Terms of Reference – Policy and Compliance Committee (PCC)

Context

The Policy and Compliance Committee (PCC) reports to Academic Board (on academic matters) or Executive Committee (on non-academic matters) for evaluating the effectiveness of the University’s policies and regulations and of its quality assurance framework. It is also responsible for monitoring the expectations of the University’s external regulatory bodies and other stakeholders and for ensuring that the University’s current practices are in-line with those expectations. It is responsible for the management of the core regulatory and compliance documentation of the University.

Terms of Reference

1. To oversee a programme of reviews to evaluate the design and implementation of all institutional policies, procedures and regulations for the operation of all aspects of the University.
2. To keep under regular review the alignment of institutional regulations, policies and procedures to relevant external reference points and good practice.
3. To consider proposals for, amendments to, exemptions from and creation of new regulations, guidance, policies and procedures in line with relevant external reference points.
4. To ensure that a complete list of external stakeholders is updated with appropriate contact details both internal and external.
5. To ensure that the University is up-to-date with changes of policy or practice of external stakeholders.
6. To oversee a programme of reviews to evaluate the design and implementation of academic regulations, policies and procedures within the Academic Quality Framework (AQF), and to monitor the implementation of any recommendations.
7. To keep under regular review the alignment of academic regulations, policies and procedures within the AQF to the UK Quality Code, with other relevant external reference points and with good practice.
8. To ensure that the University takes appropriate action when changes, if any, are acted upon, and that information is distributed to the appropriate University personnel.

Membership

Chief Executive Officer (Chair)

Director of Business and Partnership Development & Apprenticeships

Dean of Northeastern University London

Deputy Dean/Associate Dean, Innovation and Enterprise

Registrar

Director of Resourcing and Operations 

Head of Quality Assurance

Director of Visa & Immigration Compliance

Prevent Officer

Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange

Associate General Counsel (UK)

Director of DEI

Policy Manager (Secretary)

Additional members may be co-opted as appropriate

Quorum

Meetings are quorate when the Chair (or alternative Chair) and 50% of the membership are present. Substitutes are permitted with permission of the Chair.

Frequency

Routine meetings are scheduled four times a year.

Reports to

Executive Committee

Communicates with

Academic Board

Reports from

Prevent Duty Review Group

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