University of East Anglia and University of Essex
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS SUFFOLK
JOINT ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
1 December 2010
There will be a meeting of the UCS Joint Academic Committee on Wednesday 1 December 2010 from 14:00 to 16:00 in the Boardroom on the 6 th floor of the UCS Waterfront Building, UCS Ipswich
General business 1 Introduction and Announcements
For approval
2 Minutes of Previous Meeting (Paper JAC/10/71)
To note 3 Chairs’ Report (Paper JAC/10/72)
For information 4 Update on UCS strategic plan (Paper JAC/10/73)
UCS Provost
For information 5 Update on UCS restructuring (Paper JAC/10/74)
UCS Provost
For approval 6 New course proposals
UCS Bury St Edmunds a) FdSc Electrical Engineering (Nuclear); FdSc Mechanical Engineering
(Nuclear) (Paper JAC/10/75a)
UCS Great Yarmouth b) BA (Hons) Arts Practice (progression route) (Paper JAC/10/75b)
UCS Ipswich c) PGCert / PGDip/MA Arts Practice in Education (Paper JAC/10/75c) d) CertHE / DipHE / BSc (Hons) Bioscience (Paper JAC/10/75d) e) PGCert/PGDip/MA Childhood and Youth Studies (Paper JAC/10/75e) f) PGCert / PGDip /MSc Health and Wellbeing (Paper JAC/10/75f) g) PGCert / PGDip / MA Learning and Teaching; PGCert Higher Education
Practice (Paper JAC/10/75g) h) PGCert/PGDip/MA Managing Arts Practice (Paper JAC/10/75h) i) PGCert / PGDip / MA Marketing (Paper JAC/10/75i) j) PGCert/PGDip/MSc Regenerative Medicine (Paper JAC/10/75j) k) PGCert / PGDip / MSc Science of Healthy Ageing (Paper JAC/10/75k)
UCS Lowestoft l) BEng / BEng (Hons) Operations Engineering (progression route) (Paper

For information
For information
JAC/10/75l)
7 NSS results 2010 (Paper JAC/10/76)
8 Student retention and achievement 2009/10 (Paper JAC/10/77)
For information
For approval
To note
9 UCS Staff Development Strategy (Paper JAC/10/78)
10 Proposal for the introduction of periodic review (Paper JAC/10/79)
11 Core responsibilities of Learning Network Centres in delivering HE
Summary of approach at each centre (Paper JAC/10/80)
To note
Items in Section B contain recommendations which will be deemed to have been approved at the meeting unless members of the Committee ask for them to be discussed. Any member of the
Committee may ask for an item from Section B to be moved to Section A by contacting the Secretary,
Kay Thompson (kmthom@essex.ac.uk) before 5pm on Monday 29 November 2010.
These agenda papers can be found online at http://www.essex.ac.uk/partners/JAC/agenda.aspx.
For approval
12 QAA activity update a) QAA Collaborative Provision Audit report (Paper JAC/10/81) b) QAA Integrated Quality and Enhancement Review update
UCS Executive Dean (Academic Development)
13 Revalidation proposals
UCS Bury St Edmunds a) CertHE / DipHE / BA / BA (Hons) English and History (Paper
JAC/10/82a)
UCS Great Yarmouth b) CertHE / FdA Creative Music (Paper JAC/10/82b)
UCS Ipswich c) PGCert Employment Law (Paper JAC/10/82c) d) CertHE / DipHE / BA (Hons) Event / Tourism / Hospitality / Leisure
Management (Paper JAC/10/82d) e) PGDip Human Resource Management (formerly PGDip Personnel
Management) (Paper JAC/10/82e) f) MA Human Resource Strategy (Paper JAC/10/82f) g) PGCert / PGDip / MA Leadership and Service Innovation (formerly
Leadership and Innovation in Health and Social Care) (Paper
JAC/10/82g) h) CertHE / DipHE / BA (Hons) Photography (Paper JAC/10/82h) i) DipHE / BA (Hons) / BSc (Hons) Psychology, Sociology and Youth
Studies joint routes (Paper JAC/10/82i)

