A change of supervisory arrangements may be instigated either by the student or a member of the Supervisory Team, in consultation with the relevant Programme Leader and all parties concerned. This should be noted at the relevant Assessment Board. 6.2.7 Responsibilities of the Supervisory Team and Responsibilities of the Student Programme Teams are required to develop a list of responsibilities of the Supervisory Team and of the student what can be discussed at approval/review. This should be clearly communicated to students, normally though the course handbook. 6.3 Requirements for the Advanced Independent Work [AIW] 6.3.1 Language of the AIW and oral examination Except with the specific permission of the Assessment Board, the AIW shall be presented and defended in the English Language. 6.3.2 Abstracts There shall be an abstract of approximately 300 words bound into the AIW which shall provide a synopsis of the AIW. Three loose copies of the abstract shall be submitted with the AIW which should have the name of the author, the title of the course on which the student is studying and the title of the AIW as a heading. 6.3.3 Acknowledgement of sources The AIW shall acknowledge published or other sources of material consulted, including an appropriate bibliography, and any assistance received. 6.3.4 Assistance and Proof Reading The AIW must be the student’s own work. It is the students responsibility to check the accuracy, grammar, spelling and referencing in the AIW before final submission. This requirement does not preclude the student from obtaining limited assistance with proof-reading and with the routine collection and/or processing of data under guidelines and instructions clearly devised by the candidate. When such help is obtained, it should be with the prior approval of the Director of Studies who must be satisfied that the spirit of the ‘own work’ requirement is not breached. If the student has a disability/specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia, the student should be encouraged to register with Disability Services at the earliest opportunity to enable consideration of their support needs to be undertaken.
notified to the student. This date is normally the date of notification of the outcome of the relevant assessment board. Amendments can constitute: spelling, grammatical, and/or typing errors; or they may take the form of re-ordering of material, or minor textual additions for further clarification of the research but which does not require further research to be undertaken. In such cases the amendments should be made within a period to be determined by the examiners up to a maximum of six months from the date of notification of the outcome of the relevant assessment board. The student shall submit the amended AIW within the time limit specified by the examiners. Non submission within the time limit specified shall result in the student failing the AIW. Following submission of the amended work, the Internal Examiner, in consultation with the External Examiner if requested, will confirm that the amendments have been completed to their satisfaction and the Chair of the Progression & Award Board will complete a Chair’s Action if an Assessment Board is not appropriately scheduled. Where the student submits the amendments but the examiners determine that the amendments have not been made to their satisfaction, at the discretion of the assessment board, the student will be given a further four weeks from the date of confirmation of this outcome to complete revised amendments. If the requirements are not met within that timeframe then the students will fail the AIW. If, due to adverse circumstances beyond their control, a student is unable to submit the amended AIW within the time limit specified by the external examiners, the student can request that these circumstances are taken into consideration by the University. In such cases, an application should be made using the Extenuating Circumstances Regulations (Taught Components and Programmes) (LINK). 6.6.5 Non-unanimous Recommendations Where the examiners’ recommendations are not unanimous, the Assessment Board may: a) accept a majority recommendation (provided that the majority recommendation includes at least one External Examiner); b) accept the recommendation of at least one of the External Examiners; or c) require the appointment of an additional External Examiner. In these circumstances, the feedback to the student may take longer than 14 days. 6.6.6 Appointment of Additional External Examiner