The University’s Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes will apply for the 2022/23 academic year, apart from where it is temporarily qualified as below.
Approach and temporary academic regulations for PGT awards 2023 (PDF, 242kB)
This document sets out how the University will determine the award and classification of taught postgraduate programmes at the finalist exam boards for 2022/23 where assessment and/or the marking process has been affected by the industrial action in 2022/23, particularly where assessment and/or unit marks are missing as a result of the marking and assessment boycott.
Approach and temporary academic regulations for September 2023 (PDF, 294kB)
This document sets out how the University will determine the academic outcome of students on undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes at the September 2023 exam boards where assessment and/or the marking process has been affected by the industrial action in 2022/23, particularly where assessment and/or unit marks are missing as a result of the marking and assessment boycott.
Approach and temporary academic regulations for summer 2023 (PDF, 311kB)
This sets out how the University will determine the academic outcome of students on undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes at the summer 2023 exam boards where assessment and/or the marking process has been affected by the industrial action in 2022/23, particularly where assessment and/or unit marks are missing as a result of the marking and assessment boycott.
Addendum to the temporary regulations for progression in Law programmes 2022-23 (PDF, 271kB)
As a variation to the temporary academic regulations above (specifically the sections on progression in undergraduate modular programmes under stage 3 of academic mitigation and award/classification), this document sets out how the progression of students on undergraduate programmes in Law and progression of students and award/classification on the MA in Law programme will be determined at the summer 2023 exam boards where assessment and/or the marking process has been affected by the industrial action in 2022/23, particularly where assessment and/or unit marks are missing as a result of the marking and assessment boycott.
A summary of the key points from the temporary academic regulations
The temporary regulations should be read for the detail of how the key points will be enacted.
1. The arrangements and temporary regulations have been established to maintain and assure our standards whilst still allowing the determination of student academic outcomes.
2. We do not expect the majority of students’ academic outcomes to be affected. Where there has not been an academic impact or any impact has already been mitigated, students will be considered as normal with our usual academic regulations applying. For example, if students fail to meet the requirements for progression or award on units unaffected by industrial action, then they will be required to undertake reassessment as usual.
3. We will try and make decisions about awards and progression on our normal timescales, but we have created additional opportunities for decision-making where that is not possible.
4. We will use the temporary regulations where assessment or marking has not occurred but there is sufficient evidence to make a sound academic decision by way of a sequenced decision-making framework for exam boards to apply where it is needed. ‘Sufficient evidence’ means that students continue to meet the requirements for their award by demonstrating the learning outcomes for their programme and for professional accreditation where applicable. Principally, we can:
Exclude unit or assessment marks that are significantly affected by the industrial action when determining progression, award or classification.
5. Once previously missing unit marks become available, we will:
6. An institutional-level taught degrees examination board will be in place for faculty exam boards to refer complex cases.
A temporary qualification to section 20 of the Taught Code on exam boards applies from 7 February 2023 for the 2022/23 academic year (including those that relate to study in 2022/23 i.e. the exam boards following the reassessment period and the PGT final exam boards). It permits alternative arrangements to be made where a school or faculty exam board does not convene or does not have sufficient information to make an academic decision on its students due to industrial action or other reason, as follows:
1. The chair of a parent exam board* or nominee may direct the parent exam board to assume the responsibilities of the lower exam board and combine it with its own where the lower board does not convene or is unable to make academic decisions for the students under its jurisdiction within a reasonable timeframe. ‘Reasonable’ in this respect means where the exam board convenes and discharge its duties without causing delay to the determining of a student’s academic outcome (e.g. by reporting in time to the scheduled meeting of the parent exam board) unless otherwise agreed in advance by the chair of the parent exam board or nominee.
2. The quoracy for a faculty exam board should be set as three members of academic staff, notwithstanding any existing faculty policies on quoracy.
* for clarity, the parent board of the school exam board is the faculty exam board; and the parent board of the faculty exam board is the university taught degrees exam board.
