The next meeting of the Academic Board will be held on Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 3pm in the Management
Seminar Room (MX 001).
Tea and coffee will be served outside the room from 2.30pm onwards.
Members are reminded that the items of business in Parts C and Part D are starred. This means that those items will
be taken as read, and approved or noted as appropriate, without discussion, unless any are unstarred by members
contacting the Secretary by 5pm on Friday, 20 March 2015.
Those papers not attached will be circulated shortly. Late papers circulated after the deadline for unstarring will be
unstarred.
1. MEMBERSHIP
1.1 To receive a list of members of the Board. AB/15/01
2. MINUTES
To confirm the Minutes of the last meeting held on Wednesday 10 December 2014 (M
14/111 - M 14/193).
Attached
3. MATTERS ARISING
3.1 To consider any matters arising, not elsewhere on the agenda.
3.2
To note, the examination of incomplete theses was considered at the Research Degrees
Programme Committee on 29 January 2015, and it was agreed that (minute RDPC/15/009)
‘where students who initially submitted an incomplete or unfinished thesis which one or
more examiners refused to examine resubmitted the thesis, one of the following outcomes
could be given at the (de facto) second submission at the end of the viva:
a) The candidate has satisfied them unconditionally in the examination for the PhD
degree; or
b)
The candidate is required to make minor amendments to the thesis specified by
them within three months; or
c) The candidate is required to make moderate amendments to the thesis specified by
them within a period of up to nine months; or
d)
The examiners determine that the student has not satisfied them in the
examination.’
3.3 To note that Steven Kendrick, Head of Centre for Professional Studies, will sit on Academic
Board in attendance, rather than as a representative member.
3.4 To note that procedures will be drawn up by the Academic Board working group to support
the operation of Academic Board, as these currently do not exist. These will cover, in the
first
instance, elections (including announcements of upcoming vacancies; voting procedure
and process; timescales; announcements of successful candidates; how announcements will
be communicated) and alterations to membership.