Menu ANNUAL REPORTS All external examiners are required to submit an annual report to Academic Governance and Policy as part of their role with us Submission deadlines for annual reports Initial Teacher Training courses - 31 July Undergraduate courses - 31 July Professional Master's courses - 30 November Master's courses - 30 November We'll send you an email before your annual report is due. Annual reports should be emailed to the Head of Academic Governance and Policy at externalexaminers@bathspa.ac.uk. The team will then copy reports immediately to Subject Leaders and all relevant staff. External examiners retain the right to send reports directly to the Vice-Chancellor. Report templates Copies of the below report templates are available by request from the Academic Governance and Policy team. Undergraduate report template Initial Teacher Training report template Chief External Examiner report template Postgraduate report template Content of annual report Introduction Student performance Marking and assessment Teaching, learning and curriculum Employability Strengths and areas for development Required areas Requirements for Chief External Examiners' reports How we use annual reports Annual reports are addressed through a feedback process that aims to keep external examiners fully informed of action taken as a result of their reports. The feedback process is as follows: On receipt, Academic Governance and Policy will acknowledge safe receipt of the report. It is then forwarded to the relevant subject leader and copied to the relevant Head of School for information. The Head of Academic Governance and Quality reads all external examiners' reports and makes comments or raises questions pertaining to the issues raised by the external examiner for the attention of subject leaders. Subject leaders are asked to write a response to their external examiner, advising of any action taken/to be taken (or reasons why action is not taken) on issues raised by the external examiner and Head of Academic Governance and Quality. This response is copied to the department. The Head of Academic Governance and Quality writes an overview report of all external examiners' reports which accompanies the annual reports to the University's Academic Quality and Standards Committee. Annual reports form an important part of the Academic Developmental reporting process undertaken by course teams. Chief External Examiners' results are circulated to external examiners within the relevant course team. The External Examiner's report will be published in full for all students to access as per Chapter B7, indicator 14 of the UK Quality Code. Students can also access comments made by the Head of Academic Governance and Quality and subject leaders' responses for subjects relevant to their course as this information is hosted on Minerva. School Boards are required to consider all external examiner reports and the subject leader's response for subjects delivered in their School. You might also be interested in ACADEMIC GOVERNANCE AND POLICY ASSESSMENT EXTERNAL EXAMINERS ACADEMIC POLICY HANDBOOKS Edit section | Website feedback to web@bathspa.ac.uk