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29 November 2006 AB73.M King’s College London Academic Board http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/governance/acboard THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE ACADEMIC BOARD HELD ON WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2006 Principal Professor Rick Trainor, Chair1 Vice-Principals Professor Phil Whitfield (Students) - Deputy Chair Professor Keith Hoggart (Arts & Sciences) Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman (Research) Heads of School Biomedical & Health Sciences Professor Bob Hider Law Professor Raymond Plant Humanities Professor Ann Thompson Medicine Professor Anne Greenough The Reverend the Dean Rev Dr Richard Burridge Head of Administration Mr Ian Creagh The President of the Students' Union Mr Daryn McCombe Chief Academic Auditor Professor Iain Campbell Chairs of subcommittees Academic Staff [the Principal] Admissions Dr Kim Wolff College Board of Examiners Dr Vicki Aitken External Affairs [Vice-Principal (Arts & Sciences)] Graduate School Professor Vaughan Robinson Information Strategy Professor Jeremy Ward (Deputy Chair) Research [Vice-Principal (Research)] Student members (1 undergraduate and 1 postgraduate from each group of Schools) Arts & Sciences Schools (undergraduate) Ms Emily Rowe Arts & Sciences Schools (postgraduate) Mr Alexander Fisher Health Schools (undergraduate) Ms Rachel Walsh Health Schools (postgraduate) Dr Watcharaphol Kamnerdsiri School members: Biomedical & Health Sciences Dental Institute elected junior: Dr Maria Psatha elected junior: Dr Richard Foxton elected junior: Dr Sue Jickells appointed: Dr David Radford 1 Due to the site visits of the panel considering ’Best Practice for Best Health’ applications involving the College (see Minute 130), the Principal was not able to Chair all of the meeting and the Vice-Principal (Students) was in the Chair at the beginning and the end of the meeting. The Minutes reflect the order of the agenda but not the order of the items as taken at the meeting. ….\AB73M.doc 1/8 Humanities Nursing and Midwifery appointed: Dr Tom Pink elected junior: Miss Carole Jackson elected senior: Ms Mary Crawford Institute of Psychiatry appointed: Ms Julie Bliss elected junior: Miss Corinne Prescott Physical Sciences and Engineering Law elected senior: Professor Andrew Pressley elected junior: Dr Jonathan Garton appointed: Professor Andrew Jones Medicine Social Science and Public Policy elected junior: Dr Martin Mueller elected senior: Dr John Gearson appointed: Professor Brian Holden-Reid In attendance: Committee Administrator Ms Shilla Pindoria Deputy College Secretary & Academic Registrar Mr Brian Salter Deputy Director of Personnel Mr Keith Hart Deputy Registrar, QA&AA Ms Hilary Placito Director of External Relations Ms Caroline Usher Principal's Executive Officer (Policy and Planning) Ms Ruth Gowling Senior Assistant College Secretary Miss Katharine Lewis (Secretary) Senior Assistant Registrar, QA&AA Ms Nicola Sainsbury VP KCLSU (Representation) Miss Jo Williams Apologies were received from: Professor Robert Lechler, Mr Harry Musselwhite, Professor Nairn Wilson, Dr George Szmukler, Professor Anne-Marie Rafferty, Professor Mike Yianneskis, Professor Christopher Dandeker, Professor Gill Nicholls, Professor Tom Pitt-Ford, Dr Clare Pettitt, Professor Elizabeth Kuipers, Professor Blackburn, Dr Mark Green, Dr Robert Dover, Ms Fran Brogan CONGRATULATIONS Noted: the Board’s congratulations to the Principal on his election as President of Universities UK. The Principal would succeed Professor Drummond Bone (Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool) on 1 August 2007 and hold the post of President for two academic years 2007-08 and 2008-09. He would be reducing his other commitments outside the College so that he could continue, during his time as UUK President, to focus on King’s. (128) MINUTES Approved: the Minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday 25 October 2006 (AB72.M). (129) CHAIR’S BUSINESS NHS Site visits Noted: that a key part of implementing the government’s Best Research for Best Health proposals was to establish Research Centres within the country’s leading NHS and University ….