NCAD Higher Awards Committee

The Higher Awards Committee is a sub-committee of Academic Council, established in order to:

• effectively realise delegated duties of Academic Council;
  
  
• ensure collegiality and parity in the administration of higher awards and degrees;
  
  
• act as a quality assurance measure recommended by best practice;
  
  
• to ensure and demonstrate the rigour, academic seriousness and value of higher awards and degrees in the College.

The Committee meets several times a year, is chaired by the Head of Research and Postgraduate Studies and composed of the Registrar (ex officio) the Admissions Officer (ex officio) and the Head of Research & Postgraduate Development (ex officio), the Dean of GradCAM (ex officio), the NCAD GradCAM Fellow (ex officio), each Head of Faculty or their nominee, the Head of Core and a postgraduate student representative.

Annual election of the postgraduate student representative is coordinated by the NCAD Students’ Union, ncadsu@gmail.com.

Áine Phillips PhD student at NCAD: still from performance research presentation at “From Experience” March 10th 2006.

Leah Hilliard, Department of Fine Art Media, Conference presentation Bergen Norway, 2005.