Academic Regulations for first degrees and ... - Heythrop College

APPENDIX D:
APPLICATION FOR DEFERRED ASSESSMENT (Regulation 13)
Summary and context within the regulations
1. Students registered on both undergraduate and taught postgraduate
programmes are required to be assessed in each module in the year in which
they study that module. The regulations make the following provisions:
• If any assessment task required to pass the module is not submitted by
a deadline or extended deadline (or, for UG Students within the
“penalty period” after the deadline defined in Regulation 30.4), a mark
of 0% is recorded for the assessment task in question.
• The Undergraduate or Postgraduate Administrator may agree extended
submission dates for coursework for up to a total of 10 College working days (for
UG modules).
• There is no provision in the regulations for the Undergraduate
Administrator or Postgraduate Administrator to agree an extended submission
date for an end-of-year essay, Undergraduate Dissertation or Postgraduate
Dissertation. The deadlines for all of end-of-year essays essentially have the
same status as an examination date: a later date cannot be negotiated , but
may be permitted through the deferred assessment procedure described here.
• Full-time undergraduates must have passed at least three modules (or
equivalent in half modules) to progress from year 1 to year 2, and at least seven
modules (or equivalent) to progress to the final year of the programme. Consent
will not normally be given for a student to defer to the next academic year any
part of the assessment of more than one module (or equivalent in half modules):
if, exceptionally, this is necessary, the student will normally be required to
interrupt his or her studies until the deferred assessment is complete and its
outcome is a pass. Deferred assessment dates are normally within the same
academic year, in such a way that the outcomes may be determined before the
start of the next academic year. Where there is good reason, however, deferred
assessment for all or part of ONE module, to take place in the next academic
year, may be permitted, and the student may be allowed to continue to the next
year of the programme, subject to having passed the other modules.
2. The Deferred Assessment procedures can therefore be used for:
(a) End-of-year assessment (whether exam, essay, Dissertation);
(b) UG Coursework which a student is unable (for good and unforeseen reason)
to submit within any extension period which the Undergraduate Administrator can
authorise.
(c) PG Coursework which a student is unable (for good and unforeseen reason)
to submit within any extension period which the Postgraduate Administrator can
authorise.
Procedure
3. Students are encouraged to discuss with UG Personal Tutors or with PG
Convenors the circumstances which cause them to seek deferred assessment,
and the options open to them, but they are not required to do so before making
the application.
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