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
5
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.
6
NRC strongly recommended the Faculty develop a system consistent with University
policy for the calculation of honours.
MBT suggested investigating how Melbourne
University calculates assessment grades.
7
There was no progress in considering participation in Erasmus Mundus.
4.
ADMINISTRATION OF RESEARCH IN MASTER’S DEGREES DRAFT
Appointment of Examiners and Assessors and the Examination Process
Responsibilities of the Academic Unit
4(ii)
“For dissertations or research projects with a value of between 30 and 80 points”…
Committee agreed should be “90” points.
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The policy states that the examiners and assessors reports be forwarded to the
Postgraduate Committee who must recommend the final results and overall degree
to the Academic Head.
Approval of Research Topics, Appointment of Supervisors, Monitoring of Research,
Extensions
Responsibilities of the Academic Unit
4
MBT suggested not all students might get availability to resources and students need
to make the Faculty aware which language they require resources in.
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Completion of Requirements
3c
Taught Masters
The committee discussed tuition fees for students with time extensions.
The committee agreed that information about “Administration of Research in Master’s
Degrees” should be made more available.
NRC to put forward this committee’s suggestions
as discussed above.
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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