Terms of reference

Duties

1. To establish criteria for recommendation to the Court of Governors, for selection and discontinuation of the full range of lay and honorific appointments within the School;
2. To search for those whom the School might wish to appoint to
   1. Lay Governorship
   2. Lay membership of the Council
   3. Honorary Fellowship• Honorary Doctorate
   4. Lay Chairmanships and lay membership of School committees and other bodies
   5. To establish and to oversee nominations procedures for Queens Honours.
3. To advise the Council about lay membership of its committees;
4. To advise the Court of Governors about lay membership of the Council and about such other grades or honorific appointment as the School may wish from time to time to establish and on the conditions under which such appointments might be held;
5. In the case of Governorships and lay Chairmanships and memberships of School committees and other bodies, to consider names which it might wish to elect or discontinue, and to make recommendations to the Court of Governors and such other committees as may be appropriate;
6. The Committee will bring to the Court recommendations in respect of the renewal or discontinuation of terms of office for incumbent Chairs and Vice Chairs, having taken such soundings as necessary to inform their recommendations.
7. The Nominations Committee would not interfere in Academic Board or Students' Union nominations.
8. The Nominations Committee makes recommendations to the Court on the full range of lay and honorific appointments within the School.

Status: Committee of the Court 

Secretary: Joan Poole 

Frequency of meetings: Three times a year - October, January and May 

Membership Structure

Ex officio Members: 

• Chairman of the Court of Governors (Chairman)
• The DirectorGeneral Secretary of the Students' Union Members nominated and appointed by the Court
  • Length of office: 3 years, renewable once 3 non-Council lay governors Member nominated by Council and appointed by the CourtLength of office: 3 years, renewable once
• 1 Council lay governor Members nominated by the Academic Board and appointed by the Court:
  • Length of office: 3 years, renewable once 
• 1 ex-officio academic member of Council
• 2 nominees of the Academic Board not on Court Members nominated by the Academic Governors and appointed by the Court
  • Length of office: 3 years, renewable once 
• 1 of the Academic Board nominated Academic Governors 

Revised March 2016