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| AdminHistory | The Academic Board, in order to foster some uniformity between the constituent colleges and departments of the ATO, appointed Standing Sub-Committees to advise it in certain matters, particularly in relation to syllabuses, examinations and the appointment of examiners in individual subjects (generally from 1949 onwards). Executive Committees were established by the Academic Board in 1970 for the 1970/1 session. They undertook the regular business of the former Standing Sub-Committees (which were renamed Standing Committees).
In 1974 the Academic Council of the University of London (4 Nov 1974) agreed that a new Joint Committee structure be set up for the oversight of the new awards for students at Colleges of Education (BA. BSc, B.Ed, B.Humanities and Dip.HE). The University agreed that there should be two types of committees in this structure - Joint Degree Committees (responsible for determining combinations of courses for a degree as a whole - papers catalogued IE/2/15) and Joint Subject Committees (responsible for determining combinations of courses in the areas of study with which they were concerned).
Joint Subject Committees were composed as follows: one member from each college or group of colleges that is permitted to offer one or more of the areas of study covered by the Joint Subject Committee; members appointed by the relevant Boards of Studies/Special Advisory Committees up to a total equal to the number appointed by the colleges; members co-opted by the Joint Subject Committee. Their remit was 'to advise the relevant Board of Studies/Special Advisory Committee on (a) the scope and value in course units of courses devised by the Institute of Education (b) the combinations of such courses for the field(s) of study with which the Joint Subject Committee is concerned, and in doing so to have regard to the need for such combinations to form a coherent component'. They also advised on devising courses in their area and the appointment of examiners for courses in their field of study.
There also seem to have been several Joint Interim Committees between 1974 and 1976 - they seem to have been a link between the old and new committee system. These papers have been catalogued at IE/2/13.
Validation of College degree courses by the University of London ceased after the 1983 intake (with final examinations in 1988). Committees therefore met rarely after 1983. |