School Advisory Board

The School Advisory Board consists of a number of industrialists from companies with an association with the School through a history of providing professional placements, involvement with collaborative research or consultancy or of specific industrial relevance to the School.

While we constantly strive to keep our courses and content up-to-date, we also recognise the unique opportunity that the Advisory Board gives us to have real industrial input into our programmes. It gives local and national organisations the chance to comment on and help improve our course provision and content which helps our students become more employable and ultimately helps them acquire skills more relevant to the job market.

The full Board meets annually in June.

Terms of Reference

The terms of reference for the School Advisory Board are to:

• Assist the School in recognising the latest needs of industry and the professions.
• Advise on existing and proposed taught programmes in the School to ensure that the curriculum and equipment of the School accords with the best professional and industrial practices.
• Provide guidance to the School for incorporating the requirements of professional institutions within existing and proposed programmes.
• Make the work and facilities of the School better known in industry and those areas of employment for which students are educated.
• Advise and assist, where appropriate, in finding places for and assisting with industrial placements for sandwich programme students.
• Advise and assist, where appropriate, on the recruitment of students for programmes.
• Encourage and assist, where appropriate, the interchange of staff between the School and industry.
• Identify opportunities for consultancy and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training by the School, and encourage their use by industry.
• Help in establishing where desirable, special prizes and other awards with the object of encouraging capable and deserving students.
• Promote collaboration and research between the School and industry.

How to Get Involved

If you feel that you would like to recommend a representative of your Company to serve on the Board, we would be happy to accommodate you. Please contact us for more details.