Information for Staff
The Examinations and Assessment Handbook
The Handbook comes in 30 sections and outlines all the procedures to do with Examinations and Assessment in the University. If there's anything you still can't find the answer to, please contact the Exams Office and we'll point you in the right direction.
External examiners
Visit the page on external examiners for information about their roles, nomination and appointment.
Extenuating circumstances procedures: information for staff
The rules around the consideration of extenuating circumstances were tightened up in 2010 and the guidance to students was made more explicit. Visit the extenuating circumstances procedures: information for staff page to find out more.
Rules for the formatting of exam question papers
The document explaining how University examination question papers must be laid out is emailed to Examinations Representatives and School/Department Secretaries each January. The document is also available to download here:
Exam paper setting memo 2012 (PDF - 608KB)
Template for taking minutes of Programme Examiners' Meetings
It is a University requirement that minutes are kept of Programme Examiners' Meetings. The template below offers guidance on the minimum information which should be included in Minutes of Programme Examiners' Meetings:
Template for the Minutes of a Programme Examiners' Meeting (PDF - 115Kb)
Timetabling Requests
If you have any requests for modules which must be synchronised or scheduled for a particular slot in the examination timetable, it is important that you notify us as early as possible. Timetabling for the summer exam period begins in early February each year.
We do our best to accommodate all requests, but sometimes conflicting demands and timetable constraints mean we cannot meet everyone's requirements and therefore we can offer no guarantees.
The finalised summer exam timetable will be published in late March/early April. The resit timetable will be published in early August.
If you have any timetabling requests for the Summer exam period, please notify Lesley Foulger before 27 January 2012.
If you have any timetabling requests for the August/September resit exam period, please notify Lynsey Harris before 16 July 2012.
