Page 4 - FP Newsletter January 2020

COMMITTEE FOCUS

Foundation Program Academic Council (FPAC)

The Foundation Program Academic same level of support as other
Council (FPAC) is the program’s main students; Overseeing a massive pro-
decision-making body, meeting to gram restructuring in which A2
discuss and decide upon key or urgent content was frontloaded to Level 1,
issues. Highlights of the committee’s thereby opening up Level 3 to the
activities this term include: Finding a IELTS-specific Mindset textbook so
workaround for a supplier shortfall in that all students exit the FP at IELTS
the new Unlock 2nd edition textbooks; Band 5.0 or higher; Reviewing progress
Establishing the Evening Student Sup- on addressing OAAA affirmations and
port subcommittee, which ensures that recommendations; and Founding the
evening students have access to the new Muraje’a Centre.

Health & Safety

The Health & Safety (H&S) Committee Drive with the collaboration of Sultan
has a chair and two other members. Qaboos Hospital and the partnership of
Our mission is to instill and maintain a the College of Commerce and Business
culture of H&S awareness and practice Administration, College of Arts and
among all General Foundation Pro- Applied Sciences, and College of
gram stakeholders through activities Engineering on 30 October. This term,
and workshops, in order to promote a we are planning to do an awareness
healthy workplace and to minimize campaign about Diabetes - Prevention
H&S incidents on site. Our goal is to and Care by inviting a guest speaker to
implement Dhofar University's Heath give a speech about this current health
& Safety Policy. We conducted a Blood issue.

Risk Management

The mission of the Risk Management once a year, whereas student aware-
Committee is to assess and foster ness activities are each term and
awareness of risks faced by the piggyback Class Representative
Foundation Program in order to meetings. The committee reviews
minimize the risks and strengthen the feedback from each term to incor-
Risk Management System in the porate into subsequent awareness
Foundation Program. The committee events and updates the Risk register
organizes awareness activities for two and Risk forms. The updated Risk
stakeholders: faculty and students. register and forms are delivered to
Faculty awareness events are held individual risk owners.

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