Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities 

Faculty Board

SSH02-M2

Minutes

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Minutes of the Thirty-Third Meeting of the Faculty Board held on Tuesday 21 May 2002.

Members:

Professor P H Roberts (Chair), Dr K M Armour, Mr J Base (ex-officio) (ab), Mr J Barker,

Professor M Bell, Professor S J H Biddle, Mr A Bunkum (ab), Ms A Carter (ab), Mr J Costello (ab), Mr D N Deacon (ab), Dr H G Denton, Dr H P Drake, Professor P Golding, Dr A Gould, Mr R Hamilton (ab), Professor C Hanson (ab), Mr D R Johnson (ab), Professor T Kavanagh,

Dr R A Kay (ab), Professor M King (ab), Professor D Kirk (ab), Dr J Leaman (ab), Mr P G Lewis,

Mr W P J Maunder, Professor T Mills, Dr J Mottram, Mr G Murdock, Mr K Pond (ab),

Dr C D Rhodes, Dr S P Rice (ab), Mr J S Smith, Professor M H Smith (ab), Miss R Stubbings, Professor D J Wallace (ab), Professor T G Weyman-Jones

Apologies for absence:

Mr J Base (ex-officio), Mr A Bunkum, Mr J Costello, Mr D N Deacon, Mr R Hamilton,

Professor C Hanson, Mr D R Johnson, Dr T A Kay, Professor M King, Professor D Kirk, Mr K Pond, Professor M H Smith, Professor D J Wallace

By invitation: Mr David Lilley, Mr C Spendlove

Present: Ms L M Dutton

In attendance: Ms S J McKinley


13.Business of the Agenda

The Board NOTED that item 15 was unstarred.

14. Minutes
SSH02-M1

The Minutes of the Thirty-Second Meeting of the Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty Board, held on 5 February 2002, were CONFIRMED and signed by The Dean.

15. Dean's and Associate Deans' Reports

15.1 The Dean

(i) Congratulations were extended to LUSAD for their prizes from the Bradford Textiles Society.

(ii) The financial position for the Faculty was, at present, encouraging; it was currently in the middle of a budgetary review. The Faculty's remit was to keep income moving upwards and to continue to recruit research, overseas and premium priced students. Research applications in particular should be kept as high as possible.

(iii) The Board NOTED that the QAA's higher education institutional auditing for Loughborough University would take place in Spring 2004.

15.2 The Associate Dean (Research)

(i) The Faculty's applications for 2002 had increased. Developmental funding had been secured for studentships to home students. Eighty percent of applications for studentships were from the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities.

(ii) Plans for reorganising postgraduate training programmes were progressing. It would be another year before the ESRC would invite departments to accept the ESRC kitemark.

15.3 The Associate Dean (Teaching)

(i) The Board NOTED that while the Faculty had some reservations about the benefits of DIS and DPS Awards with Distinction, the students would welcome it.

(ii) The Board NOTED that as part of the development strategy HEFCE had allocated funding for special educational and disability needs.

(iii) The Board NOTED that the intra-faculty recruitment position for October was still unknown.

(iv) The Board NOTED that the PDQ Team had set up a working group to investigate the rules and regulations with respect to plagiarism, in particular examining the new procedures relating to minor and major offences. The Board recognised that a widening participation factor would be required in these discussions. The Board AGREED that students should be made more aware of the meaning and outcome of plagiarism.

16. Award of Degrees

The Board CONFIRMED the award of Higher Degrees to candidates whose examinations had been conducted since the last meeting of Senate.

17. Joint Supervision of Research Degrees

(SSH02-P5)

The Board CONSIDERED a proposal concerning closer collaboration with the Markfield Institute of Higher Education (MIHE) in respect of research student supervision.

The Board CONFIRMED that they supported the proposal in principle but initially not to validate. Clarity was sought about whether the proposal applied to home and/or international students and which departments would be involved. Although Professor Presley had been appointed as overall

co-ordinator of the scheme there was some concern as to how long he, or any other named person, would be able to undertake that duty.

It was AGREED that there were good reasons for collaboration with the institution as the MIHE specialist Islamic range was wider than at Loughborough. It was AGREED that students should register at an appropriate department in accordance with the normal Loughborough University admission requirements and regulations and have a named supervisor at Loughborough.

Co-supervisors would need to know the extent of student attendance. If appropriate, students could be encouraged to pursue the New Route PhD option.

18. Destination Statistics for 2001 Graduates

(SSH02-P6)

The Board RECEIVED a report from Mr David Lilley on the destination statistics for the Faculty's 2001 Graduates.

