Appeals
The University has an appeals system as defined by the Academic Regulation on Academic Progress.
All appeals must be made within fourteen days of the publication of results. You cannot appeal against your semester one results at the end of session.
Appeals will only be considered if a student can provide good reasons why the grounds for appeal were not made known to the relevant Examining Board before it made its decision.
Students are entitled to seek verification of the fact that relevant circumstances which might have adversely affected their examination performance and which had been previously notified to departments were taken into account by the Examining Boards concerned.
In their own interests therefore students should make every effort to ensure that they inform their departments in writing before the meeting of the relevant Examining Boards of any factors which may have an adverse effect on examination performance.
It is the students responsibility to inform all their departments of special circumstances which may affect their work or progress. Failure to do so may have disastrous results for the student and only cause problems later. All such information will be treated confidentially and used to ensure the fullest possible consideration of your overall performance.
If students choose to keep such information from their departments, they cannot subsequently submit and appeal claiming they were embarrassed or did not feel it important. Appeals based on grounds which could reasonably have been notified to departments beforehand will be rejected. Students must keep their departments informed.
There is a slightly different procedure for appeals against the result of final degree examinations. Candidates must first seek verification of their result against the following criteria:
- The the assessment published by the University is free of arithmetical or other errors of fact.
- That the examiners were aware of exceptional personal circumstances reported by the student prior to the meeting of the Examining Board(s) concerned and which might in his/her opinion have had an adverse effect on his/her academic performance.
- That the examiners were aware of defects of irregilarities in the conduct of the examinations or in written advice relating thereto, when such defects or irregularities or advice can be shown to have had an adverse effect on the candidate's performance.
Evidence of exceptional personal circumstances not previously reported will not normally be accepted as the basis of an appeal unless there are good grounds for explaining why the student was unable to report them before the meeting of the relevant Examining Board.
Candidates may proceed to the formal appeal stage only after verification of their degree.