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Academic Manual Structural Changes for 2022-23

Find out more about the structural changes to the Academic Manual 2022-23

The following table outlines all of the Structural Changes to the Academic Manual 2022-23 as updates to various procedures and inclusion of the new Student Support Framework has necessitated some movement of Chapters and Sections:

Chapter

Change(s)

New Location

Student Regulations for Exams and Assessments 

Moved into Chapter 4

Chapter 4, Part B: Student Regulations for Exams and Assessments
Teaching and Assessment Operating Model

Moved into Chapter 4

Chapter 4, Part C: Teaching and Assessment Operating Model
Covid Mitigation

Moved to bottom of Academic Manual front page to archive

Academic Manual Frontpage

Moved: Chapter 2: Qualifications and Credit Framework

Moved into Chapter 7

Chapter 7, Part A: Qualifications and Credit Framework

 

New: Chapter 2: Student Support Framework

New Chapter for 2022-23 containing all of the Student Support Framework

Chapter 2: Student Support Framework
Chapter 3: Registration Framework for Taught Programmes

Removed: Section 5: Interruption of Study

Interruption of Study is now incorporated into the new Chapter 2: Student Support Framework

Chapter 4: Assessment Framework for Taught Programmes

Moved: Section 4: Examinations into Chapter 4, Part B: Student Regulations for Exams and Assessments. Re-named as ‘In-Person Controlled Condition Exams’ to differentiate from Online exams.

 

Chapter 4, Part B: Student Regulations for Exams and Assessments

 

Removed: Section 5: Reasonable Adjustments

 

 

Now incorporated into the new Chapter 2: Student Support Framework

 

Removed: Section 6: Extenuating Circumstances

Now incorporated into the new Chapter 2: Student Support Framework
New Section 8: Deferred Assessment (moved out of previous Extenuating Circumstances procedures)Chapter 4, Section 8: Deferred Assessment

Archived: Section 15: Classification for Continuing Undergraduate Students

Archive

Chapter 6: Student Casework Framework

Renamed Section 3: ‘Learning Agreements, Barring, Suspensions & Terminations of Study’ changed to ‘Academic Insufficiency Procedure’

Chapter 6, Section 3: Academic Insufficiency Procedure

New section 4: Mandatory Faculty Interviews (moved out as own section from ‘Learning Agreements, Barring,  Suspensions & Terminations of Study’)

 

Chapter 6, Section 4: Mandatory Faculty Interviews

New Section 7: Academic Appeals Procedure

 

Chapter 6, Section 7: Academic Appeals Procedure

Removed: Section 2: Support to Study Policy

 

Now incorporated into the new Chapter 2: Student Support Framework

Removed: Section 3: Fitness to Study Procedure

 

Now incorporated into the new Chapter 2: Student Support Framework

Remaining sections re-numbered and re-arranged

Section 2: Student Disciplinary Code and Procedure in Respect of Students (was Section 8)

Section 5: Suspensions of Regulations Procedure (was Section 7)

Section 8: Student Complaints Procedure (was Section 10)

Section 10: Procedures for Students in Tuition Fee Debt (was Section 5)

Chapter 7: Programme and Module Approval and Amendment Framework

Existing Chapter 7 contents retained as Part B alongside Part A (see above)

Chapter 7, Part B: Programme and Modeul Approval and Amendment