- Agenda
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A meeting of the Senate Business Committee will be held at 2.00 p.m. on Monday 13 January 2020 in Court Room, University Office
Rachael Bernard
Academic Registrar
(r.bernard@abdn.ac.uk)AGENDA
FOR DISCUSSION
1. Approval of the minutes of the meeting held on 13 November 2019 SBC19:20-07 2. Draft Agenda for the meeting of the Senate on 5 February 2020 SBC19:20-08
3. Nomination of Postgraduate Research Officers PGR School Officers have authority delegated via Senate to approve PGR requests for official amendments to degree programmes. This includes request such as: off-campus study; change to full-time or part-time study transfer of degree; extension of the write up period; suspension of supervised study.
The Committee are invited to approve the nominated PGR School Officers for academic year 2019/20 as follows:
- Biological Sciences: Alan Bowman
- Business School: Audrey Paterson
- Divinity, History & Philosophy: Jackson Armstrong
- Education: Liz Curtis, David Johnston
- Engineering: Jefferson Gomes
- Geosciences: Matteo Spagnolo
- Language, Literature, Film & Visual Culture: Andrew Gordon
- Law: Roy Partain
- Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition: Isobel Crane, Jerry Morse
- Natural and Computing Sciences: Ekkehard Ullner
- Psychology: Margaret Jackson
- Social Sciences: Andrew McKinnon
4. Senate Membership of Committees Following amendments to the composition of the Estates Committee (formerly the Capital Programme Management Committee (CPMC)) and the Digital Strategy Committee to include two elected members of Senate, the Senate Business Committee is invited to approve:
Amy Bryzgel as a member of the Estates Committee, and
Murilo da Silva Baptista as a member of the Digital Strategy Committee
The composition of both the above committees includes two elected members of Senate, further volunteers will therefore be sought.
FOR INFORMATION
5. Dates of meetings in 2019/20 The Committee is invited to note that the next meetings in 2019/20 have been scheduled as follows:
- Thursday 20 February 2020 at 10.00 a.m. in Committee Room 2
- Tuesday 14 April 2020 at 10.00 a.m. in Committee Room 2
- Remit
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Purpose
The Senate Business Committee has a primary role to agree Senate agendas. In order to engage Senate in open debate, the Senate Business Committee also identifies for each meeting of Senate at least one major strategic topic for discussion.
The Committee has delegated responsibility from the Senate to approve the appointment of Senate members or representatives to University Committees and the schedule for Senate elections
Remit
The primary role of the Senate Business Committee is to agree Senate agendas.
In order to engage Senate in open debate and to inform future policy and development by sub-committees for subsequent approval by the Senate, it has been agreed that the Senate Business Committee should identify at least one topic for discussion of a major strategic issue at each Senate meeting. This would not preclude such topics being included on the agenda ad hoc in response to, in particular, national consultations and major issues that emerged during the course of an academic year that the University should address.
The Senate Business Committee, in drafting Senate agendas, should also decide, as deemed appropriate whether an external speaker (e.g. from the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Executive, Universities Scotland, the Higher Education Academy) should be invited to address the Senate on a topic of current interest or debate within the HE sector.
The Senate Business Committee is also asked to determine the timing of consideration, by the Senate, of annual reports from the Senior Vice-Principal, the central Vice-Principals and the University Secretary.
- Composition & Membership
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Composition and Quorum
- The Senior Vice-Principal (Chair)
- University Secretary
- The Senate Assessors on the Policy and Resources Committee
- Eight elected members of Senate elected for a two year term of office
- The Chairs of the following Committees:
- University Committee on Teaching and Learning
- Quality Assurance Sub-Committee of UCTL
- Undergraduate Sub-Committee of UCTL
- Postgraduate (Taught) Sub-Committee of UCTL
- Research Policy Committee
- Dean of Graduate School
- President of the Students' Association
- AUSA Rep (nominated by Student President)
Quorum: 50%
Membership for 2019/20
- Karl Leydecker
- Steve Cannon
- Vacant – Senate Assessors on Policy and Resources Committee
- Ruth Taylor
- Kath Shennan
- Abbe Brown
- Kirsty Keizebrink
- Marion Campbell
- Graeme Nixon
- Alfred Akisanya (until September 2021)
- Iain McEwan (until September2021)
- Michelle Pinard (until September 2021)
- Amy Bryzgel (until September 2021)
- Scott Styles (until September 2021)
- Allan Sim (until September 2021)
- Neil Vargesson (until September 2020)
- Helen Martin (until September 2020)
- Cecilia Wallbeck
- Dariya Koleva
Clerk: Rachael Bernard
- Attendance
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Attendance Records - 2019/20
Membership 11 September 2019 13 November 2019 13 January 2019 20 February 2020 14 April 2020 Senior Vice-Principal and Chair
Karl Leydecker
Present Present Present University Secretary Caroline Inglis
Steve Cannon from 14 November 2019
Apologies Apologies Present President of the Students' Association Cecilia Wallback Apologies Present Apologies AUSA Representative Ondrej Kucerak Present Present Present Convener of the University Committee on Teaching and Learning Peter McGeorge
Ruth Taylor from 11 November 2019
Apologies Present Present Convener of the Quality Assurance Committee Kath Shennan Present Present Present Convener of the Research Policy Committee Marion Campbell Present Apologies Apologies Convener of the Undergraduate Committee Alison Jenkinson
Abbe Brown from 6 January 2020
Present Present Apologies Convener of the Postgraduate (Taught) Committee Ekaterina Pavlovskaia
Kirsty Kiezebrink from 6 January 2020
Present Present Present Dean of the Graduate School Graeme Nixon Apologies Apologies Present Elected Member of Senate Alfred Akisanya Present Present Present Elected Member of Senate Helen Martin Present Apologies Present Elected Member of Senate Scott Styles Apologies Present Apologies Elected Member of Senate Iain McEwan Present Present Present Elected Member of Senate Neil Vargesson Present Apologies Present Elected Member of Senate Amy Bryzgel Apologies Present Present Elected Member of Senate Allan Sim Present Present Apologies Elected Member of Senate Michelle Pinard Present Present Present Senate Assessor on Policy and Resources Committee Mirela Delibegovic Apologies Apologies - Senate Assessor on Policy and Resources Committee Vacant Clerk Dr Rachael Bernard Present Present Present - Minutes
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