The rules and procedures relating to all assessed work, including written and oral examinations, coursework, essays, projects, dissertations, practical work and placements are set out in the appropriate web pages below.
These regulations are intended to provide effective mechanisms and structures to ensure that students are fairly and objectively assessed, whilst at the same time maintaining the University's high academic standards. Ignorance of these rules and assessment requirements will not constitute a defence in any disciplinary procedures for infringement.
If you have problems understanding the Assessment Regulations you can discuss this with your Programme Leader or Faculty Student Support Officer, or alternatively with the Advice Centre within the Students' Union.
The 2009/10 Assessment Regulations will apply to all assessment and re-assessment decisions that are made by boards of examiners for the 2009/10 academic year for new and continuing students at all academic levels. In other cases, students will be subject to the Assessment Regulations that were in force when decisions about their assessment or re-assessment were taken (which will normally be the 2008/09 Assessment Regulations). This distinction is significant mainly in those cases where level 6 students have been permitted, under regulation E.2.10, to repeat as if for the first time all of the units on which they were enrolled, without approved exceptional factors. Such students will not be subject to the maximum degree classification of Third Class Honours that is introduced in the 2009/10 Assessment Regulations.
Summary of amendments (2009/10)
2. Assessment Regulations for Taught Postgraduate Programmes of Study 2009/10
Summary of amendments (2009/10)
3. Summary of amendments to Appendices (2009/10)
Please note that it is intended to make revisions to the appendices marked (*) during the academic year 2009/10
| Appendices to Regulations for Programmes of Study 2009/10 | |
| Appendix 1* | Submission of course work and penalties for late submission |
| Appendix 2 | Procedure for students to disclose to Board of Examiners exceptional factors affecting their performance during written examinations or other forms of assessment |
| Appendix 3* | Procedure for the expulsion of students for academic reasons |
| Appendix 4 | Assessment arrangements for disabled students |
| Appendix 5* | Guidance notes on cheating and other forms of academic misconduct |
| Appendix 6* | Institutional scheme and tariff for dealing with cases of plagiarism |
| Appendix 7 | Procedure for the suspension and exclusion of students from programmes on grounds of professional unsuitability |
| Appendix 8 |
Academic Appeals (‘The Review Procedure’) |
| Appendix 9* | |
| Appendix 10 | Open professional Programme |
| Appendix 11 | Exchange Students |
| Series of criteria for Boards of Examiners | |
Criteria for application of condonement (Taught Postgraduate) |
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