PROGRAM QUALITY VALIDATION BOARD REGULATIONS

PROGRAM QUALITY VALIDATION BOARD

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 566.02

PROGRAM QUALITY VALIDATION BOARD

REGULATIONS

24th January, 2017

LEGAL NOTICE 29 of 2017.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Program Quality

Validation Board Regulations.

(2) These regulations provide for the establishment of a

Program Quality Validation Board.

For the purposes of these regulations and unless the

context otherwise requires

"Act" means the Institute of Tourism Studies Act;

"Board of Governors" means the Board established by article 9

of the Act;

"Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer of

the Institute of Tourism Studies appointed in accordance with

article 17 of the Act;

"Institute" means the Institute for Tourism Studies;

"Internal Quality Assurance Committee" means the Committee

that will monitor the organisational performance in accordance

with the National Quality Assurance Framework for Further and

Higher Education;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for Tourism;

"Program Quality Validation Board" means the Board entrusted

to oversee the effective operations of the Institute’s academic

programs through validations as established in article 3 of the Act.

(1) There shall be a Program Quality Validation Board

which shall consist of the following members

(a) the Head of Corporate Services, ex officio, as the

Chairperson of the Board;

(b) four members appointed by the Board of Governors

from among the academic staff;

(c) one member being a student representative appointed

by the duly recognised students representative council.

(2) The Members of the Program Validation Quality Board

shall be appointed for a period of two (2) years. Such members

shall be eligible to be re-appointed for further terms after their term

expires.

(1) The Program Validation Quality Board shall have such

functions as set out in this regulation and in particular it shall

ensure that the programs and award within its remit are

commensurate with the parameters established by the Institute.

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(2)

It shall be the function of the Board

(a) to oversee and validate the Institute’s academic

programs

Provided that no program shall be validated until the

Program Validation Quality Board shall satisfy itself

as to the program’s suitability within the Institute’s

strategy, corporate values and academic portfolio. In

addition, the Institute’s objectives, governance,

funding, resources, academic capacity, general

standing, location, critical mass, quality assurance

systems (including audit reports carried out by

external agencies), and risk will be considered. As part

of the process, the Program Validation Board may

invite comments on the proposals from Board of

Studies’ members responsible for a particular

discipline or allied subject to that being proposed for

validation;

(b) to approve recommendations arising from program

validation or approval and revalidation or periodic

review where a further period is proposed;

(c) to approve major amendments to programs and their

component units;

(d) to oversee and to review the operation of the Institute’s

curricula;

(e) to formulate, implement, review and develop the

Institute’s policy on validation and institutional

partnerships and to make recommendations to Board

of Studies;

(f)

to undertake responsibility for operating the Institute’s

framework

for

validation

and

to

make

recommendations to Board of Studies;

(g) to undertaking responsibility for operating the

Institute’s framework for program validation/approval

and revalidation/periodic review and to approve

recommendations on behalf of Board of Studies where

further

periods

are

proposed

or

making

recommendations to Board of Studies where

termination or suspension is proposed;

(h) to establish sub-committees for validation purposes

including composition, membership and functions;

(i)

to contribute towards the Institute’s process of

strategic review of validation and to make

recommendations to the Board of Studies and the

Chief Executive Officer, as the case may be;

(j)

to approve proposed amendments to programs and

their component units;

(k) to evaluate, recommend and, or validate proposed

program amendments and, or study units;

(l)

to consider nominations for external examiners for

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subsequent recommendation to the Institute’s Board of

Studies;

(m) to consider and approve a consistent policy for any

APL

(Accreditation

of

Prior

Learning)

recommendations for entry by advanced standing to

the programs, and to monitor the operation of this

policy;

(n) to collect any details of staff and accompanying

curriculum vitae with regards to those who contribute

to the delivery and assessment of the programs;

(o) to receive and consider minutes of the Board of

Studies;

(p) to liaise with other institutional bodies of the Institute

as appropriate.

(1) The Program Quality Validation Board shall meet at

least once every six weeks

Provided that the Chief Executive Officer may call for an

ad hoc meeting of the Program Quality Validation Board in case of

urgent matters relating to the validation of programs.

(2) No business shall be transacted by the Program Quality

Validation Board unless a quorum of three members is obtained. In

the absence of a quorum the meeting shall be adjourned and the

Secretary of the Program Quality Validation Board shall report

such fact to the Board of Governors

Provided that another meeting shall be convened by giving

two weeks notice to all members of the Program Quality Validation

Board

Provided further that if no quorum is reached at the

adjourned meeting the Program Quality Validation Board shall still

hold such meeting proceed with the business on the agenda.

The Chairperson of the Program Quality Validation Board

shall submit an annual report on the validation activities of the

Program Quality Validation Board which report shall be submitted

to the Board of Governors and the Internal Quality Assurance

Committee at the end of each academic year.