Joint Committee on Prof Board

The Joint Committee on Student Participation in the University has decided not to recommend the Professorial Board to include student representatives on its Academic, Asian Studies and Publications Committees.

Despite Students' Association and other submissions the committee fell it would be difficult to separate those functions of the Academic Committee to which representatives would be involved in making decisions affecting fellow students from those where students could make a contribution.

It also felt the other committees were not set up in a suitable way for student representation.

However, the committee has recommended to the Professorial Board that student representatives be placed on Enrolment. Timetable, Teaching Aids. Library Advisory, Interdisciplinary Activities and UE, Bursaries and Entrance Scholarship Committees.

With regard to Faculty sub-committees the Joint Committee asked that steps be taken "to ensure that student opinion is fully understood at all levels and from all levels, including the setting up of formal machinery, by the commencement of 1969.

"The Committee has taken this particular course of action as it is not possible to lay down any set pattern for faculties to achieve this object when they differ so greatly in character."

The question of student representatives on Professorial Board itself has been delayed until the Board has considered the recommendations for student participation on its various subcommittees.