| Description | Minutes of a Board of Studies established to review and formulate proposals for the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and to make recommendations to the appropriate committee of Senate; to monitor the content and delivery of the Certificate; to consider any matters relating to academic policy development and implementation relating to the Certificate, including those raised on the Board's own initiative and those referred to it from elsewhere; to take decisions on the progress of individual members of staff registered for the Certificate within, or notwithstanding, regulations; to consider recommendations from the Board of Examiners for members of staff registered for the Postgraduate Certificate and Associate Programme, and to acts as a Progress Board; and to consider and approve proposals for Associate Modules for the route to HEA Associate Membership
Membership consisted of a chair; the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Students and Quality); five independent members from each of the Colleges; one member from University College Birmingham; and representatives from Academic Practice and Organisational Development (APOD), formerly the Staff Development Unit
It reported to the Quality Assurance and Enhancement Committee
Internal evidence states that the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education was introduced at the University of Birmingham in 1999, and suggests that the Board of Studies existed before December 2008, as a previous meeting in May 2008 is mentioned. Its terms of reference were updated to accommodate the College structure which was imposed for the academic session 2008-2009
Minutes include records of the Board of Examiners which approved module grades for the Postgraduate Certificate and Associate Programme, considered mitigations and appeals, and looked at comments of external examiners. They also include records of the Participants Liaison Group which commented on aspects of the programme. The minutes include some module proposal forms for the Postgraduate Certificate, and discuss the management and operation of the programmes |