General Studies Review Committee [Sydney College of Advanced Education (SCAE) Academic Board]

On 2 September 1987 the College Academic Board resolved to formally review the General Studies program of the College. The terms of reference of the review were to:
1. examine and report upon the extent to which General Studies were fulfilling their stated functions;
2. to make recommendations on the future operations of the General Studies courses; and
3. in particular to comment on:
a. the philosophical basis for gender studies;
b. the academic standards, grading and assessment;
c. their relationship to the variety of programs offered by the College;
d. level and type of staffing;
e. funding;
f. timetabling;
g. their relationship with Institutes and Centres;
h. implications for current award approvals.

The review was to be undertaken by the General Studies Committee augmented by a lecturer in General Studies and an appropriate external person. The Review Committee had the power to co-opt and to invite submissions from appropriate committees in the College and from staff and students.