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the examination and dispatched to the nominated recipient. The Chief Invigilator
is responsible for providing with the script relevant information if the
examination was held under abnormal conditions or was subject to special
provisions.
University examinations shall normally be invigilated either by members of
academic staff or by external invigilators, approved by the Examinations Officer.
All invigilators shall be issued with guidelines/instructions.
Schools/Departments are required to ensure that a nominated member of
academic staff with responsibility for the paper can be contacted by phone for the
first hour of an examination. Contact details should be provided to the
Examinations Officer in cases where the member of staff cannot be readily
contacted through the School/Departmental office.
No candidate shall be permitted to enter the examination room more than half an
hour after the beginning of the examination, and no candidate shall be permitted
to leave the examination room until after the expiration of half an hour from the
beginning or in the last half hour of an examination.
Candidates are required to place their campus card or University access card on
the desk in written examinations for inspection by the Invigilator.
The Chief Operating Officer (or his representative) and the Chief Invigilator shall
have the power to exclude from the examination room any candidate using unfair
means in an examination and any candidate failing to conduct himself or herself
with propriety in the examination room.
Language of assessment
In respect of taught programmes, the language of assessment will be English
(except in the case of programmes involving modern languages or British Sign
Language, where teaching and assessment may be conducted in either English or
the relevant modern language/British Sign Language at the discretion of the
School). Any proposed variation from this convention requires the explicit
approval of the University Board for Teaching and Learning.
Use of dictionaries and calculators in University examinations
Dictionaries
Candidates may only take a dictionary into a University examination where
written permission has been given by the School/Department responsible for the
paper. Information on procedures to be followed in such cases is included in the
Examinations and Assessment Procedures Handbook, Section 11, and in Examination
arrangements: what you need to know.
Calculators
As a general university policy and subject to such exceptions as
Schools/Departments may specify, non-programmable scientific calculators are
normally permitted in examinations, but programmable permanent-memory
calculators are not normally permitted in examinations. Detailed information on
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