UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
BOARD OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
AGENDA
There will be a meeting of the Board of Undergraduate Studies at 2.00pm on Monday 28th
October 2002 in the Council Chamber, Senate House.
Dr J W Nicholls
Registrar
1.
Terms of Reference
TO REPORT:
(a)
That the Terms of Reference of the Board are as follows (revisions since 2001/2002
being shown in italics)
(i)
To consider and make recommendations to the Academic and Quality
Standards Committee on issues relating to the assurance and enhancement
of the quality of learning and teaching across all undergraduate provision.
(ii)
To make recommendations to the Senate, after consultation with academic
departments and the Faculty Boards, on all matters affecting undergraduate
study in the University including strategic considerations.
(iii)
To scrutinise all new undergraduate course proposals and report to the
Academic Quality and Standards Committee on consideration of such
proposals.
(iv)
To consider reports from the Faculty Boards on the periodic reviews of
undergraduate courses.
(v)
To advise the Academic Quality and Standards Committee on matters
relating to examinations in undergraduate courses.
(vi)
To advise the Academic Quality and Standards Committee on the role of
internal and external examiners for undergraduate degrees.
(vii)
To report to the Academic Quality and Standards Committee annually on the
issues raised in reports by external examiners.
(viii)
To consider submissions from the Faculty Boards for non-standard
examination methods, including seen papers, open-book examinations and
reading times, and to make recommendations to the Academic Quality and
Standards Committee.
(ix)
To exercise delegated powers on behalf of the Academic Quality and
Standards Committee in approving, on personal grounds, minor variations in
the arrangements for the sitting of undergraduate examinations by individual
students.
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(x)
(b)
To consider all matters affecting admissions practices and policy and make
recommendations to the Academic Standards and Quality Committee.
That the Senate, at its meetings on 4 July 2001 and 2nd October 2002, approved the
terms of reference under (a) above and also resolved:
That the responsibility for consideration and approval of four-year undergraduate
Masters courses lie primarily with the Board of Undergraduate Studies.
2.
Membership 2002/2003
TO REPORT:
That the Senate, at its meeting of 2nd October 2002, resolved that the membership of the
Board of Undergraduate Studies for the academic year 2002/2003 be as follows:
Chair (a Pro-Vice-Chancellor)
Two full-time members of the academic staff
from each of the Faculties or Arts, Science
and Social Studies appointed by the Senate:
Arts
Science
Social Studies
One full-time member of staff from the
Faculty of Medicine appointed by the Senate
One member of the Board of Graduate
Studies appointed by the Senate
The Chairs of the Undergraduate Studies
Committees of the Boards of the Faculties of
Arts and Social Studies and the Chair of the
Sub-Faculty of Science
Arts
Science
Social Studies
Two members nominated by the Union of
Students
3.
First Appointed
2002
Professor J Jones
2002
2001
2002
2002
2002
2002
2001
Professor M Whitby
Professor R Burns
Professor T Bugg
Dr G Martin
Mr R Leng
Professor A Phizacklea
Professor S Petersen
2002
Dr J Burrows
2001
2001
2001
2002
Professor A McFarlane
Dr K Flint
Dr R Naylor
Mr T Kwok
2002
Mr A Reiss
Reserved Agenda
See separate agenda (attached) for academic members of the Board only.
4.
Minutes
TO CONSIDER:
The minutes of the last meeting of the Board held on 6th June 2002 (copy attached).
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5.
Matters Arising on the Minutes
(a)
New Degree Courses (minute BUGS30/01-02(a)&(b) refer)
TO REPORT:
That the Senate, at its meeting of 3rd July 2002, approved the Board’s
recommendations under the following minutes:
(i)
(ii)
(b)
87/01-02(d)(ii) – MChem in Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry with Industrial
Training as set out in Paper SFS50/01-02.
87/01-02(d)(iii) – BA in Law and Business Studies (3 year) (QD) and BA in
Law and Business Studies (4 year) (QD) as set out in Paper UFSS97/01-02.
Periodic Review of Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering (minute
BUGS31/01-02 refers)
TO REPORT:
That the Academic Quality and Standards Committee, at its meeting of 12 th June
2002, resolved:
(c)
(i)
That the report of the Periodic Review of Computer Science and Computer
Systems Engineering, as set out in Paper BFS29/01-02, be approved.
