Academic Board

The Academic Board is the principal body of Sydney Met responsible for academic affairs, including academic quality and integrity as a whole. It approves academic proposals and for providing advice on academic policy, academic strategy, and academic standards. It oversees and monitors the academic activities of the College and has functions and powers relating to academic matters such as course development, accreditation, quality, integrity, and policy. The Academic Board advises the Chief Executive Officer and Governing Council on matters relating to teaching, learning, assessment, and scholarship, and makes decisions on delegation from Council.

The current composition of the Sydney Met Governing Council is below:

Name	Position
Professor John Loxton	Chair of the Academic Board (External)
Professor Manoranjan Paul	Deputy Chair of the Academic Board (External)
Dr Zeenat Mahjabeen	Member (External)
Dr Arash Najmaei	Member (External)
Dr Hemant Ojha	Member, Owner’s Representative
Prof Lynne Harris	Member, Ex-Officio: Executive Dean
Dr Linh Hoang	Member, Ex-officio: Head, Department of Information Technology & Engineering
Dr Adam Attar	Member, Ex-officio: Head, Department of Business Management and Entrepreneurship
Professor Sharon Moore	Member, Ex-officio: Head, Department of Social Work and Development
Ms Aastha Suwal	Member, Staff Representative
Mr Pradip Bohara	Member, Student Representative

The Academic Board (AB) has four standing committees:

AB Committees	Chair	Members
Teaching & Learning Committee (TLC)	Exec Dean Prof. Lynne Harris	Mr Md Badiuzzaman (Delegate for ITE), Dr Hui-Ling Wang (Delegate for BME), Mr Shay Gilbert (Delegate for SWD), Ms Ishrat Siddique (Chair of SESC), Up to two external members (Vacant), Ms Sejal Pradhan (Student Rep)(invited), Dr Ehsan Ahmed (CQO) (invited)
Board of Examiners (BoE)	Exec Dean Prof. Lynne Harris	Ms Ishrat Siddique (Registrar), Dr Linh Hoang (Head of ITE) Dr Adam Attar (Head of BME), Prof Sharon Moore (Head of SWD)
Student Experience Sub Committee (SESC)	Ms Ishrat Siddique	Ms Anjana Singh Shrestha (General Manager (or delegate)), Dr Ehsan Ahmed, CQO (invited), Student representative x2(Vacant), Student support and Services officer x2 (Vacant)
Research & Scholarship Committee (RSC)	Exec Dean Prof. Lynne Harris	Dr Linh Hoang (Head of ITE), Dr Adam Attar (Head of BME), Prof Sharon Moore (Head of SWD), Dr Fowzia Akhter (Academic Staff Representative), Another academic staff representative (Vacant), External member from another HEI (Vacant)
Course Advisory Committee (CAC)	Exec Dean Prof. Lynne Harris	Dr Linh Hoang (Head of ITE), Dr Adam Attar (Head of BME), Prof Sharon Moore (Head of SWD)
CAC Sub-committees	Dr Linh Hoang (Head ITE) Dr Adam Attar (Head BME) Prof Sharon Moore (Head SWD)	Internal subject matter expert(s) External academic(s) External industry rep(s)