New Course Structures: The UWA Future Framework

Board of Coursework Studies


The tasks of the Board are to:

  • Ensure that future courses have educational integrity within the new framework, meet quality assurance standards, and align with the University’s strategic directions.
  • Give detailed consideration to proposals for units, majors and courses from a University-wide perspective at the policy and strategic levels prior to their submission to Academic Council in final form for legislative approval.
  • Provide high-level policy advice, based on comprehensive data analysis and reports, relating to the design, operation and evaluation of undergraduate and postgraduate courses within the new framework.

Membership of the Board

SDVC (as chair)
Bill Louden
Academic Board Chair
Karen Simmer
Academic Board Deputy Chair
Simon Anderson
PVC (Teaching and Learning)
Jane Long
Executive Director (Academic Services) and Registrar
Peter Curtis
Guild President
Dominic Rose
Appointed by Academic Council (being staff from each of the four areas of knowledge represented by the three-year undergraduate degrees and drawn from the respective Interim Boards of Studies)
Chair B Phil Interim Board of Studies
Susan Broomhall
Appointed by Academic Council with expertise in relation to postgraduate studies
Academic Secretary (Executive Officer)
Sylvia Lang