Welcome to the Academic Office Home Page
Head of Academic Office Mr Alan Faulkner
The Academic Office has advisory and developmental
roles in relation to all aspects of academic policy, procedures and
regulations for taught award-bearing provision. The pages from the
Area Index provide detailed information.
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The Code of Practice for External
Examining of Taught Programmes of Study and nomination and
report forms have
been revised in line with Chapter 7: External Examining
(October 2011) of the new UK Quality Code for Higher Education. See External
Examiners
(January 2012)
There is a new report form for subject network examiners. (June 2011) |
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| Revised Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) Policy and Guidelines for Staff and Applicants are available here (July 2011) | |||
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The 2011/12 Revalidation Schedule is
available here. (July 2011) The 2011 Programme Approval, Management and Review Handbook and the Partnership Handbook are now available. Updated templates and forms are also available. See Documents and Forms. A new CA9 form has been introduced to support the recording of credit-bearing short courses on the Banner Student Records and Information System. |
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| The Evaluation/Revalidation Briefing Seminar Presentations are available: Programme; (1); (2); (3); (4); (5); (6); (7); (Oct 2011) | |||
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Assessment Handbook 2011 The 2011 edition of the Assessment Handbook has been published on the Academic Office website. The document is not being issued in hard copy to all staff as the changes from the 2009 edition are minor, to include Principles of Assessment and Feedback for Learning (1.3) and the revised Policy on the Accreditation of Prior Learning (13) approved in June 2011.
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Changes to the University's Regulatory Framework for Taught Courses (25 June 2009) A number of changes to the University’s regulatory framework have been agreed from 2009/10. These affect: These changes have implications for information provided to students and regulations for awards. For more information follow the links above. |
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Credit Levels (May 2009) Credit levels have been renamed from 2009/10 in light of the revised national Framework for Higher Education Qualifications published by the Quality Assurance Agency in 2008. There is no change to the level descriptors; only the titles are changed. The new levels and their correspondence to old levels are set out below: |
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| OLD | NEW | ||
| D (Doctoral) | 8 | ||
| M | 7 | ||
| 3 | 6 | ||
| 2 | 5 | ||
| 1 | 4 | ||
| A (Access) | 3 | ||
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Within University Access to Higher Education courses offered by Regional Colleges, levels 1 and 2 are also used for specific modules. |
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External Examiner Nominations (Oct 2011) The deadline for receipt of External Examiner nominations for 2012/13 appointments is 25 May 2012. |
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