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Annexes to the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes 2012-13

1. Glossary of terms
2. Dates for implementing new university policy
3. Regulations for specific programmes
4. Principles for designing and providing distance learning
5. Guidelines on the accreditation of prior learning for all taught programmes
6. University examination regulations
7. Policy for student transfer between undergraduate programmes and units of the University of Bristol
8. Guidance on establishing the grounds for granting a suspension of studies and subsequent return to study for undergraduate students
9. Guidance on suspension or extension of study for taught postgraduate students
10. Guidelines for programme directors
11. Guidance on disability equality and assessment
12. University code of practice for the external examining of taught programmes
13. Guidance for faculties on classifying extenuating circumstances
14. Applying Ordinance 18 with respect to final year undergraduate students who have not completed all required assessment for academic award due to extenuating circumstances
15. Guidance on the options available for boards of examiners where extenuating circumstances are present
16. Regulations for progression, the award of credit and re-assessment for undergraduate programmes - for students initially registered prior to 2011-12
17. Flow diagram of the options available for the progression of students on taught modular programmes – for newly registered students from 2011-12
18. Guidance for faculties on implementing the ‘supplementary year’
19. Calculating the unit mark, year mark, taught component mark and final  programme mark and degree classification in taught programmes
20. Agreed weightings, by faculty, to be applied for the purposes of calculating the   final programme mark and degree classification in undergraduate programmes
21. Applying accredited prior learning to the calculation of the final programme mark and/or the degree classification in modular undergraduate programmes
22. Dissertation guidelines for taught postgraduate programmes

Other associated policies / documents:

• Applying accredited prior learning to the calculation of the final programme mark and/or the degree classification in modular undergraduate programmes
• Approaches to Delivering Formative Feedback
• Forms of summative and formative assessment
• QAA Descriptor for a Higher Education Qualification at Level 7
• Programmes of the University of Bristol 2012-13
• Progression, the award of credit and re-assessment for undergraduate programmes - for students initially registered prior to the 2011-12 academic year
• Responsibilities of the Academic Registry in the Examinations Process