Chairs of boards of examiners#

The responsibilities for the chair of a board of examiners are set out in the University’s Learning and Teaching Handbook, Section 6.3.1.

The chair of a board of examiners shall be responsible for:

a) ensuring that the membership of the board, including the name(s) of the external examiner(s), is notified in writing to Student Registry prior to the start of the examination period each year;

b) convening such meetings of the board of examiners as may be required in connection with the general arrangements to be made for the examination of students or for the assessment of results;

c) ensuring that all necessary arrangements are made for sending examination papers to Student Registry;

d) for a subject board of examiners considering the marks for students whose progression, award and classification will subsequently be considered by another board of examiners (for example a faculty-level board of examiners, or a cross-department taught postgraduate programme), ensuring that its representative(s) to the other board of examiners is fully briefed on each student (particularly where there may be any question of considering a student’s position in the light of mitigating circumstances or other special factor);

e) ensuring that the relevant information is sent to external examiners / moderators, as outlined in the University’s Code of Practice on External Examining/Moderating;

f) agreeing with external examiners the principles for the selection of scripts to be sent to him/her;

g) ensuring that the required reports, as set out in Section 6.3.8 of the Learning and Teaching Handbook, from the board to Student Registry are made in a timely way;