Academic Support
Academic Support is part of UCL’s Professional Services. On 1 August 2011, the former Academic Services unit became a new
department, entitled Academic Support, within the Registry and Academic
Services division. Prior to that, on 3 May 2011, Academic Services merged with the Registry to form a new division, Registry and Academic Services, headed by Tim Perry as Director of Registry and Academic Services.
Based at 2 Taviton Street, we are a team of 8 staff, responsible for a range of UCL operations, including:
Governance and academic organisation.
We co-ordinate the running of UCL’s network of formal committees; act as secretariat to the Council (the governing body of UCL) and the Academic Board (UCL’s senior academic authority); service other formal committees; offer guidance to colleagues across UCL on committee servicing and protocols; maintain UCL’s instruments of governance (the Charter, Statutes and Regulations for Management) and the schedule of academic units of UCL established by the Council;
Academic quality management and enhancement (QME).
We organise and provide administrative and secretarial support to UCL's rolling programme of Internal Quality Review (IQR); co-ordinate UCL’s Annual Monitoring process; lead planning and preparations for external reviews of UCL academic quality and standards conducted by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA); support the development, through the UCL committees responsible, of QME policies and procedures; and maintain the UCL Academic Manual, which contains these policies and procedures;
Research governance.
We maintain and support the development, through UCL’s Research Governance Committee, of UCL’s research governance framework; and co-ordinate and provide administrative support to panels investigating allegations of misconduct in academic research.
Senior academic staff appointments.
We co-ordinate recruitment and selection processes for appointments to all Chairs (ie Professorships) and Readerships at UCL; and we administer the Provost’s consultations with staff on the appointment by UCL Council of Deans of Faculties and Heads of academic Departments.
To find out further information about the work of Academic Support, please use the links on the left or contact us at:
University College London, 2 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BT - Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 8878 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 8595.
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