The Board NOTED the following:

19. Draft Strategic Plan

The Board CONSIDERED the draft University Strategic Plan and RECOMMENDED that the Dean would receive written comments from Faculty members to be presented to the Executive Management Group.

ACTION: Members of the Faculty Board, Dean

20. School of Aeronautical, Automotive and Systems Engineering

(SSH02-P7)

The Board RECEIVED and AGREED to support the paper on the proposal to establish a School of Aeronautical, Automotive and Systems Engineering.

21. Annual and Periodic Programme Reviews

(SSH02-P8)

The Board RECEIVED a report from the Associate Dean (Teaching) on the process of annual and periodic programme reviews.

The Board NOTED the new processes involving the arrangements for Annual and Periodic Reviews. A few corrections were required on the Periodic Review of Programmes, summary sheet as follows:

22. Regulations Governing Assessment

(SSH02-P9)

The Board RECEIVED and CONSIDERED the paper on the proposals for amendments to award regulations.

The Board COMMENTED on the following:

ACTION: Further comments should be sent by Faculty Board members to the Director of Registry Service, copied to the Faculty Board Secretary.

23. Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA)

(SSH02-P10)

The Board RECEIVED and CONSIDERED the Guide for Departments, setting out implications for learning, teaching and assessment arising from the Special Education Needs and Disability Act (SENDA).

The Board COMMENTED that although the implications of the Act were understood there was concern about the increase of duties in order to meet the training and contractual obligations. The Board supported the paper but asked to seek responses from Departments as to how they see this being implemented. Responses should be lodged with the Dean by the next Directorate on 27 June 2002.

ACTION: Heads of Department, Dean

24. Loughborough University Development Trust

(SSH02-P11)

The Board CONSIDERED the distribution of Development Trust prizes between the departments of the Faculty.

The Board AGREED with Option 2 of the paper.

25. Prize Assessors

(SSH02-P12)

The Board APPROVED the appointments to the Prize Assessor panel in respect of the Sir Robert Martin Faculty (SSH) Prize but NOTED that Professor Linden Peach would no longer be available to sit on the panel.

26. Extension of Term of Office: Associate Dean (Teaching)

The Board NOTED that Mr Peter Maunder would be serving an additional year as Associate Dean (Teaching).

27. Staff/Student Committees

(SSH02-P13)

The Board NOTED the development by the Library staff of two research discovery tools, Metalib and SFX.

28. Curriculum Sub-Committee

28.1 New Programme Proposals

The Board NOTED that Curriculum Sub-Committee had recommended the following new programme proposals to Learning and Teaching Committee, subject to certain requirements being resolved to the satisfaction of the AD(T), prior to the meeting of Learning and Teaching Committee on 6 June 2002:

28.2 Major Changes

The Board NOTED that Curriculum Sub-Committee had recommended changes to the following programmes to Learning and Teaching Committee, prior to the meeting of Learning and Teaching Committee on 6 June 2002:

28.3 Discontinuation of Programmes

The Board NOTED that Curriculum Sub-Committee had recommended to Learning and Teaching Committee on 6 June 2002 that the following programmes be discontinued:

29. Associate Dean (Teaching) Action

The Board NOTED the action of the Associate Dean (Teaching) in approving the following:

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

30. Staff/Student Committees

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

Department of English and Drama

23 January, 27 February, 4 March 2002

Department of PE Sports Science and Recreation Management

21 November 2001, 20 February 2002

Teacher Education Unit

6 February 2002

Loughborough University at Peterborough

20 February 2002

Business School (Undergraduate)

21 February, 21 March 2002

Professional Programmes in Management (2001 Intake)

5 March 2002

Professional Diploma in Management (HEA)

7 March 2002

Social Sciences (Undergraduate)

13 March 2002

Professional Diploma in Management (FKI)

15 March 2002

Professional Certificate in Management (Sports Industries Federation)

21 March 2002

Professional Certificate in Management (Thomas Cook)

9 April 2002

MSc Management/MSc International Management/MSc Marketing & Management

24 April 2002

31. Senate

The Board NOTED that the Minutes of the 348th Ordinary Meeting of Senate held on 6 March 2002 were available on the University Web page.

32. Reports of Committees

The Board NOTED that reports of the following Committees were available on the University Web pages:


  1. Any Other Business
  2. Ruth Stubbings REPORTED to the Board that the funding allocated to the Library had fallen short by £100,000. The deficit would have to come out of the information budget resulting in cuts in journal budgets with departments cancelling between 12 to 20 journals. This would inevitably damage the capacity of postgraduates to conduct research.

  3. Provisional Calendar of Meetings 2002/2003

The Board NOTED the provisional calendar of meetings for 2002/2003 as follows:


Author - Sally McKinley
May 2002
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