\AB73M.doc 2/8 partnerships to drive progress on innovation and translational research in biomedicine and NHS service quality and safety. Two site visits in respect of bids submitted by the College’s NHS partners were taking place today. (130) HEFCE funding for strategic subjects Reported: that the College was exploring whether it was eligible for any of the recently announced additional funding from HEFCE to support high cost and vulnerable science subjects. (131) University of London update Reported: that the Heads of College had recently approved an interim report on constitutional reform which would clearly give the Colleges a more significant role in the governance of the University of London, and permit Colleges to use their own degree awarding powers. It was expected that this report would be endorsed by the University of London Council in December. (132) New Dean for the Institute of Psychiatry Reported: that Professor Peter McGuffin had been appointed Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry from 1 January 2007 for three years. (133) Noted: the Academic Board’s thanks to Dr George Szmukler for his services as Dean and to the College in general; during his tenure the links between the IoP and the rest of the College had developed and strengthened. From January, Dr Szmukler would be leading a health and society network in the College. (134) ITEMS FOR APPROVAL Academic Board quinquennial review Approved: the terms of reference for the quinquennial review and the membership of the proposed working group (AB06/07:27) noting that the Academic Registrar would be working closely with the Working Group. (135) Noted: that the last review of the Academic Board had seen significant changes to the conduct of the Board, with a reduction to the members, the disestablishment of its Standing Committee, and the introduction of open meeting; (136) that Board members would be consulted as part of the review, the Working Group to determine the method of that consultation. (137) College Marketing Literature Policy Approved: a College Marketing Literature Policy (additional paper AB06/07:42). (138) Change of departmental name Approved: for recommendation to the Council, a change of department name in the Institute of Psychiatry viz Health Services Research Department to the Health Service and Population Research Department (additional paper AB06/07:43). (139) ….\AB73M.doc 3/8 SUB COMMITTEES OF THE ACADEMIC BOARD Minutes Considered: the Minutes of the sub committees of the Academic Board as follows: • College Board of Examiners 27 September (CB49.M) • College Teaching Committee 11 October (CTC 55M) • External Affairs Committee 29 September (EAC10.M) • Graduate School Committee 13 September (GSC 1M) • Student Affairs & Welfare Committee 26 October (SAWC.7M). (140) • Noted: that the energy and activity of the Graduate School from both the administrators and the academics involved was gratifying. (141) Further noted: the Academic Board’s best wishes for a speedy recovery to the Chair of the College Teaching Committee who was currently undergoing hospital treatment. (142) Annual Reports Considered: annual reports from the subcommittees as follows: • Academic Audit (AB06/07:28) • Admissions Committee undergraduate equality and diversity report (AB06/07:29) • College Board of Examiners (AB06/07:30) • College Research Committee (AB06/07:31) • Postgraduate Research Students Committee (AB06/07:32) • Information Strategy Committee (AB06/07:41). (143) Noted: in respect of Academic Audit, that Schools had not always been diligent in responding to requests for information and this had slowed down the audit process; (144) in respect of the College Research Committee, that 2005-06 had been a good year for research income, in particular for new grants and contracts. Information for the first quarter of 2006-07 indicated that the momentum was being sustained. (145) Approved: in respect of the Admissions Committee undergraduate equality and diversity report, the recommendations set out in the report, with particular note of the work being undertaken by the Committee on benchmarks. (146) Further noted: that Shilla Pindoria, Secretary to the Admissions Committee, the Information Strategy Committee, and the External Affairs Committee, was leaving the College to pursue a career in the commercial sector. The Academic Board thanked her for all her hard work for the Board and its committees. (147) STRATEGIC PLAN Considered: for advice to the Council, the draft Strategic Plan (AB06/07:33). (148) Noted: that the strategy, a public document, represented a general way forward for the College and drew heavily on the strategic discussions of the last 18 months. A complementary implementation plan would be produced in due course; (149) ….\AB73M.doc 4/8 that the section on the administration had been reshaped by input from the new Head of Administration & College Secretary with its new designation of ‘professional services’ reflecting its new orientation; (150) that changes would be made to the draft to build up the references to interdisciplinary activity, a strength of the College, and to take on board comments about the religious dimension of the College’s founding mission (Minutes 166 and 167 below also refer); (151) that given the College’s relative position in the Russell Group in respect of postgraduate research numbers, the Graduate School would initially be concentrating its efforts on these students. However, taught postgraduate students and their needs were not going to be ignored and
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