Terry Said:

East London University?

We Answered:

Yeah it wasent bad.. you planing on going there?

Roy Said:

is the 24 hour library in University of East London open to the public?

We Answered:

My sister goes to LSE, their library is 24 hours and is open to the public. It's only opened to the public on certain days I think... so be sure to call before you go. It's near covent garden btw.
Good luck with your A levels! Hope you pass with flying colours.

Sharon Said:

How much costs to study law in University of East London a year?

We Answered:

UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON

SCHOOL OF LAW

SCHOOL BOARD


Minutes of the Meeting of Thursday 2nd February 2005 held at Duncan House at 2pm

Present: Fiona Fairweather (Chair), Sonia Crawford, Kofi Kufour, Sharon Levy, Maurice Moore, Richard Ryder, Andrew Silke, Elizabeth Stokes, Anne Griffiths, Siraj Sait, Ian Stirk, John Strawson, Alan Wilson, Qudsia Mirza,

Officer: Stella Odiah

36. APOLOGIES
Jane Pickford, Maureen Azubike, Ian Stirk, Hilary Lim, Pat Berwick,
Sharon Senner, Tim Mcintyre-Bhatty (External), Bob Reed (LLB Rep)

37. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

RECEIVED and CONFIRMED: Minutes of the meeting held 16th December 2004

38. MATTERS ARISING FROM MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

No matters arising.

39. EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

Nothing to report. The plan is now on the web pages.

40. SCHOOL RISK REGISTER
It was decided to change Head Hunters to Recruitment Consultants. No other changes required.

41. EXTERNAL EXAMINERS REPORTS

John Strawson to chase up Professor Tony Carty for his final report on the LLM.

42. AWARD PRIZE IN MEMORY OF SUSANNA OWEN

42.1 It was agreed to award a Mooting Prize in memory of Susanna Owen.

42.2 It was felt a tree in memory of Susanna should be planted at the University
House site.

43. PSYCHOLOGY & CRIMINOLOGY PROPOSED PROGRAMME

Maurice Moore and Andrew Silke are to liaise with the School of Psychology over the proposed programme.


44. REPORTS
44.1 Report from the Head of School

Staff were reminded that the Institutional Audit would be taking place shortly and that the audit team would be meeting with senior UEL staff soon.

The Chair in Human Rights is to be re-advertised.




44.2 Report from Law Field Leader

Nothing to report.

44.3 Report from Criminology Field Leader

Nothing to report.

44.4 Report from Masters Programme Leader

John Strawson is to organise a meeting with interested members of staff to discuss the new programme: International Law and Criminal Justice.

44.5 Report from the Combined Honours Leader

Apologies received from Jane Pickford.

44.6 Report from the ILEX Leader

Parveen Teji from Ilex was unable to attend. Ian Stirk said that he was very unhappy with ILEX, who had not promoted the programme at all, e.g. there is no link to our webpage. It was agreed that we wait for ICS’s decision about taking over the programme before considering our own position.

Students are not engaging with the webpage by answering set questions. It was noted that Medicine and the Law did very well last semester with two first class passes.

45. PROGRESS REPORTS FROM SCHOOL COMMITTEES

45.1 Report from the Quality Leader

School Quality Sub-Committee Meeting was held in December, where the REP reports were approved. The Overview report was approved by VRSC last Wednesday 26th January.

45.2 Report from the Leader in Learning and Teaching

The Learning and Teaching Committee met on 13th January. The draft version of the School Policy on new staff induction was discussed and certain changes of wording were agreed.

The Peer Observation Overview Report for last year was discussed. Issues relating to teaching rooms in Duncan House, were mentioned, in relation to size and type of room available such as seminars in DH001.

Issues regarding the mentoring policy for new staff were raised and these were to be discussed at the next School Board.


45.3 Report from the Research Leader

Hilary Lim and Siraj Sait’s funded research continues to proceed well.


45.4 Report from the School’s Leader for Equality and Diversity

Some members of staff have complained about the quality and structure of training programmes, for example the Equality and Diversity workshop. The programme should use people with expertise in the field and knowledge of staff from the Law School could be utilised.



46. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

46.1 The School of Computing and Technology is to use rooms in Duncan House for
evening classes.

46.2 Paul Kiff is on a temporary contract. Arrangements will be made for staff to cover Pete Fussey’s modules in Criminology from September when he is on unpaid leave.

46.3 With immediate effect when staff take time off work (except for sickness or on compassionate grounds), it will be treated as annual leave or they will loose the appropriate amount of pay. This policy applies across UEL.

46.4 Library – John Strawson reported that there was an increased budget for books.
46.5 There will be a postgraduate visit to New Delhi and about five LLM students are due to take part.

47. DATE OF NEXT MEETING

13th April 2005, 2.00 pm

Vickie Said:

I live in Enfield. Wondering how to travel to East London University to get to the Docklands Campus.?

We Answered:

You can catch the overground service to London Liverpool Street, take the central line one stop to Bank and then change onto the DLR to Cyprus station

Byron Said:

Is it true that Metropolitan University London and East London University suck?

We Answered:

Yes. According to the Guardian newspaper, they are the worst in the UK. 117th and 118th out of 118.

Marjorie Said:

Is east london university a good school?And is east london a good place to live?

We Answered:

i would not recommend this university i was there for three years, did not have a good time in the last two years of psychology although the psychology department is very good the area is better now than before although i came from harrow which is posh compared to stratford, it said in the hand book not to cause any distress to any student or they will be told to leave, well the head did not want to do any thing and there was a psycho on the loose in the university that wanted me to go and did any thing possible even tried to fool every one.