This election would occur at the last meeting of an academic session in preparation for the start of the following academic year. In addition it was considered appropriate that a fixed agenda be agreed and adopted by each committee. This agenda would be comprised of standard items, but would maintain a degree of flexibility permitting further items to be added as issues arose. As a result, standard practices must be adopted to maximise efficiency, speed and flow of information between all levels of decision making. Decisions are to be made at the appropriate level and, only in exceptional cases where decisions involving unrealistic resource commitments or those which are in contravention to University Regulations, will the Executive Committee or Head of Department overturn the decision of a departmental committee.
Every meeting is an open meeting and therefore can be observed by any departmental member of staff.
Observers, however, will only be permitted to contribute to the proceedings of the meeting at the express invitation of the committee chair. All staff in the department Chair To be elected from the membership Role To provide a forum for information exchange within the department, To comment upon and approve reports presented by the other committees and identify implementation mechanisms. The Departmental Board will operate a system of starred items. A starred item is a report received from another committee which is NOT to be discussed at the board. Such reports MUST, however be circulated prior to the board.