Postgraduate Awards Subcommittee (PGASC)

From file: 028/0002/00044: 12/12/97 meeting of the Academic Board:
The Graduate Studies Committee noted the resolution of the Board that established the constitution of the Postgraduate Awards Sub-Committee. The Chair of the Board would chair the 1997 meeting of the Sub-Committee, and the Committee agreed that from 1998 the Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee should be Chair of the Postgraduate Awards Sub-Committee and that there was a need to consider the ranking criteria for postgraduate awards.

At its meeting of 14 August 2002, the Academic Board noted that, as part of the implementation of the recommendations of the Review of the Academic Board and Academic Forum, the terms of reference of Board standing committees and their sub-committees were being reviewed. On 16 October 2002, the Board adopted terms of reference and constitutions for its committees and their sub-committees [resolutions 266/02 (2). The Postgraduate Awards Sub-Committee was a subcommittee of the Graduate Studies Committee. Its purpose was to advise the Graduate Studies Committee about the Resolutions, policy and procedures relating to the award of Australian Postgraduate Awards and University of Sydney Postgraduate Awards and takes decisions in accordance with the Resolutions of the Senate: Delegations of Authority: Academic Functions. 

Terms of Reference:

1. ​To act for the Academic Board in awarding specific postgraduate scholarships and advise the Graduate Studies Committee on Resolutions, policy and procedures relating to the award of specific postgraduate scholarships: (1) funded Commonwealth (eg APA, UPA, IPRS); or (2) by Academic Board as specified in scholarship/prize conditions (eg travelling scholarships).
2. To act for the Academic Board in determining University nominations for postgraduate scholarships required by external organisations (eg CSFP).
3. To develop, oversee and monitor processes for the effective implementation of policy and good practice relating to the award of specific postgraduate scholarships.
4. To provide an annual report on any matter referred to it by the Academic Board, the Vice-Chancellor, the Graduate Studies Committee or the Chair of the Academic Board.

At its meeting on 17 August June 2016 the Academic Board approved the change in name to the Higher Degree by Research Sub-Committee.