An Appeal is made to the Appeals Committee of Academic Board if there has been an administrative error in the conduct of an assessment, application of the regulations or some other irregularity relevant to an assessment.
A Complaint would be made in respect of a students experience at University including the relationships with administration, any services, departments, the Student Union or discrimination issues.
No. The regulations do not permit an appeal to be made based upon the disagreement with the academic judgement of the Board of Examiners.
No. Disagreement with the academic judgement of an Examination Board regarding the marks for a piece of assessment is not a grounds for appeal.
If you wish to make an appeal you must submit a full written submission to the Complaints and Appeals Officer, Registry Services on the form "Submission of Academic Appeal" no later than 10 working days after the publication of results.
Documentation, or other evidence e.g. written information about an assessment, copies of the rubric of examination papers, must accompany the form.
The completed form and evidence should be submitted to the Complaints and Appeals Officer, Registry Services no later than 10 working days after the publication of results.
On receipt of your appeal, the Complaints and Appeals officer will forward the claim to the Head of Registry Services who will decide whether you have established grounds for an appeal. If the Head of Registry Services decides that there are no grounds for appeal you will be notified in writing and given reasons why.
Where grounds have been established, your appeal will be forwarded to the Head of Department or Director of the relevant Scheme concerned within 5 working days of receipt of your appeal. The Head of Department/ Scheme will respond to the Appeals and Complaints Officer within 7 working days of receiving your appeal. The Complaints and Appeals Officer shall either where the response accepts the students case, forward this, together with the student’s submission to the Head of Registry Services who will approve the appeal without a hearing. Or and in all other cases set up a hearing by the Appeals Committee.
A hearing will take place within 15 working days of the receipt of the response by the Complaints and Appeals Officer and you will be informed when and where this will take place.
On receipt of an appeal, the Complaints and Appeals Officer shall forward within 3 working days of the receipt the claim to the Head of Registry Services who will decide within 5 working days of receipt of the appeal whether there are prima facie grounds for an appeal (see 2.1 above). The student will hear this decision within the above timescale.
You can get help with your Academic Appeal from the Student Union representatives. Your Employee Union may not be aware of University regulations and may contradict procedures so seeking advice from them may not be useful.
