Adopted by the University’s Academic Committee on 17 August 2007, with amendments adopted by the University Board on 7 March 2018 and amendments adopted by the University’s Education Committee on 28 May 2026.
1. The Programme Committee/PhD Programme Committee shall contribute to the development of the degree programme and the students’ overall learning environment by:
a) evaluating and contributing to the further development of the degree programme in line with the university’s quality assurance system, and providing input to the annual programme report
b) commenting on the curriculum and any amendments thereto prior to consideration by the Faculty Board/Board of Teacher Education Programmes
c) raising and commenting on academic, organisational and administrative matters of significance to the degree programme
d) raising matters concerning various aspects of the students’ physical, psychosocial, organisational, digital and pedagogical learning environment
The Faculty Board/Board of Teacher Education or the Dean may assign additional tasks to the programme councils/PhD programme councils.
2. Composition, term of office and appointment
a) The programme council is chaired by the programme director/head of studies/PhD programme director and shall otherwise comprise the following members:
- At least two academic staff members who teach on the degree programme.
- At least one student representative per cohort for Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes. For PhD programmes, a student representative and at least one PhD candidate shall also participate.
- For Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes, there may also be a representative from relevant sectors of the labour market.
- For degree programmes with framework-based work placements, there shall normally also be at least one representative from the field of practice.
b) The Faculty Board/Board for Teacher Education may lay down further requirements regarding composition beyond those set out in the preceding point.
c) The term of office for academic staff and external representatives is two years.
d) The term of office for student representatives and PhD candidates is one year.
e) The Faculty Board/Board for Teacher Education appoints the members of the programme councils/PhD programme councils.
3. Organisation of programme councils
All bachelor’s and master’s programmes shall normally have their own programme councils. At PhD level, there shall be a PhD Programme Council for the faculty programme. The Faculty Board may delegate tasks from the PhD Programme Council to a PhD Specialisation Council.
The Faculty Board/Board of Teacher Education may itself decide that there shall be a joint study council for several degree programmes.