Academic Board
Dr Anne Chant
Ed.D; MA; PG Cert; BSc
Non Executive Members
Anne is the Section Lead for Educational Studies in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education and Director of the Centre for Career and Personal Development at Canterbury Christ Church University.
A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she is an experienced Career Guidance practitioner, teacher, researcher and writer and is currently engaged in research into inclusion in Higher Education. She is Chair of the Network for Innovation in Career Counselling in Europe (NICE) and has been the UK lead for two Erasmus+ projects aimed at supporting Refugees and their integration into the labour markets of their host countries.
Dr Steven Quigley
Ed.D, MA (Lond), BSc (Hons), FAUA
Non Executive Members
Steven started working in the Higher Education sector in 1997 and has significant experience of managing registries, staff, systems, processes and procedures in the delivery of Higher Education administration for the benefit of students in an international context. He moved to Regent’s University London in 2000.
Steven served as Registrar from 2017-2020. His former roles at Regent’s include: Academic Registrar (2007-2017); Head of Quality (2004-2007); Module Leader for a joint MA in Management/MSc in Global Banking and Finance Business Research Methods Module (2006), and other management roles (2000-2004). His areas of responsibility in those roles included: front desk student services; student records and associated systems; disability service, timetabling; quality; exams, assessments and awards; appeals and complaints; surveys, data and statistics; student immigration and compliance; attendance systems, and graduation.
Steven served on the Board of Trustees for the Council of Validating Universities (2014- 2020) and is a former Trustee (2012-2018) of the Association of University Administrators (AUA). Steven sat on the UCAS Council (2013-2018) as the AUA nominated senior Higher Education representative. He also sat on the Editorial boards (2016-2018) for two AUA journals: Perspectives and Newslink. He was a member of the Architectural Association Council (2015 – 2016) where his role was to advise the Council on Higher Education. He also brought his expertise to the British Accreditation Council (BAC) (2014-2020) where he contributed to the review of a range of institutions under several quality schemes. For and on behalf of BAC, as the Accreditation Committee Deputy-Chair, he took part in an ENQA review of BAC.
Steven’s expertise is grounded in Quality. He was the Chair of the Regent’s Senate Quality Assurance and Enhancement Committee and member of Senate and several other Senate Committees. His contributions to the Higher Education sector include serving on the Regulatory Partnership Group’s ‘redesigning the Higher Education data and information Improvement landscape project (HEDIIP)’ steering group, and the QAA national advisory groups for both Chapter B11 Research degrees and Part A of the old Quality Code. Steven was a QAA Reviewer for Taught Degree Awarding Powers under the old review method (2017-2019). Steven is currently an expert reviewer for the new QAA Quality Standards Review methods: a) Taught Degree Awarding Powers, and b) Monitoring and Intervention. Steven has also advised several institutions on acquiring taught degree awarding powers and university title.
Terms of Reference
The Chair of the Academic Board shall report on the performance of the Academic Board annually to the Board of Directors Report on the effectiveness of the Academic Board in the context of the mission of the College, expectations of the students, employers, quality assurance agency and other Higher Education providers.
Meetings shall be held a minimum of once per term (typically three times in a year). The Chair might call a Special Meeting of the Academic Board on discretion.
The Academic Board has delegated to it by the Board of Directors, the power to maintain academic standards and manage learning opportunities. It is responsible for the overarching management of academic standards and the quality of learning opportunities through strategic oversight of learning, teaching, programme development, course management, student support and resources, staff development, criteria of admission of students, policies and procedures of assessments, quality assurance and enhancement, strategy, partnership working and provision relating to discipline and exclusion of students;
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Information on the scheduled meeting dates for the Academic Board
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