UWIDEC APC P. 7

2003/4

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES

A proposal to give authority to the APC for the admission of students to DEC programmes and their continuance therein

The first meeting of the APC on March 24^th 2003 agreed that “the DEC should seek immediate authority from Senate to recommend registrations, exemptions, and leave of absence without recourse to Faculty sub-committees or Academic Boards” (minute 10). This measure was seen as an essential element in the reconfiguration of the UWIDEC as in effect a “virtual campus”, a restructuring that has been endorsed by the University generally at the meeting of F&GPC on May 30, 2003.

The relevant powers of Senate (Statute 25, 2(f)) are in fact devolved to the Board for Undergraduate Studies (Statute 28, 4(b)) and the Board for Graduate Studies and Research (Statute 30, 4(b)) for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes respectively.

These Boards have in turn authorised Faculty sub-committees or Academic Boards to actually implement these processes, noting however that the power to require withdrawal from the University is specifically allotted to the Academic Boards by Statute 27, 3.

With effect from academic year 2004-2005, the Academic Programme Committee of the UWIDEC is to manage the admission of persons in courses of study within the UWIDEC and their continuance or discontinuance in such courses, in accordance with such regulations as are in force for the University.

The Board for Undergraduate Studies and the Board for Graduate Studies and Research are therefore requested to recognise the Academic Programme Committee of the UWIDEC as equivalent to a Faculty Board and an Academic Board for purposes of the determination of the admission of students in UWIDEC programmes, and their continuance therein.

A proposal will be submitted at a later date concerning the power to require withdrawal from the University with respect to students registered in the UWIDEC.

Office of the Board for NCC/DE

September 25, 2003