Senate endorses new Faculty and School names
05 Nov 2015
Recommendations to go to Board of Governors for approval
In July the University’s Board of Governors approved the key recommendation of the Review of Life Sciences and Cognate Disciplines that the University should be reconstituted so that all academic activity is organised around three Faculties, see: Review of Life Sciences and Cognate Disciplines
A meeting of Senate held yesterday (Wednesday, 4 November 2015) endorsed for recommendation to the Board of Governors:
- the new Faculty be named Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health;
- the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences be re-named the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Senate also endorsed for recommendation to the Board of Governors, that the three Schools in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health will be named:
- School of Biological Sciences
- School of Medical Sciences
- School of Health Sciences
It is envisaged each of these Schools will be of roughly equal size and will contain approximately 300 academic staff and 2,500 undergraduate students. It proposed that sub-structures below School level will be organised as Divisions (e.g. Division of Medicine, Division of Pharmacy).
Changes to the Faculty of Science and Engineering will be limited to a modest expansion of two current Schools – the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences and the School of Chemistry. A change in the name of the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences to the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences was also endorsed by Senate for recommendation to the Board of Governors.
Subject to approval by the Board of Governors, the new structures will come fully into operation by 1 August 2016.