UK Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers
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The UK Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers (ACDAP), is a committee within the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. It is responsible for considering applications for degree awarding powers and university title (DAP/UT), and providing confidential advice via the Board to the Privy Council. All applications for new universities must be approved by the Committee.[1]
Purpose
[edit]ACDAP is responsible for considering applications for degree awarding powers and university title (DAP/UT). No organisation may award degrees or call itself a university in the UK unless authorised to do so by the government via the committee.[2] There are three levels of DAP - Foundation, Teaching, and Research DAPs. It also oversees the criteria and scrutiny processes used to assess applications.
Membership
[edit]The Committee's membership comprises the independent Chair, two Board members, seven members with current or recent UK DAP experience, two members with experience within a professional body, one member with a background in College Higher Education and one student member. Two more members may added to the Committee to bring other relevant expertise.
| ACDAP | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chair | Andrew Ramsay | Former Chief Executive Officer, Engineering Council[1] |
| Professor Phil Cardew | Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Leeds Beckett University[1] | |
| Professor Aldwyn Cooper | Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, Regent's University, London[1] | |
| Dr Vanessa Davies | Director General of the Bar Standards Board[1] | |
| Charles Hunt | Vice-Chancellor, University College of Osteopathy[1] | |
| Anne Lambert | Board Member, Competition and Markets Authority[1] | |
| Professor Jane Longmore | Vice-Chancellor, University of Chichester[1] | |
| Professor Lorna Milne | Senior Vice-Principal (Proctor), University of St Andrews[1] | |
| Aaron Lowman | Academic Registrar, The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts[1] | |
| Dorothea Ross-Simpson | Head of Academic Quality and Student Conduct, Keele University[1] | |
| Professor Alan Speight | Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education), University of Hull[1] | |
| Jenny Taylor | IBM UK Foundation Leader, IBM (UK)[1] | |
| Philip Wilson | ||
| Dr Steve Wright | Director of Higher Education, Nelson and Colne College[1] | |
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