| Description | Minutes of a committee which replaced the Course Board of Studies for the Degree of BEng and Management and the Joint Board of Engineering, Commerce and Management (minutes of a Joint Board of Engineering and Commerce and Social Science at SCI56 which cover the period 1965 to 1982)
It was established for the start of the academic session 1982-1983. Membership consisted of the Vice-Chancellor and Principal (ex officio); and representatives from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Commerce and Social Science, and Faculty of Arts, and from the University of Aston. Student representatives from each of the four years of the courses administered by the Joint Board of Engineering, Commerce and Management would also be invited to join the committee.
Its terms of reference were to exercise, in relation to the degrees of B.Sc & B.Com and B.Eng & Man. and to the degree of B.Sc in those subjects which are by consent of the Senate administered by the Joint Board of Engineering Commerce and Management such powers as are normally vested in Faculty Boards, and in particular to approve or recommend approval of degree regulations; to determine course syllabuses; to appoint internal examiners and recommend appointment of external examiners; to report to the Senate on the progress of the B.Eng & Man course and to the Faculties involved on matters relating to the B.Sc and B.Sc & B.Com courses; and to constitute itself as the Board of Examiners for the courses in subjects administered by the Joint Board and to consider recommendation concerning examination results.
Minutes discuss course regulations, course administration, and amendments and revisions to courses. They include copies of yearly reports to the University Grants Committee reviewing the B.Eng & Man. degree course which give details about student intake, course administration, and course development, and contain information about the award of endowed prizes; the composition of the Tutorial Committee; student exchanges; and admissions to language options in B.Eng & B.Com degree programmes.
Minutes B consist of reserved business and contain lists of students, lists of examination results, and information about the appointment of examiners and the mitigations process
Minutes of the meetings held on 18 February 1983 and 16 May 1983 discuss the need to make reductions in demands made on the Field Course and Vacation Grants and Hardship Fund due to the difficult economic situation within the University, and nationally. Minutes of the meeting held on 26 October 1983 refer to the concept of periods of overseas training for B.Eng & Man. students and consider funding. Minutes of the meeting held on 5 December 1984 include the report of the Working Party on the titles of Joint Board Degrees
Minutes of the meeting held on 23 June 1988 discuss proposals for a student/staff liaison sub-committee of the Joint Board of Engineering, Commerce and Management. There is further discussion about staff-student liaison within minutes of the meeting held on 17 October 1988 and these record the suggestion that student representatives could be invited to meetings of the Tutorial and Steering Committee for open business
Minutes of the meeting held on 3 May 1990 refer to discussion between the Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce of arrangements for the management of the joint degrees following the dissolution of the Joint Board. The last meeting was held on 18 September 1990. It is not clear from the minutes what these arrangements were, but there would presumably have been some kind of joint body or formal links between Engineering and Commerce in order for both Faculties to continue to administer this joint degree |