MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SCRUTINY

MINUTES

Thursday, 22 February 2007 at 12.00pm

New SCR, Selwyn College

Present: Mr Nick Downer (Chair); Dr Elisabeth Leedham-Green (Secretary); Miss Emma Easterbrook (Support Officer); Mr Frank King; Mr Roger Greeves; Dr Nick Holmes; Mr Michael Kuczynski; Dr Catherine Pitt; Dr Peter Sarris; Mr Richard Stibbs; and Mr David Yates.

1.

Apologies

Dr Margaret Glendenning.

2.

Guest: Dr Tim Mead

-       Revised proposals for UAS to be considered by the Council on 19 March 2007

-       Strategy Committee for North West Cambridge is meeting each month

-       The Council intend to appoint the new Registrar on 23 April 2007

-       Changes to the UAS will involve mainly internal recruitment with a few posts to be advertised externally

-       Working relationship between the Pro-Vice-Chancellors and the University has improved

-       Draft green paper regarding governance to be considered at next Council meeting

-       John Milner and Stephen Jolly are liaising on a new web-site to draw committees together

-       Continuing improvements to CamSIS

-       Pay and Grading due to be completed later this year

3.

Minutes of Meetings on 25 January and 8 February 2007

Approved with one minor amendment.

4.

Matters Arising

None.

5.

Meeting with Peter Deer and John Payne

- To be arranged.

6.

Any Other Business

-       Meeting with Graham Allen: Mr Nick Downer to arrange a meeting with Graham Allen; Dr Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Dr Peter Sarris and Mr David Yates to attend

-       Board of Graduate Studies: Mr Nick Downer to investigate review

-       Meeting on 8 March: Up-date work plan and consider Annual Report

7.

Date of next meeting

Thursday, 8 March 2007 at 12.00pm

New SCR, Selwyn College

Emma Easterbrook

Support Officer

18 March 2007