On 12 February 2025 the Council approved with immediate effect revisions to Ordinance 7: Academic Bodies to reflect changes to the process for the appointment of Academic Heads of Department and reporting lines of the Committee on the Appointment of Heads of Department, as discussed and recommended by Senate on 29 January 2025. The Senate also approved the deletion of Regulation 30: Procedure for appointment of Heads of Joint Schools in the Faculties of Arts & Social Sciences, as this was now outdated and superseded by updates to Ordinance 7.