Undergraduate Progression and Awards Regulations

Progression regulations should be standardised. Some variation may be appropriate to accommodate requirements from external professional and accrediting bodies.

Progression should be on an annual basis. Students are permitted to carry failed modules from semester to semester, but not from year to year. Students will receive provisional module results after Semester 1 for all modules completed and assessed during Michaelmas term. Courts of Examiners will convene after Semester 2 assessment and consider and confirm the results from both semesters.

All undergraduate programmes will be required to provide clear grade descriptors representing a pass. Progression threshold will not be higher than the pass mark in 4-year UG programmes.

• There should be a balanced credit-load across semesters.
• All modules and components of modules will be compensatable.
• The number of credits needed to pass a year is 60.
• 10 ECTS may be accumulated at ‘Qualified Pass’ (i.e. marks between 35-39% where the pass mark is 40% or 45-49% where the pass mark is 50% for some professionally accredited courses).
• If a student has achieved both Fail and Qualified Pass grades in modules completed in semester 1 and semester 2, they will be required to present for reassessment in all failed components in all modules for which they obtained either a fail grade or Qualified Pass. The reassessment session usually occurs at the end of August to coincide with the start of Semester 1 of the next academic year.
• There is no aggregation.

 Students will have their degree award calculated on their final two years’ results, weighted at 30% and 70% respectively.

The maximum number of years to complete an undergraduate degree will be 6 for a 4-year programme and 7 for a 5-year programme.

• Students are not permitted to repeat any academic year more than once and may not repeat more than two academic years within a programme.
• Repetition of a year is in full, i.e., all modules and all assessment components.
• A student’s academic record on their transcript will show clearly the time lost through repetition of a year.
• There will be an option to repeat a year on an ‘off-books’ basis.

• Same progression regulations, including compensation, for assessments relating to semesters 1 & 2 and to reassessment.
• Automatic right to reassessment for a student who has achieved a fail grade in any of their modules and is not eligible for compensation.
• Students (in all years) should only be required to re-sit examinations or re-submit coursework for failed modules or components thereof.
• Students are not permitted to present for reassessment in any module for which they have achieved a pass grade, in order to improve their academic performance.
• Rescheduled exams within the session will no longer be permitted.
• Different reassessment modalities permitted.
• No capping of marks.