The College Education Committee provides strategic leadership of education for the University. It ensures that the University’s academic taught provision aligns with national and international expectations for quality and academic standards and enhances students’ learning experience. The Committee promotes:
- risk-management approaches in relation to quality assurance, providing oversight of the quality and academic standards of students’ learning opportunities and learning experience, advising Academic Board of any issues and areas of good practice
- the level of University compliance with external regulatory bodies such as the Office for Students
- enhancement in learning, teaching, and assessment
- an ethos of students as co-creators of the education experience.
The College Education Committee is supported by the following sub-committees:
- Assessment & Regulatory Oversight Sub-Committee
- Student Experience Sub-Committee
- Quality Assurance and Enhancement Sub-Committee.
To find out more about role of the University's committees, read the Ordinances.
Meetings
Membership
- Chair, Vice President & Vice-Principal (Education & Student Success): Professor Adam Fagan,
- Deputy Chair, nominated by the Vice President (Education & Student Success) from amongst the members of the Committee: Professor Sam Smidt.
Faculty Members: (one Faculty Member and one alternate per Faculty)
- Arts & Humanities: Professor Catherine Wheatley
- Dental, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences: Professor Kirsty Hill
- Dickson Poon School of Law: Professor Paul James Cardwell and Gemma Pountney
- King's Business School: Professor Sally Everett
- Life Sciences & Medicine: Bioscience Education: Professor Helen Collins
- Life Sciences & Medicine: Medical Education: Professor Nicki Cohen
- Life Sciences & Medicine: Louise Merritt
- Bioscience Education: Professor Helen Collins
- Medical Education: Professor Nicki Cohen
- Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences: Professor Simon Banks
- Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care: Professor Mary Malone
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience: Professor Juliet Foster
- Social Science & Public Policy: Professor Robert Francis
- King's Centre for International Education & Languages: Chris Green.
Non-Faculty membership
- Executive Director, Students & Education Directorate: Darren Wallis
- Academic Director, King's Academy: Professor Sam Smidt
- Academic Director, King's Experience: Professor Mark Peace
- Academic Director, Student Success: Professor Kim Piper
- Director of Digital Education: Dr Fiona Strawbridge
- Chair, Assessment & Regulatory Oversight Sub-Committee (ASSC): Anette Schroeder-Rossell
- Chair, Programme Development & Approval Sub-committee (PDASC): Professor Sam Smidt
- Chair, Student Experience Sub-Committee (SESC): Professor Kim Piper
- Chair, Quality Assurance & Enhancement Sub-Committee: Professor Mark Peace.
KCLSU (unreserved business only)
- KCLSU Vice-President Education (Health): Julia Kosowska
- KCLSU Vice-President Postgraduate: Sheeba Naaz.
In attendance
- Strategic Director, Education & Students: Joy Whyte
- Executive Director, King's Digital: Nick Worthington
- Director of Academic Quality: Phil Berry
- Director, Library & Collections: Elisabeth Hannon
- Director, King's Online: Nick Worthington
- Dean of King's College London: The Revd Dr Ellen Clark-King
- Four Associate Directors (Education) - two from Arts & Sciences, two from the Health Faculties.
Other officers of the University may also be permitted by the Chair to attend the College Education Committee either permanently or for particular meetings, along with those presenting papers to the Committee at specific meetings.