Decisions of Academic Scrutiny Panel

11. The Academic Scrutiny Panel will have the choice of one of the following decisions:

a. Unconditional approval

b. Approval with minor modifications (to be approved by the Chair of the Panel)

c. Conditional approval: this will require the proposing department to submit a response to the Chair of the Panel, which will also be ratified by the external assessor

d. Referral back to the academic department(s). In such cases it is anticipated that considerable revision would be required before re-presenting the proposal

e. Rejection (on QA grounds only).

12. The Academic Scrutiny Panel will define actions as recommendations or conditions:

a. Recommendations: should be areas for consideration by the proposing department, or minor corrections, but will not delay the approval of the proposal.

b. Conditions: which should be stated clearly where approval is subject to specified conditions being met within a given time scale. Approval will not be granted until these conditions have been met.