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Members sought information about some of the matters discussed by the Faculties, and learned that the Faculty of Music had given attention to the new 2-2.1 course, the Faculty of Business had discussed assessment and the Faculty of Arts had discussed entry requirements, but in separate groups of staff concerned with each of the languages taught. The Department of Social Science had held a number of meetings to discuss a proposed course in Social Work. It emerged from the discussion of the Social Work proposals that the Advisory Commiteee for Social Work had not been altogether satisfied with the College's plans for this subject, and advised that the department should do further work on its proposal before advertising the one staff appointment envisaged. The advice of the Committee seemed to have been sought and heeded after the proposal to go ahead had been agreed, at least in principle, by the Faculty of Arts, the Academic Board and the College Council. In effect, the appraisal of the course by the Advisory Committee was a form of validation carried out at rather a late stage in the planning procedure. Nevertheless, the College had clearly found the work of the Advisory Committee to be of value.
10.
APPRAISAL
10.1 CNAA recognised that the College was still not large and
that the constitution of the various Committees was in some respects over-sophisticated, and allowance has been made for it in this appraisal. There seemed to have been a relatively protracted transition from a former stage where both academic and resource matters were dealt with by a Management Committee in conjunction with the President.
10.2 Having also considered the report on the courses in
Business Studies set out in Appendix F, CNAA finds that the College has serious problems in operating at the academic level envisaged in the White Paper, and indeed it is not doing so. The problems are numerous and deep seated and CNAA was not able to establish confidence in the standards.
10.3 Lack of leadership is currently such that attainment of
such standards could only come about in the long term and with radical changes.
(a)
The College lacks leadership at the level of the President. The whole institutional discussion was carried out with the Dean of Studies manfully trying to keep the debate afloat; clearly it was also mainly through his efforts that the academic
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