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Faculty Examiners' Meetings

Powers

In respect of undergraduate Final Examinations and postgraduate Examinations

to recommend to the Senate results for awards

to receive and consider recommendations in respect of aegrotat awards

to receive recommendations from the Special Cases Sub-Committee of the

Programme Examiners' Meeting that a candidate be deemed not to have sat

In respect of undergraduate Part 1 and Part 2 examinations

to determine results for progression to the next Part of a programme

to consider, through its Special Cases Sub-Committee, mitigating

circumstances and, on the basis of evidence of mitigating circumstances, to

determine whether a candidate be deemed not to have sat, a candidate be

given a higher result than the set of marks imply (in which case the

recommended result should be specified), a mark for a module be referred for

review to the module convenor, or no action be taken

Membership

The membership of the Faculty Examiners' Meeting comprises the Dean of the

Faculty (or a designated alternate, normally the Teaching and Learning Dean

(Chair), the Teaching and Learning Dean, all Internal Examiners for programmes

within its purview, and Programme Directors.

External Examiners have the right to attend and to participate in meetings

responsible for making awards, but are not required to do so. The Examinations

Officer and the Faculty Manager or Faculty Director of Administration of the

Faculty shall attend the meeting.

Quorum

A Faculty Examiners' Meeting shall normally be deemed inquorate where a

School/Department responsible for a programme under consideration is not

represented by an Internal Examiner. Exceptionally, with the agreement of the

Chair, an alternate may attend in place of an Internal Examiner; or the Chair may

act on behalf of a Department.

In the event that a Meeting is inquorate, the Meeting should be postponed and

reconvened at the earliest opportunity. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor [Teaching and

Learning] should be informed.

Procedures

The dates of Faculty Examiners' Meetings are published in the University

Calendar and in the University Examination and Assessment Procedures Handbook,

Section 1.