University College London

Computer Science Department

Agenda for the SSCC meeting November 13th 2002

The meeting will be held at 1:00 pm in room 305, Pearson building.

  1. Apologies for absence.
  2. Notification of any other business
  3. Approval of minutes of the meeting of 27th February 2002
  4. Matters arising.
  5. Changes to representation on the committee.

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    General

  6. Late access to labs. (P Sinden)
  7. Food in labs (R Hirsch)
  8. Terms of reference for departmental Teaching Committee.  Student representatives should see a copy of the agenda for the TC and if there is an item of particular interest, you may ask the Chair of the TC for permission to attend.   If the agenda contains business that should not be discussed in the presence of student members, there should be a separate, Reserved Areas of Business section of the agenda.(J Saunders)
  9. Request for a replacement printer for room 208 (M Sewell)
  10. Items for sale.  Bulletin board for those interested in selling and buying personal items.  NB: no commercial ventures permitted on departmental facilities without prior permission of the head of department. (B Stein/R Hirsch)

    11.  

     

    Undergraduate Issues

  11. Improved facilities for CS common room (S Sharda)
  12. Request for "open options" for CS with EE students (Y Mauree)
  13. Fourth year timetable clashes (M Delacour)
  14. Lateness of lecture notes (M Delacour)
  15. Irrelevant postings to departmental mailing lists (M Delacour)
  16. Arbitrary nature of programme/non-programme options, and aim to get rid of rule against taking options out of year (A Chung)
  17. More coursework weighting for programming courses (A Chung)
  18. Is the Professional Issues course worthwhile (A Chung)
  19. Low quality of undergraduate course (A Chung).

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    MSc Issues

    Research Students
     

  20. Can we get rid of the "log books"? (M Sewell)
  21. Desks for Ph.D. students.
  22. "The PhD Programme in the Department of Computer Science"

    23. <URL:http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/students/programme.html> states that
    it is policy that "Full-time students get a desk."  With full-time fee-paying students being forced to share a desk, the above
    policy is not being enforced and I believe that it should be. (M Sewell)

    Any other business
     

    Robin Hirsch (Chair, SSCC).