The Computer Science Staff-Student Consultative Committee (SSCC)

Agenda for meeting to be held 1-2.00pm on Friday 28th November 2008 in MPEB1.20.

1. Apologies for absence.
   
   
2. Notification of any other business.
   
   
3. Approval of minutes of the last meeting on 18th February 2008.
   - Minutes should be signed by the chair and at least one student representative. 
   
   
4. Matters arising from last minutes:
   - Availabililty of printed lecture notes (Graham Roberts) 
   
   
5. Recruitment of a Student Green Champion to work with the Staff Green Champion (Lewis Griffin) 
   
   
6. a) Water replenishing, use & tidying of student common room (JJ Giwa)
   b) A budget for enhancing the common room (Jill Saunders)
   
   
7. First year issues (1st year reps) 
   a) COMP1007 lectures 
   b) Lack of demonstrators in lab sessions
   c) Setting of coursework on Sundays
   
   
8. DCNDS printer quota (DCNDS rep) 
   
   
9. MScSSE issues (MScSSE reps)
   a) The limited number of places at the "Trading and Financial Market Structure" module run by LBS and updating the on-line module description 
   b) GS02 Analysis and Design coursework
   c) Citigroup Summer project
   
   
10. MScVIVE issues 
    a) Lab v. lecture time for GI07 Mathematical Programming & Research Methods
    b) GI07 coursework
    
    
11. Availability of past exam papers (MScCS reps)
    
    
12. Fourth year issues (4th year rep)
    a) Grade translation for US study abroad students
    b) Return of COMP3005 Operating Systems from last year
    c) Maths in CS curriculum and COMP3006 Advanced Mathematical Methods 
    d) Module prerequisites need to be more specific 
    
    
13. Third year issues (3rd year reps)
    a) Keyboard cleaning in labs
    b) COMP3004 Computational Complexity slides and problem classes
    
    
14. Research student issues (research student reps)
    a) Contracts for temporary employment and vacation hours 
    b) Water machine for 7th floor
    
    
15. Any Other Business.
    
    
16. The next meeting is due in February 2009. In June 2009 there will be end of year wrap-up sessions for each undergraduate year, providing a forum similar to that of the SSCC.