Overarching Remit for Boards of Examiners
A Board of Examiners is a body with membership approved by the relevant College whose role it is to take an overview of each student?s academic performance on a relevant course
or programme based primarily on assessment results, and to make a final academic judgement on the appropriate outcome.
In this light, the overarching remit of Boards of Examiners for Taught Programmes and
Courses should be:
1. to review periodically its own remit within the context of the University?s overarching remit and recommend any changes to the remit to the College for approval. The
College should determine the coverage of the Board?s remit~
2. to oversee the entire assessment process according to the University?s assessment regulations and the principles approved by the appropriate Board of Studies~
3. to ensure that suitably detailed marking criteria are prepared for every item of assessment under the authority of the Board~
4. to apply the University?s assessment regulations appropriately~
5. to take responsibility for looking at outcomes for students across all elements of courses or programmes for which the Board has responsibility~
6. to manage the outcomes of special circumstances committees appropriately~
7. to minute its decisions in accordance with current regulation and guidance and ensure that archives of its decisions/minutes and those of any of its subsidiaries are
maintained for an appropriate retention period~
8. to produce a set of outcomes appropriate to the examinations and to record and transmit these as required by regulations and procedures in force at the time.
