| Description | Minutes of a committee established for the 2005-2006 academic session to strategically review the University's current and future portfolio for academic provision and activity, guided by institutional strategic direction and interest, with reference to contexts including academic quality, resources and markets; competitor provision and activity; and drivers for demand. It was able to commission, monitor and exploit appropriate data analyses, studies, or external advice relevant to the Universitys' portfolio, and was responsible for determining a framework for the strategic selection and approval of additions, revisions or withdrawals in the portfolio of academic provision appropriate to institutional strategic direction. It made recommendations to the University Strategic Management Committee and to Senate regarding the University's portfolio development strategy and policy; the portfolio of academic programmes and awards; coverage of subjects, fields and disciplinary areas; student recruitment profile; and academic links with external institutions
It developed links with academic Schools, and guided the work of the Programme Approval and Review Group (formerly known as the Programme Approval Review Panel). It informed and was informed by the Portfolio Development Forum which also contributed to the evolution of University portfolio development strategy and policy
Membership consisted of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Quality and Students) as chair; Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Resources and Planning); Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Transfer); the Deans; the Director of Marketing Services; and the Director of Planning
It reported to the University Strategic Management Committee and to Senate. It considered the views and recommendations of other groups including committees of Senate; Heads of Academic Programmes; Heads of Budget Centres; Deans Fora; the MBA Committee; the University Planning Advisory Group; the Internationalisation Strategy Group;the Learning and Teaching Facilities Group; and the Academic Regulations Maintenance Group
It provided advice to the University Strategic Management Committee (later University Executive Board) on guidelines and criteria to allow the viability, relationship with existing provision and strategic importance of all programmes, both existing and proposed, to be assessed. It was also responsible for developing criteria to identify programme to be given consideration for being withdrawn. Committee to establish a procedure by which all the programmes provided by a School could be assessed
The Committee considered statistics relating to ethnicity and disability once each year
Minutes include copies of reports of the Programme Approval Review Group, and records of the Portfolio Development Forum. The Forum's prime role was to make recommendations to the Portfolio Development Committee regarding the future development of programmes and academic activities offered by individual Schools of the University. It looked at historical trends, University's ranking by subject area, recruitment, and completion rates
The Committee minutes include papers on the evaluation of programmes; discussion of the strategic framework for the management of postgraduate research students; postgraduate research strategy; School metrics and marketing in connection with portfolio development, selectivity and strategy discussions with Schools; collaborative provision arrangements including validation; and discussion about selectivity in the University's portfolio of programmes, taking into account applications, retention rates, results, the National Student Survey [NSS] teaching assessment, employment and entry standards, and comparisons with Russell Group average
No minutes after May 2008 have been transferred to the University Archives. It is possible that the Committee was dissolved and its responsibilities absorbed by another committee following the reorganisation of the University into a College structure for the 2008-2009 academic session |