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2011-12 version of the Annexes

Annexes to the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for 2011-12

  1. Glossary of terms

  2. Dates for implementing new university policy

  3. Principles for designing and providing distance learning

  4. List of undergraduate programmes

  5. Regulations for specific undergraduate programmes

  6. List of taught postgraduate programmes

  7. Regulations for specific taught postgraduate programmes

  8. Forms of summative and formative assessment

  9. Approaches to delivering formative feedback

  10. Guidelines for programme directors

  11. University examination regulations

  12. Guidance on disability equality and assessment

  13. Guidance for faculties on classifying extenuating circumstances

  14. Guidance on student absence due to illness

  15. University guidelines for external examining

  16. QAA Descriptor for a Higher Education Qualification at Level 7 (external link)

  17. Responsibilities of the Academic Registry in the examinations process

  18. Guidance for faculties on implementing the ‘supplementary year’

  19. Flow diagram of the options available for the progression of students on taught modular programmes – for newly registered students from 2011/12

  20. Guidelines on the accreditation of prior learning for all taught programmes

  21. Guidance on establishing the grounds for granting a suspension of studies and subsequent return to study for undergraduate students

  22. Guidance on suspension or extension of study for taught postgraduate students

  23. Calculating the unit mark, year mark, taught component mark and final  programme mark and degree classification in taught programmes

  24. Guidance in respect of students who have not completed all required assessment for honours classification (in relation to Ordinance 18) and Ordinance 18

  25. Agreed weightings, by faculty, to be applied for the purposes of calculating the final programme mark and degree classification in undergraduate programmes

  26. Dissertation guidelines for taught postgraduate programmes