Academic Board

(a) the Director

(b) full-time and part-time Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers, Lecturers, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, Professorial Lecturers, Associate Professorial Lecturers, and Assistant Professorial Lecturers;

(c) full-time and part-time Teaching and LSE Fellows;

(d) full-time and part-time Principal Research Fellows, Senior Research Fellows, Research Fellows, Assistant Professorial Research Fellows, Associate Professorial Research Fellows. Professorial Research Fellows, and Research Officers;

(e) seven students always including the General Secretary of the Students’ Union, the Education Officer, the Postgraduate Officer, and three other students, one of whom must be a postgraduate, and a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

(f) such other persons whose presence will contribute positively to the business under consideration, to be co-opted by agreement between the Chair and VCAB.

To the Academic Board are brought all major issues of general policy affecting the academic life of the School and its development. The Academic Board is responsible  for monitoring and upholding the academic standards of the School and for regulating teaching. Specifically, its functions include:  

(a) to make periodic reviews of the scope and content of the array of taught degree programmes and component courses and to guide its future development;

(b) to authorise the award of degrees (other than honorary degrees and honorary fellowships), diplomas, certificates and other distinctions to persons who have satisfied the conditions for the award thereof as prescribed in and pursuant to the Bye-laws;

(c) to prescribe the circumstances in which a student may be required or permitted to withdraw temporarily or permanently and either conditionally or unconditionally from all or any part of his or her programme of study on grounds other than disciplinary grounds;

(d) to appoint, remove or suspend examiners;

(e) to endorse for onward transmission to Council matters affecting the School’s academic governance, management arrangements and academic strategy;

(f) to endorse for onward transmission to Council recommendations from APRC on the organisation of departments and other academic units;

(g) to approve recommendations in relation to academic and pastoral support for students as appropriate;

(h) to promote research within the School and to require reports from time to time on such research;

(i) to approve academic regulations and changes therein;

(j) to recommend changes from time to time to the School’s Bye-laws;

(k) to approve academic policies which have School-wide implications;

(l) to receive annual reports from its Standing Committees

(m) to agree with Council those matters on which it will routinely consult with the Academic Board;

(n) to declare a position on any matter of interest to the Academic Board, and bring it to the attention of Council through a resolution. 

October 2018

• Wednesday, 31 Oct 2018 at 14:00 in Shaw Library

December 2018

• Wednesday, 5 Dec 2018 at 14:00 in Shaw Library

February 2019

• Wednesday 20 Feb 2019 at 14:00 in Shaw Library

March 2019

• Wednesday, 20 March 2019 at 14:00 in Shaw Library

May 2019

• Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 14:00 in Shaw Library
• Wednesday, 29 May 2019 at 14:00 in Shaw Library

• Academic Nominations Committee
• Agenda Committee
• Academic Planning and Resources Committee
• Education Committee (formly ASC)
• Research Committee