This section gives information on a range of policies, protocols and codes of practice which have been endorsed by the Academic Standards and Quality Enhancement Committee (ASQEC), the Learning and Teaching Committee (formerly Teaching and Learning Committee), or the former Academic Policy Committee and its sub-committees, and approved by Senate.
Please note:
- the list below identifies the title of the policy and date of endorsement
- policies are also contained in other sections and in the Assessment Handbook
Raise a concern about a policy
If you believe a policy or a regulation within it is unworkable for your practice or is no longer fit for purpose please:
- contact your Associate Dean (Education) - if you work in a Faculty
- contact this office - if you work within Professional Services
- A
- Absence: Leave of (Policy)
- Absence: Notification
- Access: Age Regulation
- Access: Award Title
- Access: Exemptions
- Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL)
- Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) Policy
- Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL): Working Group Report
- Accreditation of Prior Learning: Guidelines for Staff and Applicants
- Admissions Procedures: Conduct of Interviews
- Admissions, Examining and Assessment, where a Member of Staff has a Personal Interest, Involvement or Relationship with a Student or Prospective Student (Taught Courses) Code of Practice
- Advisers of Studies
- Aegrotat
- Anonymous Marking of Coursework
- Anonymous Marking of Written Examinations
- Anonymous Marking of Written Examinations (Partner Institutions)
- Appeals
- Appeals Panels, Chairing
- Approval of New International Partners
- Archive of Assessment Material
- Assessment Criteria by Levels
- Assessment workload equivalence guide (revised 2018)
- Assessment, Principles of, and Feedback for Learning
- Assessment: Electronic Management of Assessment Policy
- Assessment: Student_in Times of Disruption
- Assessment: Workload and Equivalence
- Athletes, Elite (NOW 'Talented' 2013): Approved Absence and Independent Study Programme
- Attendance Protocol in Respect of Student Attendance
- Attendance: Notification of Absence
- Attendance: Student
- Automatic Progression from Semester 1 to 2
- Award Abbreviations
- Awards, Calculation of Summary Mark for
- B
- Boards of Examiners by Videoconferencing/Online
- Boards of Examiners: Extenuating Circumstances
- Boards of Examiners: Partner Institutions
- Boards of Examiners: Chairing
- Boards of Examiners: Confirmation of Awards
- Boards of Examiners: Disagreement
- Boards of Examiners: Minuting
- Boards of Examiners: Statistical Data
- C
- Career Development Learning Framework
- Carrying Failure
- Carrying Failure: Extenuating Circumstances
- Cheating, Contract
- Classification Boundaries and Borderline Candidates
- Classification Descriptions
- Classification of Awards: Bands in Undergraduate Programmes other than Honours Degrees
- Classification of Final Award: Weighting of Modules
- Classification of Final Results: Timing of Changes to Regulations
- Classification of Honours Degree: Classification Bands
- Classification of Honours Degree: Classification Bands (Repeating Students)
- Classification of Honours Degree: Level 5 and 6 - new algorithm 2018
- Classification of Honours Degree: Level 6
- Classification of Honours Degree: with more than 120 Credits at Level 6
- Classification of Integrated Master's Degrees
- Classification of Master's Degrees of More than 200 Points Value
- Classification of Taught Postgraduate Awards
- Cohort Sizes (Minimum and Maximum)
- Complaints (Student)
- Condonement
- Consequences of Failure: Discontinue Studies at the University
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Course Closure: Residual Obligations to Students in the Event of Course Closure or Termination of an Agreement with a Partner Institution
- Course File Archive and Syllabus Searches
- Course Handbook Template
- Course Revisions: Requiring University-level Approval
- Course Revisions: Scrutiny
- Coursework Submission Sheet
- Coursework: Ownership
- Coursework: Return
