Examining Process

Each collaborative centre shall establish an examining board or boards to consider results and make recommendations on candidates pursuing schemes leading to the award of undergraduate qualifications. For each final examining board there shall be: the Chair (appointed by the collaborative centre), who shall be a senior member of the academic staff; the External Examiners appointed as prescribed; the internal examiners and/or representative(s) appointed in respect of relevant modules by the collaborative centre; appropriate persons who may attend at the Chair’s invitation in an advisory capacity; and the adviser(s) or Moderator(s) appointed by the University (as observers only). A standard UW agenda is to be used.

For each taught Master’s scheme, a meeting of the examiners shall be held to determine the results of candidates in the examination component of the degree (Part 1) and, in particular, to decide which candidates may proceed to Part 2 (the dissertation component). The examining board for Part 2 for taught Master’s schemes will be held by correspondence and the outcomes can be reported at the next meeting of the examiners.

Prior to the Examining Board, the External Examiners will have been provided with a spreadsheet of results and the minutes of the internal examining board and will have scrutinised a sample of the marked assessed work.

All assessed work should be available for scrutiny by the External Examiner(s) prior to the formal examining board taking place. Ideally this should all be held in a ‘base room’, which should also include the assessment questions, model answers and module reports.

The official Notification of Results Form (NORF) completed at the formal meeting of the final examining board must be signed by the Chair and by all external and internal examiners present.