The decisions register.
30 decisions, all of them in force, none outstanding. This page previously listed twenty-five as awaiting somebody with authority to say yes. It is kept in two groups because they took effect at different times, and a reader is entitled to see which rule arrived when.
25 decisions taken in one sitting.
Each had been drafted with a recommendation and carried as outstanding for months. Each was adopted on the recommendation as drafted, by the Executive of the College.
| Ref | Decision |
|---|---|
| A1 | Who may hold Administrator access |
| A2 | Who may hold Staff access |
| A3 | Bootstrap |
| A4 | Whether "employee with no learner access" needs its own role |
| A5 | Whether staff should hold financial and erasure powers |
| B1 | Pass threshold |
| B2 | End-of-level examination pass mark |
| B3 | Resit policy |
| B4 | Progression between levels |
| B5 | PART A / PART B examination convention |
| C1 | What a learner receives |
| C2 | What a certificate may state |
| C4 | The IEFC award architecture |
| C3 | Whether speaking assessment counts toward certification |
| C5 | Who may confer, withdraw and replace an award |
| C6 | Whether the browsable register is opt-in or opt-out |
| A6d | Mapping the curriculum to the competency framework |
| A6e | Restructuring rubrics to carry competency marks |
| C7 | The graduate profile: publication defaults |
| C8 | Study time on a graduate's record |
| A7 | Three institutional metrics have no instrument at all |
| C9 | Academic misconduct procedure |
| D1 | Learner voice recording retention |
| D2 | Erasure on request |
| D3 | Erasure against a permanent academic register |
These are decisions of the Executive, which is the College’s constituted decision-making authority. They were not taken by the Academic Senate or by BASCE, because neither body has appointed members. The academic items — the assessment standards and the credential rules — are therefore adopted subject to ratification by the Academic Senate at its first properly constituted meeting. That is recorded so the ratification can be a real act rather than a rubber stamp on something already described as senate policy.
5 taken before that.
| Ref | Decision | Adopted |
|---|---|---|
| G1 | Executive Portrait Policy | 4 Aug 2026 |
| G2 | Alumni Chapters | 4 Aug 2026 |
| G3 | Skill descriptors, not percentages | 4 Aug 2026 |
| G6 | The definition of the IEFC | 4 Aug 2026 |
| G5 | Principle of Institutional Verification | 4 Aug 2026 |
Two things a decision cannot manufacture.
Deciding something is not the same as being able to act on it, and the difference is worth stating in the same breath as the adoption.
No award, still
Adopting a pass mark, an honours scale and a conferral procedure makes the standard exist. It does not supply the External Examiner whose independence the standard rests on. No award is conferred until that appointment is made.
Two decisions say so themselves
Speaking is adopted as not yet counting toward certification, precisely because no moderated marking standard exists. The competency mapping is adopted as a commission for work that has to be done, not as a claim the work is finished.
A register nobody outside can read is an internal memo.
It shows what was settled, when, and by whom
A panel’s first question is which of an institution’s stated positions are actually decisions, and on whose authority. This answers both without them having to ask, including where the authority was executive rather than academic.
It shows which rules govern you
Every rule on this site now appears here as a decision with a date. Where a rule awaits Senate ratification, this page says so rather than presenting it as settled academic policy.