Our boards and committees
A number of boards and committees report into our Trustee Board. They make decisions on the finer details of our activities as we respond to the evolving world of IT.
Boards
Three boards feed into the Trustee Board, each one led by an elected Vice-President.
Our aim is to help the public understand the digital world by advancing computing education. This board puts in the groundwork to make computing education effective for everyone, from ensuring every child learns about computer science to helping teachers engage students, and supporting scholars and researchers.
It does this with the help of the following sub committees and groups: Academic Accreditation Committee; Academy Prizes Committee (TBC); CAS Education & Community Board; Turing Lecture Committee; Schools & Colleges Committee (formerly School Curriculum and Assessment Committee); Scottish Computing Education Committee; Northern Ireland Computing Education Committee; Wales Computing Education Committee; England Computing Education Committee.
Being a BCS member has many great benefits, not least as a marker of your professionalism, and this board is responsible for ensuring it brings value to everyone. It helps us to grow our membership and member groups, and to make sure you’re fully supported and guided as a member.
The following committees help the Community Board to improve all aspects of our membership:
- Finance Committee
- Community Support Committee
- Fellowship Committee
- Early Careers Executive
- Faculty of Health and Care
- Fellowship Technical Advisory Group (F-TAG)
The following working groups report to the Community Board:
- Code of Conduct Review Working Group | Terms of Reference
- Recognition and Awards Working Group | Terms of Reference
This Board has a focus on how BCS most effectively influences in support of its strategic objectives. This includes how the Institute identifies and tackles the big issues facing our digital lives and to make sure the Institute is connecting industry, education and government to shape and bring about impactful change on society and our profession.
Its aims include encouraging and enabling member input and engagement to the Institute’s influencing work and its specific themes of focus, directly and through the community of BCS groups.
Committees
There are also four committees that report directly into our Trustee Board.
To make sure we’re always well managed in a sustainable way, our nominations committee helps us decide who to elect in certain positions and who to award.
They make recommendations for the following roles and accolades; Presidents, Deputy Presidents, Vice Presidents, Chief Executive, Distinguished Fellows and individuals they believe are deserving of public honours.
This board makes sure our finances are all in check. It makes sure our statements are correct, oversees all audit activities and reviews our financial and risk management policies.
This committee oversees the regulation of our professional standards, CITP and RITTech, and our membership admissions. It also ensures we meet our obligations to the regulators of the other professional registrations we award.
This delegated committee decides the pay and salary increases for senior executives.
