Regulations

Key changes and updates to the assessment regulations, degree regulations and academic appeal regulations.

Updated regulations

Amendments to the degree and assessment regulations are highlighted in the key changes documents below.

Taught assessment

Amendments to the regulations are predominantly focused on offering greater clarity around issues such as: resit entitlement; group assessment and coursework extensions; resubmission of postgraduate taught dissertations consisting of multiple components. The Key Changes document below provides a full list of the amendments.

Postgraduate research assessment

We have clarified the parameters regarding repeat annual review for part-time students. The Key Changes document below provides a list of amendments.

Degree regulations

The Undergraduate and Postgraduate Degree Regulations are published on the Degree Regulations and Programmes of Study (DRPS) website.

DRPS 2024/25

Undergraduate

Regulation 22 has been amended to clarify that credit limits relating to Recognition of Prior Learning do not apply in cases where a student is transferring between degree programmes within the University. The full list of Key Changes is available below.

Postgraduate

Clarifications and amendments include the following:

  • Students on campus-based postgraduate taught  programmes are expected to study in-person during the dissertation period
  • The maximum period of interruption of studies on part-time continuous programmes lasting 36 months has been increased to 24 months

Information on changes is set out in the Key Changes document below.

Academic Appeal Regulations

These regulations have been reviewed and updated to provide greater clarity, especially regarding the following issues:

  • what decisions may and may not be subject to appeal;
  • the concept of “academic judgement”;
  • students’ responsibilities for their work, and when submitting an appeal;
  • grounds for appeal;
  • appeal outcomes.

The revised policy removes the option for cases to be handled by the full Appeal Committee, which was no longer used in practice and did not offer benefit to students appealing.

Student Appeal Regulations

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