- CPD - Academic Staff: Code of Practice
- CPD - Business and Support Staff: Code of Practice
- CPD Policy
- CPPD
- Creativity and Innovation in Curriculum
- Credit Rating of Short Courses within the School of Nursing: Procedures
- Criminal Offences: Students
- D
- Data Protection Act: Retention of Data
- Demonstrating, Postgraduate Teaching Assistants
- Digital Learning Policy
- DipHE Award
- Disabled Students: Protocol for Identifying and Responding to Requests for Reasonable Adjustments
- Dissertations: Master's: Deposit in Library
- Dissertations: Word Limits
- Dissertations: Honours and Integrated Master's Degrees
- E
- E-Learning: Student Access to Completed Module Areas
- E-Learning: Tutoring on On-line Courses
- E-Learning: Code of Practice
- E-Learning: New Proposals
- E-Tutors: Code of Practice
- ECTS: Transcripts
- EDGE Award, Ulster
- Email Accounts (Students)
- Employability
- Employability Development Opportunities Review Tool (EDORT)
- Employability Journey
- Employment of Full-Time Students
- English Language Requirements for Admission (non-native speakers)
- Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship: Certifying Achievement
- Entry Requirements for Postgraduate Courses
- European Credit Transfer Scheme (ECTS): Transcripts
- Examinations, Supplementary: Timing (Placement Student)
- Examinations: Access to Scripts
- Examinations: Approval of Draft Examination Papers by Subject Partnership Managers
- Examinations: Dyslexic Students
- Examinations: Moderation of Draft Examination Papers
- Examinations: Retention of Material
- Examinations: Use of Calculators
- Examinations: Use of Dictionaries (Overseas Students)
- Examinations: Requirements at Level A/1 [3-4]
- Examinations: Semester 1: International Students
- Examinations: Semester 1: Timing
- Exit Awards: Combined Honours degrees
- Exit Interviews: Withdrawing Students
- Extenuating Circumstances
- Extenuating Circumstances: Principles
- External Examiners' Reports: Response to Reports (Partner Institutions)
- External Examiners: Attendance at Boards
- External Examiners: Extension of Appointment
- External Examiners: Payment of Fees and Expenses
- External Examiners: Access to VLE
- External Examiners: Induction
- External Examiners: Moderating Levels 3/4/5
- External Examiners: Moderation of Coursework Assessment Schemes
- External Examiners: Moderation of First Class/Distinction work
- External Examiners: Publication of Identity
- External Examiners: Report Form for Subject Networks
- External Examiners: Sharing of Reports with Students
- External Examining Arrangements Review (2011)
- F
- Faculty Partnership Managers: Role and Responsibilities
- Failure at the Final Attempt
- Failure: Repeated Assessments
- Fees: Postgraduate Courses
- First Sit of Semester One Assessment
- Fitness to Practise
- Foundation Degree Progress/Articulation
- Foundation Degrees: 2-Year, 3-Semester Model
- Foundation Degrees: Progression to Honours degrees
- Franchised Courses
- G
- Grade Point Average
- Graduate Diplomas/Certificates
- Graduate Qualities
- Group Work: Assessment
- Guidelines-to-Promote-Best-Practice.pdf
- H
- Higher Education Achievement Report
- I
- Induction, Retention and Progression Project 2003 - 2006: Report on TQEF-Funded
- Induction, Student: Guidelines
- Induction, Student: Writing and Referencing Skills
- Induction, Student: Transition Policy
- Internationalisation of the Curriculum
- Invigilation
- Irish Language/Ulster-Scots
- J
- Joint Awards
- L
- Learning and Teaching Charter
- Level 6 - 8 Modules in Colleges
- Linked Postgraduate Awards
- M
- Marks, Release of on Web
- Master's Degree: Full-Time: Attendance Requirements
- Medicine: New MBBS Award Regulations
- Moderation (Internal)
- Modular Structure: Combined Honours Degrees
- Module Database Deadlines
- Module Handouts/Teaching Plans
- Module Outlines, Communication of
- N
- Non-Award Bearing Programmes
- O
- Occasional Students
- Oral and Viva Examinations: Distinction [See also V]
- Oral Examinations
- Outcentre: Approval
- P
- Parchments and Transcripts
- Part-Time Lecturers and Recognised Teachers
