Postgraduate Committee Law School
MINUTES of Meeting held
on Tuesday 13th November 2007 at 1pm
In the Boardroom
PRESENT:
Neil Campbell (Chair), Stephen Penk, Mary-Rose Russell, Mike Taggart, Megan Baker, Rick
Bigwood, Peter Watts.
IN ATTENDANCE:
Joanne Anderson.
1.
APOLOGIES:
Paul Rishworth, Michael Littlewood, Chris Nicoll, Peter Devonshire, Mike Gedye.
2.
MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING OF 9th October 2007
Minutes of 9th October 2007
approved as a true and accurate record of that meeting.
3.
MATTERS ARISING MEETING OF October 9th 2007
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MLS update.
SFP reported that MLS had been approved in principle by APC, and now
Faculty is required to submit an APO2 (which should be presented to the APC meeting later
this month).
SFP advised he would prepare the proposal for submission to this meeting.
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Calculation of honours.
NRC advised that, after discussing this with the Dean, it was
apparent that the Faculty’s system for calculating honours was consistent with University
policy.
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There was no progress in considering participation in Erasmus Mundus.
4.
ADMINISTRATION OF RESEARCH IN MASTER’S DEGREES DRAFT
The Committee considered this draft paper, and suggested several amendments. In particular, it was
thought that the paper overstated the responsibility on academic units to provide research students
with access to resources. NRC will make a submission to the Board of Graduate Studies accordingly.
5.
GUIDELINE ON LEADING RESEARCH REQUIREMENT
The committee remarked that bullet point two “should normally have supervised at lease one prior
doctoral candidate to completion;” is a little limiting in the Law Faculty.
NRC advised that he was happy with the draft. No other objections recorded.
6.
A.O.B. None.
There was no other business and the meeting closed at 1.40pm
Signed: Neil Campbell ……………………………………………………
Date:………………..
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