The Scope of Academic Governance

The following broad aspects are agreed by the Senate as the scope of academic governance at Warwick:

• Student: access, admission, registration, success, wellbeing, experience, conduct and discipline, complaints and contention, students’ union, and student organisation.
• Education: strategy, qualifications and courses, teaching and learning, curriculum, assessment, progression and award, quality assurance, partnerships and credit transfer.
• Research: strategy, performance, quality, impact, knowledge exchange, training and development.
• Academic: strategy, academic freedom and freedom of speech, organisation (faculties, departments, centres) and governance, resourcing, academic dress, library administration.
• Advice to Council on: academic staff appointments and conditions, academic resourcing, Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor appointments, scholarships and prizes, estate development.