- Part-time Study Definition
- Pass Mark for Level 6 Modules in Postgraduate Courses
- Personal Development Plans (PDP): Policy Statement [See also Progress Files]
- Placement Year: Grading
- Placement/Intercalary Year
- Placement: Policy for/Guide to Good Practice
- Placement: Health and Safety
- Placement: Indemnity
- Placement: Monitoring
- Placement: Non-Availability (Degrees)
- Placement: Non-Availability (Foundation degrees)
- Placement: Opportunity in Undergraduate Honours and Integrated Master's Degrees
- Placement: Planning (Academic) and Progression from Year 2
- Placement: Policy: Code of Practice
- Placement: Policy: Guide to Good Practice
- Placement: Professional Practice (Introduction of Diploma)
- Placement: Provider Approval
- Placement: Re-naming of University Placement Awards
- Placement: Self-Employed Placement Students
- Placement: Visits
- Plagiarism in Group Work
- Plagiarism Policy (2012)
- Plagiarism Policy, Procedures and Guidance (2012)
- Plagiarism: Extenuating Circumstances
- Plagiarism: Working Group
- Prerequisites
- Prizes: Reallocation
- Professional Development: Postgraduate Certificate of
- Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies: Protocol for Management of Links
- Programme Specifications
- Programme Specifications for Access Courses
- Programmes
- Progress Files
- PTLecturers-and-RecogTeachers.pdf
- Q
- QAA Code of Practice: Assessment
- QAA Code of Practice: Assessment Commentary
- QAA Code of Practice: Assessment Commentary
- QAA Code of Practice: Careers, Education, Information and Guidance 2010
- QAA Code of Practice: Collaborative Provision and Flexible and Distributed Learning
- QAA Code of Practice: External Examining
- QAA Code of Practice: Programme Approval, Monitoring and Review
- QAA Code of Practice: Recruitment and Admissions
- QAA Code of Practice: Student Appeals and Complaints
- QAA Code of Practice: Work-Based and Placement Learning
- Qualifications and Credit Framework
- Qualifications and Credit Framework
- Quality Code for HE: Chapter B2, Learning and Teaching
- Quality Code for HE: Chapter B6: Assessment of Students and Recognition of Prior Learning
- Quality Code for HE: Chapter B7, External Examining
- Questionnaire, Student: Assessment of Teaching
- R
- Receipting of Coursework
- Recognised Teachers
- Recording: Guidelines on Captioning
- Recording: of online lectures
- Regs-Templates-WG-Report.pdf
- Regulations: Foundation degrees: Two-Year, Three-Semester Model
- Regulations: Parity
- Regulations: Timing of Changes
- Research on Human Subjects
- S
- Safe Practice as Part of Clinical and Social Care Governance
- Semester Dates
- Short Courses: Accreditation
- Short Courses: Attendance Certificates
- Slow Tracking
- Small Group Teaching
- Special Educational Needs and Disability (NI) Order 2005 (SENDO)
- Special Educational Needs and Disability (NI) Order 2005 (SENDO): Draft Risk Assessment; Compliance Audit Tool
- Standards: Principles of Standards and Quality Management
- Student Experience: Key Principles
- Study Abroad: DIAS
- Study Abroad: Module
- Study Abroad: Policy for Quality Assurance in Respect of University or Other Study Experience outside the UK
- Study Load
- Study Skills: Support for Learning in Higher Education
- Supplementary Examinations
- Sustainability, Education for
- T
- Teaching Day: Extension
- Teaching Staff who are not Employees
- Teaching: Policy for First Year Undergraduate Teaching
- Ten Point Modules
- Timetabling Principles: Working Group
- Transcripts: For College Courses
- Turnitin: Guidelines for the Use of Turnitin
- Tutoring and Demonstrating by Postgraduate Students: Code of Practice
- U
- UCAS Asking Grades: Contribution of Step-Up and Elite Athlete Points
- V
- Viva Voce Examinations
- W
- Wednesday Afternoons
- Word Limits
- Work-Based Learning (Assessing): Guidelines to Promote Best Practice
- Work-Based Learning/Placement: Guidelines for Staff on Bullying and Harassment
- Work-Based Learning/Placement: Guidelines for Students on Bullying and Harassment
- Work-Based Learning: Compulsory
- Work-Experience-Sept-2007.pdf