Regulations

Updated regulations

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

Taught assessment

Amendments to the regulations focus on clarifying expectations around issues such as: rescheduling assessment due to religious observance; resit attempts for visa-holding students; when Boards of Examiners can reconvene to consider Exceptional Circumstances. The Key Changes document below provides a full list of the amendments.

The regulations will be published on 21 September.

Postgraduate research assessment

Minor amendments to regulations around conflict of interest; schedules of adjustment and annual reviews; borderlines on MSc by Research programmes. The Key Changes document below provides a full list of the amendments.

The regulations will be published on 1 August.

Degree regulations

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

DRPS 2026/27

Undergraduate

Regulation 33 has been amended to state that former students may apply for readmission where they have been excluded due to debt, non-matriculation, or lack of visa permission, provided that they were in good academic standing at the point of exclusion and the issue has been resolved. The full list of Key Changes is available below.

Postgraduate

Regulation 45 regarding reinstatement has been updated in line with the changes to the Undergraduate Degree Regulations relating to readmission. There has also been an update to regulation 16 (Recognition of Prior Learning), relating to situations where students take courses as Postgraduate Professional Development, and subsequently gain RPL for these as part of a full programme. 

The full list of Key Changes is available below.