SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

CONFIRMED MINUTES of the Third meeting of 2005/2005 of the Computing and Mathematical Sciences School Board held on Wednesday 16th March 2005 in Room 353 at 3pm, Queen Mary, Maritime Greenwich Campus.

PRESENT:

Liz Bacon (Chair) Tony Ackroyd Alan Butler Mohammed Dastbaz Bob Dolden Ryan Flynn Tony Mann Kevin Parrott Frank Razaghzadeh Anders Murday (Student Rep) Ray Stoneham

5.3.1 Apologies for Absence Chris Bailey Phil Clipsham Ed Galea Miltos Petridis Rodney Sue Zelijko Sevic (Business School)

05.03.2 Minutes of the previous Meeting of the School Board and Matters Arising. All minutes were confirmed from the previous two meetings as a true and accurate record.

05.03.3 Matters Arising All matters and actions have been dealt with from the 9.02.05 School Board and from 8.12.04 School Board apart from the following:

Action: LB to appoint a new member of staff for the School Board Committee.

05.03.4 Targets and Actions from the ARPD 1 The agenda paper summarised the different actions from the ARPD. The committee decided to refer each of the actions to the relevant School committees as follows:

Quality and Standards – School Learning & Quality Committee Staffing – School Board Research – School Research Committee Portfolio Planning – School Board Resource Requests – School Management Committee Collaboration – School Learning & Quality Committee

Action: Chairs of the relevant committees to process the actions.

05.03.5 School Budget KP explained the School and departmental annual budgets. The prediction is that we will go over budget on part-time teaching hours. However, it was expected that the income from the service teaching from the School of Health and Social Care would cover this deficit and this would put the budget back on target. LB asked KP to follow this up.

Action: KP to contact the School of Health and Social Care regarding the service teaching income.

05.03.6 Portfolio updates: 1. The foundation degree in Creative Business and IT will hopefully start at West Kent College in September 2005. 2. The Final year BSc (Hons) Computing will be offered at Oshwal College Kenya. 3. APSC had not yet given approval for East London College Leytonstone and London Academy of Management Sciences Ilford to proceed. The School had been asked to explain the UK collaborative strategy. 4. MSc changes were discussed. BD stated that he needed requests from MD and MP by the 6th April regarding the new and changed titles.

Action: MD and MP to let BD have the relevant requests for our MSc programmes by April 6th.

5.3.7 Minutes from School Health and Safety Committee FR explained that Lauren Quinton was no longer involved with the Health and Safety and that Sean Doran had taken over from her. FR mentioned that Amrik was concerned that some staff had not completed and returned their DSE forms, and LB asked FR for a list of the staff who had not returned their forms. FR also, requested one of the heads to be present at the next meeting.

05.03.8 Minutes from the Learning and Quality Committee BD mentioned that the BCS response to the 90 day accreditation had still not been received and that he would follow up with the BCS.

Action: BD to follow up BCS response to accreditation.

BD also, mentioned that UK part of the Bahrain QAA overseas audit had gone well and that there would be a QAA visit to Bahrain in May. Discussion also, took place regarding the uploading of projects on the Web site.

05.03.9 Minutes from the Research Committee

2 LB asked that the remaining two Research Committee meetings should be scheduled a.s.a.p. LB asked KP to schedule dates for the next two meetings.

Action: KP to schedule dates for the Research Committee meetings.

KP discussed various issues in the minutes that had been discussed at the Research meeting and TM thought that the wording in item [08.7.0] should be altered so that actual names were not used, and the committee agreed.

Action: KP to change wording in [08.7.0]

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