S.L. 566.2 Art. 4Functions of the Board.

(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.

(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 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 with regards to those who contribute curriculum vitae 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.