(ii)
That it was the view of the Committee that the Department’s response to the
report, as set out in paper BFS30/01-02, was inadequate as a statement of
how the Department intended to address the issues and recommendations
raised in the report.
(iii)
That the Committee approved the recommendation of this Board that the
formal response to the Review report from the Department of Computer
Science be revised to include further details of the steps that will be taken to
implement the recommendations of the report and a suggested time frame in
which they will be carried out.
Regulation 9.3 (minute BUGS32/01-02 refers)
TO REPORT:
That the Senate, at its meeting of 3rd July 2002, recommended that Regulation 9.3
governing the degree of BSc and undergraduate Masters’ degrees in science (except
for Engineering) be amended to allow the Boards of Examiners to require to withdraw
students who have failed necessary laboratory work, as set out in Paper SFS76/0102.
(d)
Regulation 9.5 (minute BUGS33/01-02 refers)
TO REPORT:
That the Academic Quality and Standards Committee, at its meeting of 12 th June
2002, recommended that Regulation 9.5 governing the degree of BA (leading to
Qualified Teacher Status) be amended as set out in Paper UFSS95/01-02.
(e)
Appeals Regulations (minutes BUGS34/01-02 refers)
TO REPORT:
That the Academic Quality and Standards Committee, at its meeting of 12 th June
2002, recommended that the amendment to the appeals process for undergraduate
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and postgraduate courses to take into account the Human Rights Act and related
legislation, as set out in Paper BUGS8/01-02, be approved.
6.
Chair’s Action
TO REPORT:
That the Chair, acting on behalf of the Board, has approved a proposal from the Warwick
Business School for the addition of reading time to the module Forecasting (IB3210), (Paper
BUGS07/02-03, copy attached).
7.
Chair’s Business
8.
New Degree Course
TO CONSIDER:
The recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Social Studies, at its meeting of 16th
October 2002, that the proposal from the Centre for Lifelong Learning for a new Foundation
Degree in Post-Compulsory Education and Training, be approved as set out in paper
UFSS14/02-03, copy attached, subject to amendments so that the Learning Outcomes are
‘demonstrated’ rather than ‘developed’ (section 9) and clarification is provided of the
monitoring and evaluation processes, to include arrangements for the establishment of an
SSLC (section 13)..
9.
Composite Reports of the Undergraduate Staff-Student Liaison Committees
TO CONSIDER:
The Composite Reports of the Undergraduate Staff-Student Liaison Committees (2001/2002)
from:
10.
(a)
The Faculty of Arts (Paper BFA23/01-02, copy attached),
(b)
The Faculty of Science (Paper SFS75/01-02, copy attached),
(c)
The Faculty of Social Studies (Paper UFSS20/02-03, copy attached).
Undergraduate Admissions
TO CONSIDER:
11.
(a)
A proposal from the Leicester-Warwick Medical School to waive the English
Language requirements of the University for overseas applicants who have
appropriate dentistry qualifications (Paper BUGS08/02-03, copy attached).
(b)
A proposal from the School of Engineering to consider students from the Hong Kong
Institutes of Vocational Education for direct entry into year two of their undergraduate
programmes (Paper BUGS09/02-03, copy attached).
Report from the Sub-Faculty of Science
TO CONSIDER:
A report from the 16th October 2002 meeting of the Sub-Faculty of Science (Paper
BUGS10/02-03, copy attached) concerning its recommendations regarding:
(a)
The timing of the first meetings of the Sub-Faculty of Science and the Board of
Undergraduate Studies.
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(b)
12.
A proposal from the School of Engineering to discontinue BEng and MEng degrees in
Electrical Engineering after the 2003 intake (Paper SFS07/02-03, copy attached).
The format for the transfer of marks
TO RECEIVE:
An oral report from the Secretary to the Board on the issue of the format for the transfer of
marks between departments.
13.
Warwick Skills Programme
TO CONSIDER:
A proposal for the future development of the Warwick Skills Programme (Paper BUGS11/0203, copy attached).
14.
Any Other Business
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