Management & Governance-draft
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Committee Structure
Responsibilities of the Board of Governors
This Board agrees the School’s strategy and reviews all aspects of its management and resources. Meetings are held three times a year, with protocols aligned closely with the Higher Education Code of Governance and Office for Students Conditions of Governance. To fulfil its obligations, the Board is assisted by Academic Board, Audit, Internal Audit and Risk Committee, Quality and Standards Committee, Assessment Boards, Students Committee, and Finance Committee. Additionally, the Academic Board is supported by the Admission Committee and Disciplinary Committee.
Policies and Minutes:
Schedule of the Board meetings:
Academic Board
The Academic Board, which usually meets twice per year, is responsible for all academic matters, including teaching, learning, assessment, and quality assurance across the School. It ensures that programmes meet awarding body and regulatory standards, monitors student performance and progression, and oversees academic policies and procedures. The Board plays a key role in maintaining academic integrity, enhancing teaching quality, and preparing for external reviews and inspections.
Board remit and minutes of meetings:
Audit, Internal Control and Risk Management Committee
This Committee supports the Board of Governance in overseeing financial management, internal controls, audit processes, and risk management. It reviews budgets, monitors financial performance, and ensures effective use of resources, while also overseeing compliance with regulatory and financial reporting requirements. The Committee works with internal and external auditors, identifies and manages risks, and ensures transparency, accountability, and long-term financial sustainability of the School.
Board remit and minutes of meetings:
Standard public interest governance principles:
The Caspian School’s Board reflects the underpinning public interest principles:
Academic freedom
The School believes that the academic freedom of faculty members to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or detriment is essential to the principles of academia (4).
Accountability
The management and staff are accountable for their decisions and actions to the Board and must submit themselves to whatever scrutiny is appropriate to their position, including the Policy and Procedure for Fit and Proper Persons checks (5).
Student engagement
The School views effective student support as a crucial part of its overall academic provision and seeks to engender a supportive learning and social environment for all its students and recognises that well planned student support arrangements make a major contribution to personal well-being and academic success (6).
Risk management
Risk management issues are considered regularly by the Board of Governance and formal discussion and review of the Corporate Risk and Assurance Register at regular intervals across the academic year facilitates the identification, assessment and ongoing monitoring of risks that are significant to the institution and its performance (7).
Value for money
The Board of Governors ensures that there are adequate and effective arrangements in place to provide transparency about value for money for students and for taxpayers (8).
Freedom of speech
The Board of Governors has approved the School Policy on Academic Freedom and its approach to collegiality. Principles of Freedom of Speech (9) are made available to staff and students at induction.
Equality, Diversity and Respect
The Board of Governors supports the School’s commitment to the principles of inclusion as set out in the Equality and Diversity Policy (10). The School does not tolerate any form of discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, disability or age in line with the statutory requirements of equalities and human rights legislation.
