UCML Executive Committee reorganisation proposal
Current
Officers
Chair
Hon. Secretary
Hon. Treasurer
Proposed
Position/remit
Steering Group
Chair
Vice Chair – Research
Vice Chair – Language (and
Intercultural) Education
Vice Chair – Engagement and
external communication ?
Hon Secretary – Constitution, Internal
Communication and Membership
Liaison
Hon Treasurer (reports to but does not
join meetings of the Steering Group)
Liaison responsibilities
HEFCE, HELG, LLAS, APPG, Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland
Modern Humanities Research Association, AHRC, ESRC, British Academy and Members/Associate
Members on Research and REF issues
DfE, SSAT, ALL, CiLT, recruitment, admissions and WP agendas, changes in statutory curricula
impacting on HE, Links into Languages, Routes into Languages, Institute of Linguists, bodies involved
in Initial/continuing teacher education.
Responsibility for oversight of continuity from statutory sector through HE and variety of HE provision
(including technology based/distance learning HE)
CiLT, THE, press various, campaigns (eg Speak to the Future), Chambers of Commerce, CBI, careers
services, Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI), British Council; Relevant International bodies eg
European Language Council & Council of Europe
LLAS re administration of membership, meetings, communications with membership inc. mailing lists
(Jiscmails etc) and website;
LLAS re Executive Committee membership/elections etc
HEI member institutions re membership benefits
LLAS re finances, bank
Members
Area Studies
Members
Area Studies
English Language
Teaching (ELT)
Institution-wide
Language Teaching
English Language Teaching
Language Teaching
Languages for
Business and
Enterprise
Literary Studies
East Asian Studies
Middle Eastern
Studies
Culture and Society
French Studies
Merged with above
Discontinue – issues picked up by Vice Chair Engagement
Language Teaching/Language
Centres
UK Council for Area Studies Associations (UKCASA), University Association for Contemporary
European Studies (UACES), Society for Latin American Studies etc
BALEAP, English UK
IWLPs, Association of University Language Centres AULC
(Responsible for championing technology-enhanced language teaching / distance learning provision in
HEIs as well as on campus provision and provision for specialists in other disciplines)
Discontinue – issues built into range of subject association liaisons
East Asian Studies
Japan Foundation, British Association of Japanese Studies, British Association for Chinese Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
BRISMES
Discontinue – issues built into range of subject association liaisons
French Studies
Association for French Language Studies, Association of the Study of Modern and Contemporary
France, Association of University Professors of French, Society for French Studies, Institute of
Hispanic and Luso
Studies
Italian
Hispanic and Lusophone Studies
Germanic Studies
Germanic and Low Countries Studies
Slavonic and East
European
Linguistics
Slavonic and East European Studies
Translation and
Interpreting
Initial Teacher
Training
UCML Northern
Ireland
UCML Scotland
UCML Wales
Ex officio
LLAS Subject
Centre
ALL
CILT
3 officers
20 elected
members
3 ex officio
members
Italian Studies
Germanic and Romance Studies
Association of Contemporary Iberian Studies, Association of Hispanists, Society for Latin American
Studies, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Association of British & Irish Lusophonists
Association for the Study of Modern Italy, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Society for
Italian Studies
Association for Low Countries Studies in GB, Association for Modern German Studies, Association for
the Study of German Politics, Conference of University Teachers of German, DAAD, Goethe Institute,
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University Teachers of German
British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies
Linguistics
University Council of General and Applied Linguistics (UCGAL); British Association of Applied
Linguistics, Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Philological Society
Discontinue – issues to be picked up by Vice Chair Engagement
Discontinue – issues to be picked up by Vice Chair Language Education
Northern Ireland
NI Universities, devolved government bodies
Scotland
Wales
Ex officio
LLAS Subject Centre
UCML Scotland, Scottish Universities, SCF, devolved government bodies
Welsh Universities, HEFCW, devolved government bodies
By invitation
By invitation
5 (6) strategic executive officers
14 elected members
Though liaison also through Chair/Vice Chairs as appropriate
Though liaison also through Chair/Vice Chairs as appropriate
2 ex officio members
Dependent on the future of LLAS Subject Centre