For approval
UCS Lowestoft j) BA (Hons) Design (Paper JAC/10/82j)
Multi-centre provision k) FdSc Electrical Engineering; FdSc Electronic Engineering; FdSc
Mechanical Engineering (UCS Bury St Edmunds and UCS Great
Yarmouth) (Paper JAC/10/82k) l) CertHE / FdA Hospitality and Event Management (UCS Bury St
Edmunds and UCS Great Yarmouth) (Paper JAC/10/82l) m) DipHE / BSc (Hons) Psychology and Sociology (UCS Bury St Edmunds and UCS Ipswich) (Paper JAC/10/82m)
14 Validation and revalidation reports
UCS Ipswich
FdA Health Care Practice (End of Life Care) and CertHE Health Sciences
(Mammography) (Paper JAC/10/83)
For approval 15 Course discontinuation
UCS Bury St Edmunds a) FdSc Automotive Engineering (Paper JAC/10/84a) b) BA (Hons) Education (Post-Compulsory) (Paper JAC/10/84b) c) FdA Health and Social Care (Paper JAC/10/84c)
UCS Ipswich d) PGCE/CertEd (Lifelong Learning Sector) / PTLLS / CTLLS (Paper
JAC/10/84d) e) BA (Hons) Film and Media Studies (Paper JAC/10/84e) f) BA (Hons) Interior Design (Paper JAC/10/84f) g) BSc (Hons) Psychology and Business Management (Paper JAC/10/84g)
UCS Lowestoft h) FdA Holistic Therapies (Paper JAC/10/84h) i) FdA Personal Training with Sports Massage Therapy (Paper JAC/10/84i)
Items in Section C are for information only. Any member of the Committee may ask for an item from
Section C to be moved to Section A by contacting the Secretary, Kay Thompson
(kmthom@essex.ac.uk) before 5pm on Monday 29 November 2010.
These agenda papers can be found online at http://www.essex.ac.uk/partners/JAC/agenda.aspx.
For information 16 Chairs’ Action (Paper JAC/10/85)
For information 17 List of validated programmes 2010/11 (Paper JAC/10/86)
For information
For information
18 Enrolment update 2010/11 (Paper JAC/10/87)
19 Ofsted PGCE inspection reports a) Suffolk and Norfolk Primary SCITT (Paper JAC/10/88) b) Suffolk and Norfolk Secondary SCITT (Paper JAC/10/89) c) North East Essex Coastal Confederation Secondary SCITT (Paper

To note
For information
For information
For information
For information
JAC/10/90)
20 Update on response to UCS at Suffolk New College institutional review
recommendations (Paper JAC/10/91)
21 Annual report on the conduct of assessment boards (Paper JAC/10/92)
22 Annual report on complaints, appeals, academic misconduct and
professional misconduct/unsuitability (Papers JAC/10/93-96)
23 Report on 2010 graduation ceremonies (Paper JAC/10/97)
24 Summary of External Examiner appointments 2010/11 (Paper JAC/10/98)
For information 25 Updates to validation handbook for 2010/11 (Paper JAC/10/99)
For information 26 Validation and revalidation activity a) Update on response to 2009/10 validation conditions (Paper JAC/10/100)
For information
To note
To note b) Update on requirements tracking (2008/09 and 2009/10 events) (Paper
JAC/10/101) c) Schedule of validation and revalidation events for 2010/11 (Paper
JAC/10/102)
27 Report from the Policies and Procedures Working Group (Paper
JAC/10/103)
28 Report from UCS Academic Board
Minutes of the meeting held on 11 November 2010 (Paper JAC/10/104)
29 Dates of future meetings
Thursday 10 March 2011, 14.00 - 16.00, UCS Ipswich
Thursday 9 June 2011, 14.00 - 16.00, UCS Ipswich
Dr Kay Thompson
Academic Partnerships Manager
University of Essex
November 2010
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