Programme Management
Each programme is run on a day-to-day basis by your Programme Director and
Associate Directors. The Student Support Office is managed by Gill
Lester who is assisted by Susie Hymas, Chris Calland, and Richard Ward.
The Postgraduate Committee oversees management of the MSc
programmes. Its principal function is to determine and monitor the
academic content of the programme, to admit and examine students and
to monitor student progress and to decide on policy and planning. It is answerable to the MSc Panel of the
Faculty. Its chair is Professor Uli Sattler, Head of the Postgraduate
School in the School of Computer Science. The Postgraduate Committee
usually meets monthly.
There is also a joint Industry Club which includes advisors from commerce and industry; currently Thales Information Systems, NCC, Tessella Support Services, Logica, Fujitsu Services (CMS), IBM UK Ltd among others in recent years.
in programme management is possible in
three ways:
through election of representatives to carry your concerns to the
SSCC (Staff-Student Consultative Committee) which meets three times a
year, typically in October, February and June; via feedback meetings
with the Programme Directors, and through Unit Surveys, which are consulted and acted on (see Section 17.2)
meetings between the students and the relevant staff take place once per Semester where you may bring forward comments and suggestions, and raise complaints about the programmes.
We encourage you to raise problems immediately as the
programme management may not be aware of difficulties. Queries or
comments about individual course units should be addressed in the
first instance to course unit lecturers. The Programme Directors
operate an open door policy for genuine problems of either an academic
or personal nature.
are appointed to monitor the standards of our teaching and assessment. During the year they review coursework and examination papers and provide critical advice of these which we are obliged to take into account. Following the second semester examinations, they attend the University and scrutinise the written papers and coursework of students, submitting a report to the University on our conduct of the whole student assessment. They also examine the Masters dissertations and moderate marking.
