Amendments to reporting lines

​Council took note of the following changes made by management to reporting lines at the University:

1. The ten deans will now report to the Vice-Rector: Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies (VR:RIPS) instead of to the Rector as is currently the case. This will be piloted next year and will be reviewed in September.
2. Innovus currently forms part of the responsibility centre of the Chief Operating Officer (COO). However, the Vice-Rector: Learning and Teaching (VR:LT) will now be involved in the development of short courses by Innovus.
3. There will be no change at Innovus in terms of its other functions, i.e. technology transfer, the protection of intellectual property, and the commercialisation of other SU assets.
4. Since information technology is inherently part of the University's operations, IT will be moved from the responsibility centre of the VR:RIPS to that of the COO.
5. To allow for the establishment of a Division for Information Governance, the component of Institutional Research and Planning (IRP) that focuses on planning and data will move to the responsibility centre of the Vice-Rector: Strategy and Internationalisation. The component of IRP that focuses on academic programme planning and quality assurance will remain under the VR:LT, but will be reallocated to another division.
   
   These decisions will take effect on 1 October 2017 and are intended for full implementation from 1 January 2018. The changes will result in amendments to the Rectorate's delegation framework.