College committees

New Master's programmes, short courses and major/in-session modifications to existing programmes require approval from one or more of the following College-level committees. Follow the links for information about the committees and their meeting/paper deadline dates.

College committees

Faculty meetings

Faculty meetings

Postgraduate Taught Education Strategy Committee (PESC)

PESC is a faculty committee that provides strategic oversight of the Faculty of Medicine’s Postgraduate Taught Education (PGT). It is chaired by Hector Keun, Faculty Education lead for PGT, and attended by the Vice Dean of Education, Departmental Education Leads, and Education Managers in the Faculty of Medicine. For further information and to submit items for review, please contact the committee secretary, Nousheen Tariq, Postgraduate Education Manager.

Doctoral Degrees Forum (DDF)

The specific responsibilities for this Forum are to; Discuss and disseminate information and good practice for PGR (supervisory, pastoral and administrative), monitor completion rates and milestones, monitor the overall quality via internal and external surveys (PRES and Student Experience Survey), be aware of strategic direction of departmental postgraduate research at PGR level (current and future), receive notification of new doctoral training programmes.

Master's Management Liaison Group (MMLG)

The MMLG is a working group that meets on a monthly basis to discuss a variety of issues relating to operational and quality aspects of Master’s programmes that require cross-Faculty collaboration. Meetings are chaired by the departmental Education Managers on a rolling basis and serviced by the FEO PG team. If you have any issues you wish to be raised at an MMLG meeting, please contact your departmental Education Manager.

 

FoM Staff-Student Liaison Committee (SSLC)

The SSLC provides a Faculty-level forum for communication between postgraduate students (Master’s and PhD), academic staff, Faculty leaders of postgraduate strategy, and Graduate School representatives. This Committee is serviced by the student-facing Postgraduate Education Administrator.

The committee's remit includes:

  • To encourage representation in the postgraduate student community of the Faculty of Medicine.
  • To inform the design of and monitor Faculty of Medicine results of college-wide postgraduate student surveys (including PTES & PRES).
  • To encourage and inform the development of world-leading postgraduate taught curricula and research supervision.
  • To encourage community building for Faculty of Medicine postgraduate students through feedback to the Postgraduate Strategy Committee (PGSC).
  • To encourage and inform development of world-leading professional development programmes relevant to Faculty of Medicine Master’s and PhD students through feedback to Postgraduate Professional Development Committee (PPDC)
  • To ensure feedback about academic and welfare matters is given to the executive committee of the Graduate Students’ Union and the Deputy President (Education, DPE) of Imperial College Union.