Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L01973:reg:11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L01973
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 11
Character Range: 9450–12282

11      Examiners etc.

(1)    The Delegated Authority must, at the commencement of the semester or trimester in which coursework is offered and in writing, appoint a Chair of Examiners and at least 1 other examiner, for the coursework.

      (2)    The Delegated Authority may, in writing, at any time appoint an additional examiner or additional examiners of the coursework.

(3)    The Chair of Examiners for coursework must:

(a)    ensure that the academic performance of each student attempting the coursework is adequately and fairly assessed; and

(b)    ensure that no student is failed in the coursework unless the student's performance in assessments in the coursework has been reviewed by at least 2 of the examiners appointed for the coursework; and

(c)    submit to the examiners' meeting for the coursework a written report setting out, for each student examined, the marks and the grade of result that the Chair recommends be awarded to that student.

(4)    Before submitting recommendations under subsection (3)(c), the Chair of Examiners may require a student to take a further assessment to ensure that the academic performance of the student in the coursework is adequately and fairly assessed. The further assessment may be oral, written or practical.

(5)    The Delegated Authority must ensure an examiners' meeting is held to consider reports on marks, grades of results and further assessments required by the Chair of Examiners, and to moderate results.

(6)    Before submitting recommendations to the examiners' meeting for coursework, the Chair of Examiners must:

(a)    permit full-time members of the staff who participated in the teaching of the coursework to examine and comment on the recommendations; and

(b)    take into account any matters that they put to the Chair.

(7)    The Chair of Examiners must make final marks and a grade of result recommended for award to each student for the coursework available to the Delegated Authority for the Delegated Authority's approval.

(8)    The Delegated Authority may approve, for a student for the coursework:

(a)    the marks and the grade of result recommended or amended by the Chair of Examiners; or

(b)    in exceptional circumstances, marks and a grade of result that are different from the marks and the grade of result recommended or amended by the Chair of Examiners.

(9)    After the Delegated Authority has approved the results for the coursework for release, the Delegated Authority must send the results to the Registrar.

(10)    The Registrar must publish the results in the coursework.

(11)    In this section:
publish: to remove any doubt, publish includes publish electronically in an appropriate part of the University's website, including a part of the website accessible only to a student whose results are published.