Revisions to the Standing Orders of the Council were last approved at the meeting of the Council held on 11 October 2023, with changes taking immediate effect.

Rationale: To reflect the updated size of Council, revised information classifications and updated Committee names.

On 12 September 2023 the Vice-Chancellor approved on behalf of Senate with immediate effect and in advance of the start of the 2023-24 academic year, amendments to Regulation 45 Governing Payment of Annual Fees, Residential Charges and Other Debts, to reflect current processes i.e. that since the Covid-19 pandemic students are no longer required to appear before the Annual Fees (Special Cases) Sub-Committee, rather they are invited to submit a written statement and/or payment proposal for consideration by the Sub-Committee. The Sub-Committee has also been renamed to better reflect its role to: “Academic Fee Payments Sub-Committee”.

These changes will be noted by the Council on 11 October 2023.

On 16 August 2023 the Vice-Chancellor approved on behalf of Senate revisions to the constitution of the Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences as set out in Ordinance 7 Academic Bodies, section 7.1(5)(c), to reflect the reconfiguration of five departments (Applied Linguistics, CTE, CLL, CEDAR (CIDD from 1 August 2023) and DES) to form the School of Education, Learning and Communication Sciences (SELCS) with effect from 1 August 2023.

The revisions were confirmed on 21 August 2023 by the Chair of Council on behalf of the Council and the updates came into immediate effect.

On 13 June 2023 the Council confirmed, on the recommendation of the Senate, the proposed revisions to Ordinance 9: Remove section 9(4) relating to Honorary Masters as no longer required.

On 28 June 2023 the Senate approved with immediate effect amendments to Regulation 23: Student Disciplinary Offences, following two legal judgments which had set case law precedents relating to legal representation and testing the evidence, and therefore needed to be reflected in the regulation.

These changes will be noted by the Council on 13 July 2023.