The deans establish one or more Study Boards that include one or more education programmes or education programme components. The Study Boards help to ensure the rights of the students and the academic staff and their participation and involvement in matters related to education and teaching. The Study Boards are responsible for the planning, the delivery and the development of education programmes and teaching. The Study Boards will be given the opportunity to express their opinion about general examination rules, marking, teaching and credits as well as all matters of significance to education programmes and teaching.
The tasks of the Study Boards include:
- To quality assure and develop the quality of education programmes and teaching. This includes involvement in the evaluation of education programmes and teaching and ensuring that a follow-up on these evaluations is conducted
- To ensure that the delivered teaching and the examination requirements are commensurate with the objectives of the education programme and the specified examination regulations
- To prepare proposals for the curriculum and changes to it
- To ensure that the individual parts of the education programme are coordinated so that the individual subjects or disciplines are not subject to amendments to an unreasonable extent
- To approve the head of studies' plan for the organisation of teaching and of examinations and other assessment that are included in the examination, and in collaboration with the head of studies undertake the practical organisation of this
- To approve credit applications, including credit transferred in advance, and within the general guidelines give dispensation from 1) the Danish Ministerial Order concerning Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies at Danish Universities (Uddannelsesbekendtgørelsen) in accordance with its rules; and 2) the provisions of the programme regulations within the framework of the aforementioned Danish Ministerial Order
The Study Boards consist of a total of at least 4 and no more than 10 members. The number of members is determined by the dean of the faculty in question. The Study Board is composed of an equal number of members elected by and from the academic staff and correspondingly by and from the students. However, a maximum of five members are elected as representatives of the students, and if the representation of the academic staff is less than five, a correspondingly smaller number of students will be elected. From among its members, the Board of Studies elects a chair from the academic staff and a vice-chair from the students. The election of a chair and vice-chair is subject to the dean's approval. The academic staff serves on the board for four years and the students for one year.