Subject Board Committee
One committee per subject — the people who actually write the course, and revise it when the field moves.
Curriculum is written by the people who teach it.
A subject board committee sits under the faculty board, one for each subject area. It is made up of the teachers of that subject, and it does the detailed work: writing the course outline, fixing credit weight and the split between theory and practical, listing the references, setting the practical schedule, and deciding how the subject is assessed internally.
It is also the first place a curriculum problem lands. A practical that cannot be run in the season it is scheduled for, a topic that has gone out of date, a recommendation from the university's own research that ought to be in the syllabus — all of it comes here first, is drafted into a revision, and goes up through the faculty board to the Academic Council.
How a course reaches a classroom
- 01The subject board committee drafts or revises the course outline
- 02Credit weight, theory–practical split and references are fixed
- 03The faculty board reviews it against the rest of the programme
- 04The Academic Council approves it, with or without change
- 05The Dean's Office allocates the teaching and the practical slots
- 06The Examination Board assesses it under the approved scheme