Agenda item

Report of the Chairman of the Academic Assurance Working Group. 

With the agreement of the Chairman, Governors considered a late report of the Chairman of the Academic Assurance Working Group on Academic Assurances and the following matters were noted :-

·         The Group had sought additional clarification from David Miller, External Examiner for the BA in Technical Theatre Arts programme, on his opinion of the standard of award for the programme.  Subsequently, he had issued a statement which clarified that he considered the standards to be equivalent to or higher than elsewhere.

·         The Group advised the Board that the academic assurances had been met sufficiently and that the Principal should be authorised by the Board to make the necessary academic assurances on its behalf.

RESOLVED – That the Board agreed that the academic assurances had been met sufficiently and that the Principal be authorised to make the necessary academic assurances on behalf of the Board.