The Council at its meeting held on 17 February 2011 reported revisions to Regulation 34 governing the Determination of Fitness to Practise for the PGCE, approved by the Chair of the Council on behalf of the Council, on the recommendation of the Steering Committee on behalf of the Senate.

The revision provided the facility for a Fitness to Practice Committee, finding a PGCE student unfit to practice, to recommend that the student’s registration be transferred to a non-practising course.

The Council at its meeting held on 26 November 2010 reported revisions to Regulation 34 governing the Determination of Fitness to Practise for the MB ChB, approved by the Chair of the Council on behalf of the Council, on the recommendation of the Steering Committee on behalf of the Senate.

The revisions were concerned with the constitution of the Fitness to Practise Committee and Panel which can be drawn upon primarily for appeals cases concerning the MBChB in the Warwick Medical School.

In October 2009, the Privy Council approved changes to the University Statutes to transfer awarding power for Honorary Degrees from the Council to the Senate. 

The Council approved at its meeting held on 14 October 2010 the associated revisions to Ordinance 14 governing the Honorary Degrees Committee, on the recommendation of the Senate. 

The Council at its meeting held on 14 October 2010 approved revisions to Regulation 9.5 governing the constitution of Boards of Examiners for the MB ChB, on the recommendation of the Senate.

At its meeting held on 14 October, the Council, on the recommendation of the Senate, approved for a second time amendments to Ordinance 7 on Boards of the Faculties and Ordinance 10 on departments.

The revisions established the Warwick Manufacturing Group as an  academic department within the Faculty of Science and to formalise representation from the School of Life Sciences on the Board of the Faculty of Science.