UK Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers

The UK Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers (ACDAP), is a committee within the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. It is responsible for considering applications for degree awarding powers and university title (DAP/UT), and providing confidential advice via the Board to the Privy Council. All applications for new universities must be approved by the Committee. ^[1]

Purpose

ACDAP is responsible for considering applications for degree awarding powers and university title (DAP/UT). No organisation may award degrees or call itself a university in the UK unless authorised to do so by the government via the committee. ^[2] There are three levels of DAP - Foundation, Teaching, and Research DAPs. It also oversees the criteria and scrutiny processes used to assess applications.

Membership

The Committee's membership comprises the independent Chair, two Board members, seven members with current or recent UK DAP experience, two members with experience within a professional body, one member with a background in College Higher Education and one student member. Two more members may added to the Committee to bring other relevant expertise.

ACDAP
Chair	Andrew Ramsay	Former Chief Executive Officer, Engineering Council [1]
	Professor Phil Cardew	Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Leeds Beckett University [1]
	Professor Aldwyn Cooper	Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, Regent's University, London [1]
	Dr Vanessa Davies	Director General of the Bar Standards Board [1]
	Charles Hunt	Vice-Chancellor, University College of Osteopathy [1]
	Anne Lambert	Board Member, Competition and Markets Authority [1]
	Professor Jane Longmore	Vice-Chancellor, University of Chichester [1]
	Professor Lorna Milne	Senior Vice-Principal (Proctor), University of St Andrews [1]
	Aaron Lowman	Academic Registrar, The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts [1]
	Dorothea Ross-Simpson	Head of Academic Quality and Student Conduct, Keele University [1]
	Professor Alan Speight	Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education), University of Hull [1]
	Jenny Taylor	IBM UK Foundation Leader, IBM (UK) [1]
	Philip Wilson
	Dr Steve Wright	Director of Higher Education, Nelson and Colne College [1]

References

1. "Advisory Committee on Degree Awarding Powers". 12 September 2018. Archived from the original on 12 September 2018.
2. "Degree awarding powers and university title". Qaa.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2014.