External Examiners
Trinity's External Examiners Policy for Taught Programmes ensures a transparent, consistent and effective external examining system at Trinity.External Examiners provide a valuable and objective perspective that contributes to the quality assurance of Trinity education programmes. The quality of the content, organisation and assessment of Trinity's programmes is maintained and enhanced, and the Trinity education is benchmarked to that of comparable universities.
Information on the nomination, examination, reporting and payment process at undergraduate and postgraduate level is available from the Trinity Teaching and Learning (TT&L) and the Graduate Studies websites.
The process of following-up on recommendations and recurrent themes/issues arising from External Examining at undergraduate level is managed by the Quality Office.
The External Examiner process facilitates continuous improvement of Trinity's taught education provision. Schools are required to minute key recommendations arising from the Courts of Examiners discussion regarding individual programmes for quality assurance/enhancement purposes. Upon receipt of the External Examiner Annual Report, Schools are required to respond to the External Examiner recommendations detailing their acceptance or a rational for non-acceptance of the recommendations and notify the External Examiner of changes that have been made.
At undergraduate level, recurrent or system issues are escalated to the Senior Lecturer by the Quality Office and a meeting with the relevant Head of School/Department and Director of Teaching & Learning is organised to discuss the report. At postgraduate level, following a review of the report by the Dean of Graduate Studies, Schools are asked to respond to the External Examiner and to the Dean on recommendations arising from the Annual Report.
Further details can be found on the External Examiners Webiste