delegated to the staff is undertaken effectively and timeously. There was also the opportunity to allow Not all respondents Hopefully teaching and learning. Board/Committee members to comments answered this question. See Links to industry on what issues the Board/Committee should comments Providing courses that are sustainable occupy its time and attention in future and Need to get the strategy for the college implemented how the Board or Committee’s organisation and some actions and monitoring of outcomes put in and overall performance can be improved. We need to better understand and work with UHI. Getting an executive summary of reports. The idea of trying to reduce material whilst having sufficient information. We have an extortionate amount of time on Finance this past years with problems which are not of our making although current progress on this is looking positive. Consideration be to making reports available separately for the Board to read. Concerns that income generation is sufficiently embedded and there is appropriate level of expertise to develop new income streams beyond a wish list. Would have been good to have the time to get to know and appreciate the background, experience and motivation of essentially a new board. Finance and General Purposes Committee Specific questions were also asked about the Favourable responses were High confidence expressed in Chair of F&GP particular Committee’s roles and received from the 3 responsibilities. For example in the case of returned. the F&GP Committee the question was whether the Committee received relevant reports in order to be able to monitor and secure the economic, efficient and effective
delegated to the staff is undertaken effectively and timeously. There was also the opportunity to allow Board/Committee members to comments on what issues the Board/Committee should occupy its time and attention in future and how the Board or Committee’s organisation and overall performance can be improved. Not all respondents answered this question. See comments Hopefully teaching and learning. Links to industry Providing courses that are sustainable Need to get the strategy for the college implemented and some actions and monitoring of outcomes put in We need to better understand and work with UHI. Getting an executive summary of reports. The idea of trying to reduce material whilst having sufficient information. We have an extortionate amount of time on Finance this past years with problems which are not of our making although current progress on this is looking positive. Consideration be to making reports available separately for the Board to read. Concerns that income generation is sufficiently embedded and there is appropriate level of expertise to develop new income streams beyond a wish list. Would have been good to have the time to get to know and appreciate the background, experience and motivation of essentially a new board. Finance and General Purposes Committee Specific questions were also asked about the particular Committee’s roles and responsibilities. For example in the case of the F&GP Committee the question was whether the Committee received relevant reports in order to be able to monitor and secure the economic, efficient and effective Favourable responses were received from the 3 returned. High confidence expressed in Chair of F&GP
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