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Markers and personal tutors have the right to attend and to participate fully in
the consideration of marks and results, and should be encouraged to do so.
Quorum
A Programme Examiners' Meeting shall normally be deemed inquorate if fewer
than half the nominated Internal Examiners are present. Exceptionally, with the
agreement of the Chair, an alternate may attend in place of an Internal Examiner.
In the event that a Meeting is inquorate, the Meeting should be postponed and
reconvened at the earliest opportunity. In the event of postponement due to
inquoracy, the Dean of the relevant Faculty and the University Examinations
Officer should be informed immediately.
External Examiners are normally required to attend the Programme Examiners'
Meeting which considers results of students. In the case of Masters programmes
with small numbers of students, the Chair of the relevant Examiners' Meeting
may exceptionally agree that External Examiners convey their views to the
Examiners' Meeting by correspondence, provided they are available for
consultation by telephone or email. In the case of the unavoidable absence of an
External Examiner, the Chair of the relevant Examiners' Meeting may
exceptionally agree that External Examiners convey their views to the
Examiners' Meeting by correspondence, or email.
Procedures
Advance notice of a Programme Examiners' Meeting should be given to those
with a right to attend.
Information presented to the meeting and all discussion of candidates and results
is strictly confidential to the meeting and to those officers of the University who
have good reason to be provided with such information.
Examiners and those attending the Meeting are required to disclose to the
Meeting any conflict of interest. It should be noted that the University does not
permit any member of staff who is in an intimate relationship with a student to
be directly professionally involved in assessing or examining that student.
Provisions relating to such cases are included in the University Examination and
Assessment Procedures Handbook, Section 5.
The meeting is required to appoint a Special Cases Sub-Committee to consider
evidence submitted in respect of candidates' special circumstances. The Special
Cases Sub-Committee shall act in accordance with the 'Policy on and procedures
relating to extenuating circumstances', which can be found on the Exams Office
website.
The following documentation should be available to the meeting: the University-
wide Framework for Classification and Progression for First Degrees, and/or the Marking
Criteria and Classification Framework for Taught Postgraduate Programmes, the relevant
programme-specific classification conventions, marks lists, a report from the
Special Cases Sub-Committee on candidates considered in relation to medical and
other special circumstances, and a record of candidates, who, on account of
specific learning difficulties (e.g. dyslexia), have been recommended to receive
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