web pages linked to the following URL:

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/committees/ssh/index.html

3. Minutes (previously circulated)

SSH06-M1

To confirm and sign, subject to any amendment, the Minutes of the Meeting of the Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty Board held on 23 May 2006.

4. Matters Arising from the Minutes Not Appearing Elsewhere on this Agenda

SECTION A - Items for Discussion/Report

5. Constitution and Terms of Reference of the Faculty Board

SSH06-P19, SH06-P19a

To receive the constitution and powers of the Faculty Board and a briefing note for new Faculty Board members.

6. Faculty Business for 2006/07

To consider main Faculty business agenda items for 2006/07.

7. Dean’s and Associate Dean’s Reports

To receive reports from:

8.1 The Acting Dean (on behalf of the Dean)

8.2 The Associate Dean (Research)

SSH06-P20

8.3 The Associate Dean (Teaching)

SSH06-P21

9. Periodic Programme Reviews

9.1 SSH06-P22

To receive the periodic programme review report from the Department of Geography and to consider the Department’s response.

9.2 SSH06-P23

To receive the periodic programme review report from the Department of English and Drama and to consider the Department’s response.

10. Award of degrees (to be tabled)

To award Higher Degrees to candidates whose examinations have been conducted since the last meeting of Senate.

11. University’s Corporate Strategy 2006-2016

SSH06-P24 (electronically circulated prior to the meeting)

To consider the draft Corporate Strategy document for 2006-2016 for feedback to the Strategic Review Working Group.

SECTION B: Formal ‘starred’ items for Approval

*12. Associate Dean (Teaching) Action

To ratify actions taken by the Associate Dean (Teaching) in approving the following:

i. Waivers of Programme Regulations

ii. Appointment of Programme Boards

iii. Credit Transfers

Further details of the actions are available from the Faculty Board Secretary upon request.

SECTION C: Items for Information

*13. Appointment of Examiners of the University, External Examiners and External Programme Assessors

To note details of appointments made by the AD(T) are available from the Faculty Board Secretary on request.

*14. External Examiner Reports

To note that reports of External Examiner’s have been deposited with the Faculty Board Secretary and are available for consultation on request.

*15. Personal Titles

To note the award of personal titles and to offer the Faculty’s congratulations:

Professor A France (Professor of Social Policy Research, Department of Social Sciences, with effect from 25 September 2006)

Professor P Loucopoulos (Professor of Information Systems, Business School, with effect from 1 November 2006)

*16. Curriculum Sub-Committee

16.1 Changes to Programme Title/Awards

To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee will be recommending the following proposed programme title changes to Learning and Teaching Committee, prior to their meeting on 9 November 2006 (effective date shown in brackets):

MSc Physical Education to MSc Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (September

2007 entry)

MSc/PGDip/PGCert Social Research (Social Science) to MRes Social Sciences Research PGDip/PGCert Advanced Studies in Social Sciences Research (September 2006 entry)

PGCert Management (Sports Industries Federation) to PGCert Management (Federation of Sports and Play Associates) (September 2006 entry)

16.2 Major Changes to Programmes

To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee will be recommending to the Chair of Learning and Teaching Committee changes to the following programmes (effective date shown in brackets):

MA Art & Design (Studio Practice) (possibility of project module being undertaken in Loughborough or Singapore, from October 2006)

BA Fine Art (introduction of DIntS from 2007-08)

16.3 Discontinuation of Programmes

To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee will be recommending to Learning and Teaching Committee prior to their meeting on 9 November 2006 to discontinue the following programmes (proposed date of last intake shown in brackets):

MSc/PGDip/PGCert Security Management (Singapore) (2001/02)

*17. Staff/Student Committees

To note that reports of the Staff/Student Committee meetings had been deposited with the Faculty Board Secretary as follows:

Department of Geography 10 May 2006

Postgraduate Diploma in Management:

(Thomas Cook) 17 May 2006

Department of Social Sciences (Undergraduate) 10 May 2006

Department of English and Drama 17 May, 18 & 25 October 2006

Business School, Postgraduate Programmes

in Management 20 September 2006

*18. Prizes

SSH06-P24

To note the winners of the Sir Robert Martin Faculty (SSH) Prize 2005/06.

*19. Membership

SSH06-P25

To note the membership of the Faculty Board for the session 2006-2007.

*20. Representation on Other Bodies

SSH06-P26

To note representation of the Faculty on other bodies.

21. Any Other Business

*22. Date of Next Meeting

The next Faculty Board meeting will take place prior to a Directorate meeting on Tuesday 22 May 2007.

Author – Ms S J McKinley
October 2006